WhatAn API and protocol that lets any platform implement transitive trust scoring — users vouch for others, and reputation propagates through the social graph with decay.
SignalMultiple commenters independently express desire for trust-graph systems to fight spam and AI slop across academia, social media, and search — and note that despite the idea being obvious, nobody has built a meaningful implementation yet.
Why NowThe explosion of AI-generated content has made traditional moderation (keyword filters, manual review) unscalable, while LLM-generated spam now threatens academic repositories, social platforms, and search engines simultaneously.
MarketB2B SaaS sold to platform operators (social networks, forums, repositories); TAM in content moderation market ~$15B by 2028. Competitors: Akismet (spam only), perspective API (toxicity only). Gap: no graph-based trust product exists.
MoatThe trust graph itself becomes proprietary data — the more platforms contribute vouching signals, the more accurate the scores, creating a data network effect extremely hard to replicate.
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