Detect bots and verify real community members with lightweight verification

Detect bots and verify real community members with lightweight verification targets a $2.4B = 4M active communities × $600 ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% YoY — estimated growth for bot mitigation and community moderation tooling driven by rising bot volume and increased moderation spend (industry synthesis from moderation-tool vendor growth and security tooling forecasts)..

Key trends driving demand: Trend — AI-generated accounts and automated spam have increased materially, creating an urgent need for better detection and verification in communities.; Trend — Platforms and communities are shifting budget toward third-party moderation tools and paid moderation assistance to preserve engagement.; Trend — Privacy-preserving verification and decentralized identity concepts are gaining traction, enabling verification options that don't require personal data.; Trend — Managed ML inference and cheap APIs reduce the cost of running detection models, making specialized community solutions viable for small teams..