CreatorScoreSocial background check
Read everything they
ever posted. Before you sign.
A one-time, full-history inspection of a creator's public content — every caption, every video transcript, text burned into frames, and the posts they already deleted. Categorised findings, each traced to the exact post behind it.
$29.99 per check, Quick or Verified — one scan per payment, no subscription.
No score is produced. A background check returns categorised findings with the evidence attached — that is a different question from “how good is this creator?”
The whole history
The post that ends a campaign is never on page one.
Brand crises almost never come from what a creator posted this month. They come from something years old that someone else found first.
Depth
Back to the first post, not the last hundred
Vetting tools sample a recent window because it is cheap. A background check reads the entire public timeline on every platform the creator runs — and the risk is disproportionately in the old material, written before they had anything to lose.
Deleted content
Including what they took down
We check web archives for posts that no longer exist on the profile. A deleted post is still screenshot-able, still quotable, and still the thing a journalist surfaces the week your campaign goes live.
Recovered from web archive
captured 14 Mar 2021 · removed by creator
Deleting a post removes it from the feed, not from the internet.
Spoken audio
What they said, not what they captioned
Speech-to-text across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram video. Captions are written for the algorithm; the risk is usually in the sentence spoken forty seconds into a vlog.
The caption said “fun day 🎉”.
On-screen text
Text inside the image
Memes, stitched replies and screenshots carry the message in pixels, not in the caption field. We read those frames.
A caption can be clean while the image says something else entirely.
Findings
Categorised, never scored
Nineteen risk types, each with a count and the posts behind it. No number, no grade — a different question from how good a creator is.
Coverage
We tell you what we could not read
A private account, a dead video link, a platform that returned nothing — you see it. A clear result earned off a partial read is not a clear result.
32% of this creator’s videos had no spoken audio at all — music only. We say so, instead of quietly counting it against them.
Auditability
Every finding traced to the post behind it
A flag you cannot verify is a rumour. Each finding links to the exact post, frame or line — and the image is copied into our own storage the moment it is flagged, because platform links expire within days and legal may ask months later.
Platform image links expire in days. Ours are copied to storage the moment a post is flagged, so the proof is still there when legal asks.
▸ What is checked
Ten categories. Every finding traced to its post.
The ten categories brands ask about most. Each finding is filed with the exact post, frame or transcript line behind it and a stored copy of the media; narrower types — harassment, extremism, misinformation, child safety, cultural insensitivity — are filed separately when they appear. Findings are reported so you can judge them against your own brand, never as a verdict and never as a number.
- 01
Hate speech & discrimination
Content targeting or demeaning people by race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability.
Where it hides: Old replies and quote-posts, and slurs spoken in video rather than typed in a caption.
- 02
NSFW & explicit content
Sexually explicit or suggestive imagery and language a family or retail brand could not sit next to.
Where it hides: Frames inside a video, linked accounts on other platforms, and posts later deleted.
- 03
Violence & weapons
Depicting, promoting or glorifying violence or weapons.
Where it hides: Background objects in a frame, stitched clips, and gaming or prank content read out of context.
- 04
Profanity & vulgar language
Habitual strong language — reported so you can judge it against your own tolerance, not as a verdict.
Where it hides: Spoken audio. Captions are written for the algorithm; the swearing is in the voice track.
- 05
Political & divisive content
Partisan statements, endorsements and divisive commentary.
Where it hides: Election-period posts from years ago, and X threads that were never cross-posted.
- 06
Legal & criminal matters
Arrests, lawsuits, regulatory action and references to criminal proceedings — each carried to its outcome.
Where it hides: Press coverage rather than the creator's own feed, and the resolution that came years after the headline.
- 07
Public feuds
Calling out, attacking or feuding with other creators, brands or public figures.
Where it hides: Reply chains and response videos, which rarely surface in a profile scroll.
- 08
Brand criticism
Attacks on specific brands or companies — including, possibly, yours or a competitor you cannot be seen beside.
Where it hides: Review-style videos and boycott calls spoken rather than captioned.
- 09
Substance promotion
Promotion of alcohol, drugs, vaping or related products, and depictions of intoxication.
Where it hides: Party footage in the background of unrelated posts; sponsored vape content on a secondary account.
- 10
Deceptive & scam content
MLM promotion, fake testimonials, misleading income or health claims, and undisclosed paid promotion.
