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The UK Online Safety Act lands in September. Ofcom can fine non-compliant platforms up to 10% of global revenue. Don't build compliance from scratch — plug in our AI-powered moderation API and be audit-ready in an afternoon, not months.

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Avg Latency
1,500+
Req/sec
5
Classifiers
4
Policy Packs
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UK Online Safety Act Ready
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Age-Aware Scoring
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Full Audit Trail
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Sub-2ms Response
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Configurable Policies
⚠️ Compliance Deadline

September 2025. Is Your Platform Ready?

The UK Online Safety Act requires platforms with user-generated content to demonstrate robust, age-appropriate moderation — or face fines up to 10% of global revenue. Building this in-house takes months of engineering. With GripAi, you're audit-ready in an afternoon.

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3–6 Months
Average time to build in-house moderation that meets Ofcom standards
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1 Afternoon
Time to integrate GripAi Safety API with regulator-ready compliance reports
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Audit-Ready
Compliance dashboard, age verification, policy packs and full audit logs — built in
Detection Categories

Five Layers of Protection

Each classifier runs independently, producing a score (0–100) and confidence level. Combined with age boosts and platform context for precise moderation decisions.

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Toxicity
Hate speech, slurs, threats, and aggressive language. Severity stacking detects when multiple toxic signals combine.
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Grooming
Predatory patterns like isolation attempts, secret-keeping requests, and platform-switching tactics. Zero tolerance under child_strict.
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Scam Detection
"Free skins", account phishing, fake giveaways, credential harvesting. Urgency signals amplify the risk score.
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Sexual Content
NSFW text and explicit material. Image analysis placeholder ready for NSFW model integration.
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Harassment
Targeted bullying, pile-on behaviour, repeated "uninstall" / "quit" abuse. Tracked across conversation history.
Policy Engine

One API. Four Modes.

Choose a policy pack per request. Each pack configures thresholds, age boosts, platform multipliers, and escalation rules.

child_strict
Maximum protection for under-13. Aggressive blocking, zero tolerance on grooming & scams.
allow ≤ 20 warn ≤ 50 age boost +35 audit log
teen_safe
Balanced protection for 13–17. Warn-first approach with educational nudges.
allow ≤ 30 warn ≤ 65 age boost +20 verbose log
general_community
Standard community moderation. Focus on illegal and extreme content.
allow ≤ 35 warn ≤ 75 age boost +15 standard log
competitive_mode
Relaxed toxicity for ranked play. Still blocks grooming & sexual content.
allow ≤ 45 warn ≤ 80 age boost +10 standard log
Live Demo

Try It Now

Send a moderation request to the live API. See how age, platform, and policy packs affect the decision.

POST /v1/moderate
gripai.uk/safety-api
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curl -X POST "https://gripai.uk/safety-api/v1/moderate" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "text": "free skins click here noob",
  "age_band": "under_13",
  "platform": "trade",
  "policy_pack": "child_strict",
  "user_id": "player_123",
  "conversation_id": "chat_456"
}'
Pricing

Built for Every Studio Size

Ofcom compliance deadlines are approaching — don't spend months building moderation in-house. Start free, be audit-ready today, and scale as your player base grows. Every plan includes AI classification, gaming-context calibration, and regulator-ready reporting.

Starter
Indie
Free
5,000 messages / month
  • All 5 AI classifiers
  • 2 policy packs
  • Live demo & Swagger docs
  • Community support
  • Batch processing
  • Webhooks
  • Compliance reports
Try It Free →
Growth
Pro
£49 / month
100,000 messages / month
  • All 5 AI classifiers
  • All 4 policy packs
  • Webhooks & real-time alerts
  • Batch processing (100/job)
  • Email support
  • Compliance dashboard
  • Custom policies
Get Started →
Scale
Studio
£199 / month
1,000,000 messages / month
  • All 5 AI classifiers
  • All 4 policy packs + custom
  • Compliance dashboard & reports
  • Marketplace access
  • Plugin system
  • Priority support
  • Sequence analysis & account risk
Get Started →
Enterprise
Enterprise
Custom
Unlimited messages
  • Everything in Studio
  • Dedicated infrastructure
  • Custom model training
  • SLA & uptime guarantee
  • On-premise deployment option
  • GDPR / COPPA audit support
  • Dedicated account manager
Contact Sales →

All paid plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required for Indie tier.
Need something specific? Get in touch — we're flexible.

