Use Case · Trust & Safety

Custom moderation that fits your community.

Rewrite, redact, escalate, or refuse — per category, per surface, per policy. Not one-size-fits-all toggles.

UGC platforms and marketplaces need moderation that matches their community standards, not a generic provider preset. Policy Gateway lets your trust & safety team author and version policies as code, A/B test outcomes, and stream every decision into your moderation queue.

The problem

Why teams in trust & safety hit a wall.

Generic moderation APIs miss your context

A dating app, a developer forum, and a marketplace listing all need different rules. Provider-side moderation flattens that nuance into a handful of toggles.

Block-or-allow is too crude

Real moderation often means rewriting (sanitize), redacting (strip PII), or escalating (human review). Off-the-shelf APIs only label.

No way to audit individual decisions

Regulators (DSA, KOSA) increasingly require justification for every moderation action. Most APIs return scores, not reasons.

How Policy Gateway helps

Built for trust & safety workloads.

Policy-as-code per surface

Define one policy for marketplace listings, another for direct messages, another for public posts. Version, simulate, and roll out per-policy with shadow and canary modes.

Outcomes beyond block

Configure rewrite (sanitize), redact (strip PII), escalate (human queue), or refuse — per category, per surface. Tune outcomes without redeploying your app.

Decision-by-decision audit

Every moderation action logged with policy ID, reason code, and content hash. Stream into your moderation tooling, T&S queue, or compliance archive.

Examples

Scenarios from the field.

Marketplace listing sanitization

Auto-rewrite listings that violate community guidelines (prohibited terms, bad formatting) instead of bouncing the seller. Conversion stays up; policy stays enforced.

DM PII redaction

Strip phone numbers, emails, and government IDs from user-to-user messages before delivery. Reduces off-platform fraud routes without breaking conversations.

High-risk escalation

Route specific content categories (self-harm, threats, CSAM signals) to your trust & safety queue with full conversation context attached for fast triage.

Compliance & alignment

Designed for the frameworks your auditors care about.

Built around the regulatory frameworks reshaping platform moderation in 2024 and beyond.

  • DSA Article 16/17
    Decision metadata supports notice-and-action and statement-of-reasons obligations.
  • GDPR-aligned
    PII redaction at the API boundary; configurable retention.
  • COPPA-aware tooling
    Per-surface policies for products with under-13 users.
  • Shadow + canary modes
    Roll out new rules without surprising your community.
  • Per-project key scoping
    Isolate keys per surface, app, or product line.
  • SOC 2 (in progress)
    Enterprise audits underway.

Ready to bring governance to your trust & safety stack?

Talk to an engineer about your deployment, or grab an API key and start building today.