Read everything they
ever posted. Before you sign.

Four steps. First, scope the whole footprint — resolve every account the creator runs across platforms, because risk usually lives on the one you were not pitched. Second, read the full public history rather than a recent sample: 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, attach evidence to every finding so your legal team can audit it. CreatorScore automates all four in one scan: $19.99 for the Quick tier on public content, $29.99 for Verified with creator-authorised access.

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.

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.

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.

Yes — the Quick tier ($19.99) 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.

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.

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.

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.

Twelve: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, Reddit, Twitch, Kick, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Threads and Bluesky. A background check resolves the creator’s accounts across all of them into one footprint, because a creator who is careful on Instagram is not necessarily careful on the platform they treat as their group chat — and that is usually the one nobody thought to check.