🇬🇧 UK Online Safety Act — Compliance Insurance
Ofcom enforcement begins September 2025. Platforms with chat, messaging, or community features must demonstrate robust content moderation — or face fines up to 10% of global revenue. GripAi gives your team regulator-ready reports, audit logs, and age-appropriate policy enforcement out of the box. Months of compliance engineering, replaced by one API call.

API Reference

Endpoints

Full REST API with interactive docs available at /docs

POST /v1/moderate Core moderation — text & image scoring
GET /v1/conversations/{id} Conversation history with risk trends
GET /v1/users/{id}/risk Aggregate user risk profiling
GET /v1/policies List available policy packs
GET /v1/policies/{name} Policy pack details & config
GET /v1/review-queue Manual review queue items
POST /v1/review-queue/{id}/resolve Admin override with audit trail
GET /health Health check & version info
GET /v1/audit/logs Compliance audit logs with filtering
GET /v1/audit/stats Aggregate audit statistics
GET /v1/audit/users/{id}/history User audit history (GDPR / CCPA)
POST /v1/audit/export Export logs to JSONL for compliance
POST /v1/adaptive-response/preview Preview age-adaptive responses
POST /v1/moderate/batch Async batch moderation (up to 100 items)
GET /v1/moderate/batch/{id} Batch job status & progress
GET /v1/moderate/batch/{id}/results Get completed batch results
POST /v1/webhooks Register webhook for real-time events
GET /v1/webhooks/stats Webhook delivery statistics
POST /v1/moderate/voice Voice/audio moderation pipeline
POST /v1/moderate/multimodal Multimodal fusion (text + image + audio)
GET /v1/users/{id}/account-risk Account-level risk profile & trust score
GET /v1/users/{id}/cross-platform Cross-platform behavioral signals
GET /v1/account-risk/high-risk List high-risk users above threshold
GET /v1/conversations/{id}/sequence-analysis Grooming pattern detection in conversations
GET /v1/cache/stats Content cache statistics
Integration

Ofcom-Ready Moderation in 3 Steps

Replace months of in-house compliance engineering with a single API integration. Most game studios go from zero to audit-ready in under a day.

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Choose a Policy Pack
Select child_strict, teen_safe, general_community, or competitive_mode based on your game's audience and age rating.
2️⃣
Send Messages to the API
One POST /v1/moderate call per chat message. Include the player's age band and platform context. Get back a decision in ~30ms.
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Generate Compliance Reports
The compliance dashboard produces Ofcom-ready audit reports, moderation statistics, and exportable logs — exactly what regulators ask for.
Use Cases

Built for Every Type of Game

Whether you're an indie studio launching your first multiplayer title or a publisher managing millions of daily active users, GripAi adapts to your moderation needs.

