Checkstep

Checkstep is a sophisticated AI-powered Trust and Safety platform designed to help online platforms, communities, and businesses maintain safe and compliant digital environments. By leveraging a powerful combination of artificial intelligence technologies, Checkstep automates the process of content moderation, enabling teams to operate with greater precision and scale. It provides an end-to-end solution that scans, enforces policies, and ensures compliance, all from a single, unified dashboard.

The platform is built on an innovative 'AI Marketplace' model, which means it integrates and selects the best-performing AI scanning tools from leading providers like OpenAI, AWS, Unitary, and Sightengine. This unique approach allows Checkstep to offer the optimal blend of accuracy, latency, and cost for each client's specific needs. It can analyze a wide variety of content formats, including text, images, videos, audio, GIFs, and even live streams, across more than 100 languages. This makes it a versatile solution for global platforms dealing with diverse user-generated content.

How to use Checkstep

Using Checkstep is a streamlined process designed for efficiency and ease of use:

1. Integration: Begin by integrating Checkstep's robust API into your platform. The integration process is designed to be quick and straightforward, often completed within a day, requiring minimal involvement from your engineering team.
2. Policy Configuration: Access the Checkstep dashboard to build and manage your content policies. You can define what content is permissible, configure rules for different types of violations (e.g., hate speech, spam, nudity), and set automated actions such as instant removal, suspension of a user, or flagging for human review.
3. Automated Scanning: Once integrated, all relevant user-generated content is automatically sent to Checkstep for analysis. The platform's AI engine scans the content in near real-time, identifying potential policy violations with high accuracy.
4. Enforcement and Review: Content that clearly violates your policies is actioned automatically. Ambiguous or edge cases, where the AI is less certain, are routed to a human moderation queue within the platform. This ensures that human moderators focus only on the most critical and nuanced decisions.
5. Monitoring and Reporting: Utilize the comprehensive analytics dashboard to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), track violation trends, measure moderator performance, and gain valuable insights into your community's health. The platform also automates compliance reporting for regulations like the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Core Features of Checkstep

• Multi-Modal Content Moderation: Scans and analyzes text, images, videos, audio, GIFs, and live streams for harmful content.
• Advanced AI Detection: Accurately identifies a wide spectrum of abuse types, including hate speech, bullying, harassment, misinformation, spam, CSAM, and AI-generated media like deepfakes.
• Unified Moderation Platform: A centralized hub for policy management, review queues, enforcement actions, and analytics.
• AI Marketplace Model: Dynamically utilizes the best AI technologies from various partners to optimize for accuracy, speed, and cost-effectiveness.
• Automated Compliance Tools: Features built-in solutions for global regulations, including automated generation of Statements of Reasons and Transparency Reports for DSA compliance.
• Moderator Well-being Protection: Automatically blurs or applies a greyscale filter to potentially disturbing content in the moderation queue to protect the mental health of human moderators.
• Insightful Analytics Dashboard: Delivers real-time insights into moderation activities, policy violation trends, and community health.
• High Scalability: Engineered to handle massive volumes of data, serving large-scale platforms with millions of daily uploads.

Use Cases for Checkstep

Checkstep is ideal for any platform that handles user-generated content, including:

• Social Media Networks: To create a safer user experience by filtering hate speech, graphic content, and misinformation.
• Online Marketplaces: To prevent fraudulent listings, scams, and the sale of prohibited goods.
• Gaming Communities: To moderate in-game chat and user-profiles to combat toxicity and cheating.
• Dating Apps: To protect users from harassment, catfishing, and inappropriate content in profiles and messages.
• File-Sharing and Cloud Storage Services: To automatically scan uploads for illegal and harmful material, ensuring platform integrity.

Advantages of Checkstep

The primary advantages of implementing Checkstep include significant operational efficiency, enhanced safety, and simplified compliance. By automating the bulk of moderation tasks, it can reduce human moderation costs by up to 90%. Its multi-layered AI approach ensures higher detection accuracy than a single-model solution. Furthermore, it protects not only users from harm but also moderators from repeated exposure to traumatic content. The automated compliance features save valuable time and resources, ensuring platforms can easily adhere to evolving international regulations.

Pricing and Plans

Checkstep offers a customized pricing model tailored to the unique needs of each client. Pricing is determined by several factors, including the volume of content scanned, the types of media (text, image, video), and the specific harm categories targeted. Through its AI Marketplace model, Checkstep works to find the most cost-effective solution for your budget and performance requirements. To receive a personalized quote and see the platform in action, prospective clients are encouraged to book a demo via the Checkstep website.