Where it hides: Affiliate codes in pinned comments, and sponsorships that were never labelled as ads.
Legal and accusatory matters are carried to their outcome — charges declined, dismissed, settled, served, or explicitly unresolved as of a date — before they appear. An allegation without its resolution is not a finding.
Global by default
A creator who doesn't post in English
is not a lower risk. They're an unread one.
Most brand-safety tools read English, translate the rest, and hand you a clean report either way. A blank scan and a clear scan look identical on the page — and only one of them is true.
Machine translation flattens register. Sarcasm, irony and in-group teasing come out reading as sincere — so a joke gets flagged as an attack, and a real attack delivered deadpan comes out clean.
We run detection in the original language, then translate only the evidence we show you.
The same word is affectionate in São Paulo and a slur in Lisbon. A term reclaimed inside a community is an insult from outside it. A wordlist cannot tell who is speaking or to whom.
Severity is judged with the speaker, the audience and the region in frame — not by string match.
A stance that is unremarkable in one market is a boycott trigger in another. Australia's under-16 social media ban, EU alcohol rules, Gulf modesty norms — none of these appear in an American brand-safety taxonomy.
Findings carry the local context so you can decide, instead of a verdict that assumes your market.
27
interface languages
6
OCR scripts on-screen
100+
languages transcribed
Why this is a background-check problem specifically. A monitoring score watches what a creator posts next. A background check reads what they posted a decade ago — in the language they used then, in a culture that may have moved since. Getting that wrong in either direction costs someone a partnership.
12 Platforms Analyzed.
One Unified Score.
Most vetting tools only cover 3-5 platforms. CreatorScore analyzes creators across 12 social platforms — more than any competitor — giving you a complete picture of brand safety risk, no blind spots.
Platform Coverage vs. Competitors
Cross-platform scores are weighted by follower count and merged into one trust score
A creator may be brand-safe on Instagram but risky on Twitch — we catch it all
We auto-link a creator's accounts across platforms into one unified profile
▸ How you get it
Hours, not weeks. One price, three ways to order.
Hours, not weeks
Most checks finish within the hour; a decade-deep catalogue with thousands of videos takes longer because every video is transcribed and analysed frame by frame rather than sampled. You are emailed when the report is ready.
Quick or Verified — $29.99
Same price, same depth. Quick reads public content with no creator participation. Verified has the creator authorise their accounts through OAuth and never scrapes audience data. One payment per creator, no subscription.
Dashboard, API or MCP
Order a check from the brand dashboard, from the public REST API, or from an AI assistant through the MCP integration. Same report, same flat price, every route.
Developers: see the background-checks endpoint in the API reference. Wondering what a check costs against doing it by hand? Read the cost breakdown.
Two tiers
Pay once, per creator.
No seat, no subscription, no minimum. The difference between the two is whether the creator takes part — not how hard we look.
Quick
$29.99
public content
Verified
$29.99
creator-authorised
Verified means no scraping of audience data — the creator connects their accounts and we analyse what they authorised. It does not mean a lighter analysis: transcription, frame-by-frame video and visual ML all still run. Neither tier reads audience comments.
Not the same product
A background check is not a score.
Background check
One payment. Reads the entire history once and returns categorised findings with evidence. No number is produced. Use it before you sign.
CreatorScore
A 1–100 trust score across the creator's whole cross-platform footprint, kept current with ongoing monitoring and alerts. Use it to manage a roster over time.
Questions brands ask
What a background check covers, what it deliberately does not, and where the boundaries are.
How do you run a background check on an influencer before signing a deal?
+
Four steps. First, submit the creator’s handles on the platforms they use — up to 11 are supported — including the one you were not pitched, because risk usually lives there. Second, read the full history rather than a recent sample: every post on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Reddit, and whatever each of the other platforms exposes — captions, video transcripts, text burned into frames, and posts recovered from web archives after the creator deleted them. Third, categorise what you find into risk types — hate, NSFW, violence, legal, public feuds, undisclosed partnerships — instead of returning a single verdict. Fourth, have an AI verify every finding and attach the evidence so your legal team can audit it. CreatorScore does steps two to four in one scan of the accounts you submit: $29.99 for the Quick tier on public content, $29.99 for Verified with creator-authorised access.
Does a background check produce a CreatorScore?