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Multiplayer Chat Moderation
Real-time content moderation for in-game chat, lobby messages, and voice-to-text. Gaming-context calibration reduces false positives on competitive banter while catching genuine toxicity and harassment.
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Child Safety & Grooming Prevention
Protect young players with AI-powered grooming detection, age-appropriate content filtering, and automatic parental notification flags. Essential for UK Online Safety Act compliance with under-13 audiences.
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Community Forums & Social Features
Moderate user profiles, forum posts, guild chat, and direct messages. Batch processing handles high-volume community content with the same classifier accuracy as real-time moderation.
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Competitive & Esports
The competitive_mode policy pack relaxes toxicity thresholds for ranked play and tournaments while maintaining zero tolerance on grooming, threats, and sexual content.
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In-Game Trading & Marketplace
Detect account phishing, fake giveaway scams, credential harvesting, and "free skins" social engineering in trading channels. Scam classifier uses 40+ weighted patterns with urgency signal amplification.
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Mobile & Cross-Platform Games
Platform-agnostic REST API works with any game engine — Unity, Unreal, Godot, custom. DM context scoring applies stricter thresholds to private messaging where grooming risk is highest.
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the UK Online Safety Act and how does it affect game developers? +
The UK Online Safety Act (2023) requires platforms with user-generated content — including games with chat, messaging, or community features — to implement robust, age-appropriate content moderation. Ofcom enforces the Act and can issue fines up to 10% of a company's global revenue for non-compliance. Enforcement begins September 2025. GripAi Safety API provides Ofcom-compliant moderation with regulator-ready reports, audit logs, and age-appropriate policy enforcement — so your engineering team doesn't have to build it from scratch.
How does GripAi detect grooming in game chat? +
GripAi uses 50+ weighted regex patterns across 9 grooming signal types including isolation attempts, secret-keeping requests, age probing, platform-switching tactics, and trust-building manipulation. The system uses co-occurrence boosting — when multiple grooming signals appear together, the risk score escalates exponentially. Under the child_strict policy pack, grooming has zero tolerance and any detection results in an immediate block with parental notification flags.
Does the API understand gaming language and trash talk? +
Yes. GripAi includes gaming-context calibration with 26 slang dampener patterns (covering terms like "noob", "trash", "git gud", "dog water", "skill diff") and 70+ gaming vocabulary context words. When gaming language is detected, toxicity scores are dampened — so "gg ez get rekt noob" scores risk 9 (ALLOW) rather than being falsely flagged. However, escalation patterns like "kill yourself" always override dampening and trigger high risk scores regardless of gaming context.
How fast is the API? Can it handle real-time game chat? +
The API responds in approximately 30 milliseconds per request. It uses a DistilBERT neural network for toxicity, harassment, and sexual content classification, combined with optimised pattern matching for grooming and scam detection. The system handles 1,500+ requests per second and is designed for real-time in-game chat moderation with no noticeable latency for players.
What age groups does the moderation support? +
GripAi supports four age bands: under_13, 13-15, 16-17, and 18+. Each age band can be paired with policy packs that configure risk thresholds, age boosts, and escalation rules. Younger age bands receive higher age boosts, meaning the same content may be blocked for a child but allowed for an adult — exactly what Ofcom's age-appropriate design guidance requires.
Is GripAi GDPR and COPPA compliant? +
Yes. GripAi provides full audit trails with GDPR, COPPA, and CCPA support, including per-user history endpoints, data export in JSONL format, and configurable data retention policies. The compliance dashboard generates regulator-ready reports that can be submitted directly to Ofcom or other regulatory bodies. The Enterprise plan includes dedicated GDPR/COPPA audit support.
How much does GripAi Safety API cost? +
GripAi offers four tiers: Indie (Free — 5,000 messages/month), Pro (£49/month — 100,000 messages), Studio (£199/month — 1,000,000 messages with compliance dashboard), and Enterprise (custom pricing — unlimited messages, SLA, on-premise deployment). All paid plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required for the Indie tier.

Why Game Studios Need AI-Powered Content Moderation in 2025

The UK gaming industry generates over £7 billion annually, with millions of players — many of them children — interacting in real-time through in-game chat, voice communication, and community forums. The UK Online Safety Act fundamentally changes the legal landscape: platforms that fail to protect users from harmful content face Ofcom enforcement action and fines of up to 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue.

The Problem with Generic Content Moderation

Most content moderation APIs are built for social media — they don't understand the unique language patterns of gaming communities. Words like "noob", "trash", "you suck", and "git gud" are standard competitive banter, not harassment. Generic filters either over-flag gaming language (destroying the player experience) or under-flag genuine threats (failing to protect vulnerable users). Neither outcome satisfies Ofcom's requirements.

Gaming-Context Calibration: The GripAi Difference

GripAi Safety API uses DistilBERT neural network classifiers combined with a gaming-context calibration system. The AI analyses message content through five specialised classifiers — toxicity, harassment, sexual content, grooming, and scam detection — then applies gaming-specific dampening based on recognised slang patterns and contextual vocabulary. The result: competitive banter is allowed through while genuine threats, predatory behaviour, and harmful content are caught with high accuracy.

Age-Appropriate Moderation for Child Safety

Ofcom's guidance specifically requires age-appropriate protection measures. GripAi's age-band system applies progressively stricter thresholds for younger players. A message that scores "allow" for an adult may trigger "review" or "block" for a child — exactly the graduated approach regulators expect. The child_strict policy pack includes zero-tolerance grooming detection, automatic parental notification flags, and educational intervention prompts.

Compliance Reporting That Regulators Actually Accept

When Ofcom requests evidence of your moderation practices, you need more than "we have a filter." GripAi's compliance dashboard generates detailed audit reports showing moderation volumes, category breakdowns, false-positive rates, response times, and age-band statistics. Full audit logs are exportable in JSONL format with per-user history endpoints for GDPR Subject Access Requests. This is the documentation that satisfies regulators — generated automatically, not manually assembled by your compliance team.