Revolutionizing online safety together: Bodyguard partners with Stream

We’re excited to announce Bodyguard’s new partnership with Stream: the global leader in scalable, real-time communication APIs.

This partnership brings Bodyguard’s advanced moderation capabilities to Stream-powered platforms, empowering developers, businesses, and communities to create safer and more positive online spaces. By integrating Bodyguard’s technology, Stream reinforces its commitment to fostering meaningful connections while protecting users from harmful content.

The technology that makes it happen

Bodyguard’s moderation tool integrates seamlessly with Stream APIs, so users are protected from harmful toxicity immediately, and without disruption.

Our moderation doesn’t depend on deep learning techniques or large datasets to build models. Instead, it relies on Natural Language Processing, something Bodyguard excels in, and is built on a rules-based engine that is continuously developed and fine tuned by our in-house linguistic teams, to adapt emerging toxicity trends.

Taking this approach means that changes to moderation rules can be implemented almost instantly, which is essential in the ever-changing digital landscape.

Bodyguard’s linguistic team create and update our moderation rules based on several intel sources.

Firstly, we allow customers to report a mistake at any time through our dashboard or our dedicated API, so that the accuracy and quality of our moderation is constantly refined.

Our specialist linguist team also monitors new trends on a selection of toxic forums, social media accounts, and websites that we follow closely.

As a result, Bodyguard can add to and update our rules in minutes: something that wouldn’t be possible with a traditional deep-learning approach.

Bodyguard moderation profiles can also be tailored for specific business sectors and severity levels, to give effective, targeted moderation for every industry and community.

Benefits for users, developers and businesses

Our partnership means that businesses and developers that use Stream now have instant access to Bodyguard’s cutting-edge moderation, to create safer, more and inclusive digital communities, which benefits their users the most.

Accurate, effective, real-time moderation is applied to all content and interactions that happen on Stream APIs. Toxic content, including hate speech, bullying, illegal and explicit material, spam, and scams are instantly detected and filtered by Bodyguard, creating more positive online environments, powered by Stream, that people love to be part of.

Bodyguard has been developed to scale at speed, meaning that fast-growing online communities can be confident that our moderation will adapt to their increasing user base and volume of interactions. No matter what the community size, Bodyguard delivers the same quality, speed and accuracy of moderation.

Bodyguard moderation is also customizable, meaning every app that uses it can benefit from tailored moderation that is designed to suit the needs of their community.

Bringing a shared vision to life

We’re proud to be partnering with Stream to make our shared vision of safer, more positive online spaces a reality, and to empower their clients to create digital spaces where meaningful connections are created and can thrive.

Whether you’re a Stream customer, or just starting out on your moderation journey, contact us today to find out how Bodyguard can help.