Content
enters.
Bad actors
don't.
Your moderators stop wading through spam. They only see what the pipeline could not decide on its own.
[ JOIN THE WAITLIST ]ModShield is a content moderation API that scores every post, signup and message sent to your community through eight detection engines — ML, rules, trust and identity reputation — and returns an explainable verdict in under 100 ms: allow, review or block.
ALLOW
REVIEW
BLOCK
Built for the people who clean up after the spammers.
ModShield is aimed at teams that already moderate by hand and can no longer keep up — not at sites that want a black box making decisions for them.
Volunteer moderators spend their evenings deleting the same account-selling posts, and a wave of signups at 3am goes unanswered until morning.
Comments, profiles and contact forms are an open door, and a keyword blocklist blocks your real customers as often as the spammers.
You have to justify a removal to a user, a client or a regulator — and "the filter said so" is not an answer.
Every message runs a full chain before a decision.
The engines run in sequence and enrich each other. Each stage can add reasons. The final decision reflects the whole chain, not a single signal.
POST.
Get a verdict.
Know why.
One API call returns not just a verdict — but the score breakdown and every reason that contributed to the decision. Your moderation team can audit, override, and train from day one.
The latency figure is the engineering target we build and test against during the private beta, measured on our own infrastructure — not a contractual SLA. Measured production numbers will be published once beta volume is representative. The other three are properties of the design: eight engines, a reason attached to every decision, and no traffic blocked when the model is unavailable.
An outage never blocks your traffic.
If the ML model is unavailable, ModShield degrades the quality of the score — never availability. Every degradation is recorded in reasonsJson with the exact reason.
What happens to content ModShield flags?
Nothing you haven't asked for. Each site has a mode: in shadow mode decisions are recorded but never enforced, so you can compare them against what your moderators would have done. When you switch to enforcement, the verdict drives the action your connector takes.
How much will it cost?
Private beta access is free, and no figure is published yet: the tiers are being sized against real beta usage rather than guessed in advance. Pricing will be announced before general availability, waitlist members first, and nobody is charged for anything they used during the beta.
Do you store my users' personal data?
Emails, usernames, phone numbers and link domains are hashed with HMAC-SHA256 before storage, using a secret pepper held by your instance, and reputation is built on those hashes rather than the raw values. IP addresses are handled separately: they are never stored on individual events, and an address is only recorded when it earns reputation of its own or arrives from a blocklist you or a public feed supplied.
Which languages does detection support?
The shipped model is a fastText classifier trained on English, French and Chinese examples rather than an English-only ruleset. Coverage is strongest in those three languages; elsewhere the reputation, velocity and rules signals still apply, and you can add rules for language-specific patterns.
Where does the sub-100ms figure come from?
It is the engineering target the API is built and load-tested against, measured on our own infrastructure, not a contractual SLA and not a number taken from customer production traffic — there is none yet. Your own client measures the round-trip, and the dashboard reports observed model latency for your traffic, so you can check the claim rather than take it — and we publish measured p95 figures once beta volume makes them meaningful.
Which platforms does ModShield work with?
An official Flarum connector is in private beta. Any other platform — Discourse, phpBB, a custom forum or any site with user-generated content — integrates through the REST API: one POST call per piece of content, one JSON response with the verdict, score and reasons.
What happens if the ML model goes down?
Nothing blocking: ModShield is fail-open by design. If the model is unavailable, the other engines — rules, reputation, velocity — keep working. Score quality degrades, availability never does, and every degradation is logged with its exact reason.
How long does integration take?
One endpoint to call. With the Flarum connector, minutes: a composer install and an API key. Through the REST API, plan about a day to wire your events — posts, signups, messages — and test everything in shadow mode before enforcing anything.
How do I get access?
ModShield is in private beta. Join the waitlist with your email — telling us your platform and what you need to protect helps us prioritize your access. We open access progressively, first come first served.
Can I try it without affecting my community?
Yes — that's what shadow mode is for. Send real traffic, get real decisions, enforce nothing. The reports show you exactly what would have been blocked.
Protect your community. Explain every decision.
Private beta access is free. Pricing is published before general availability, and waitlist members hear it first.
SEE THE FAQ →Connectors are in private beta — API access ships first, connectors follow.