+
No, and that is deliberate. A background check returns categorised findings with evidence — it never produces a number, a grade or a tier. A CreatorScore is a separate product: a 1–100 trust score across a creator’s entire cross-platform footprint, kept current with ongoing monitoring. They answer different questions. The background check asks “what is in this person’s history?” before you sign; the score asks “how is this creator trending?” while you work with them. Buying one does not give you the other.
Can you analyse creators who post in languages other than English?
+
Yes, and this is where most brand-safety tools quietly fail. The common approach is to machine-translate everything into English and then scan it, which flattens register — sarcasm and in-group teasing read as sincere, while a genuine attack delivered deadpan reads as clean. CreatorScore runs detection in the original language and translates only the evidence shown to you. Severity is judged with the speaker, the audience and the region in frame, because the same word can be affectionate in one country and a slur in another, and a term reclaimed inside a community is an insult from outside it. On-screen text is read in six scripts and speech is transcribed in over a hundred languages.
How far back does the historical scan go?
+
To the beginning of the account, not to an arbitrary recent window. Most vetting tools sample the last hundred posts because it is cheap, but brand crises rarely come from what a creator posted this month — they come from something years old that a journalist or a competitor found first. The scan also checks web archives for posts that no longer appear on the profile, since deleting a post removes it from the feed but not from the internet.
Can I run a background check without the creator knowing?
+
Yes — the Quick tier ($29.99) analyses only public content, requires no creator participation and sends them no notification. The Verified tier ($29.99) is the opposite by design: the creator connects their own accounts through OAuth, so the analysis runs on first-party content they authorised. Choose Quick when you are evaluating a creator you have not approached yet, and Verified when they are already in conversation and you want the deeper, consented read.
What if some of the creator’s content cannot be analysed?
+
You are told, explicitly and per category. A private account, a dead video link, a platform that returned nothing — each is reported rather than silently folded into a clean result. This matters more than it sounds: a “no issues found” conclusion earned from a partial read is worse than no answer at all, because it manufactures false confidence. If we could read every image but only two-thirds of the spoken audio, the report says exactly that, and marks the categories that depend on audio as partially assessed instead of clear.
How long does a background check take?
+
Most complete within 10 to 60 minutes. A creator with a small, recent catalogue finishes quickly; a creator with thousands of videos going back a decade takes longer, because every video is transcribed and analysed frame by frame rather than sampled. You do not need to keep the page open — the report appears in your dashboard and you are emailed when it is ready.
Do you provide FCRA-compliant reports for employment screening?
+
No. CreatorScore is a brand-safety and partnership-vetting tool, not a consumer reporting agency, and our reports are not FCRA-compliant. They must not be used to make decisions about employment, housing, credit or insurance. If you need a background check for hiring, use a licensed FCRA-regulated screening provider. What we do is different: evaluating public content for brand-partnership risk, which is not a regulated consumer report.
What platforms do you cover?
+
Eleven: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X (Twitter), Facebook, Reddit, Twitch, Kick, LinkedIn, Threads and Bluesky. On six of them — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and Reddit — we read the complete posting history; on the other five we read as much as the platform exposes, and the report states exactly how many posts were read on each account. Snapchat and Pinterest are not supported. A check scans the accounts you submit, plus any already known for that creator — it does not go looking for accounts you did not name — so include the platform the creator treats as their group chat, because that is usually the one nobody thought to check.
▸ Keep reading
More on background checks for creators
- How to run a background check on an influencerSix steps, what to look for in each, and where a manual review and an automated one part ways.
- How to check an influencer's past postsGoing back through a creator's history by hand, platform by platform — and where the manual method breaks down.
- How to find an influencer's deleted postsWeb archives, search residue, the replies and quote-posts that outlive a post, and how to document what you recover.
- Influencer vetting checklistA printable checklist across identity, audience, content history, public record, FTC history and brand conflicts.
- Influencer background check costWhat drives the price of a check, what manual vetting costs in hours, and what $29.99 covers.
- Social media screening for brand partnershipsFor compliance, procurement and HR readers: scope, consent, data handling and the questions to ask a vendor.
- Social media background checkWhat a social media background check is, what it covers, and why it is not an employment screen.
- Background check vs monitoringOne reads the whole past once; the other watches what happens next. Which you need, and when you want both.
Vet your next creator
before you sign the deal.
One score across every platform, every risk named and traced to the post that caused it. Make the call in minutes, with the evidence to back it up.