Guaranteeing legitimate case studies without a moderation team
Betting on verified identity rather than censorship — and the two bugs that made us doubt it.
A case-study platform is worth exactly as much as the trust placed in what gets published on it. One fake report and the credibility of the whole corpus wobbles. The question we faced: how do you guarantee the legitimacy of every publication, at scale, without standing up a moderation team — and without handing the triage to an AI, which judges the form of a text rather than the legitimacy of whoever publishes it?
Our answer replaces content moderation with sender verification: no company, no publication; a minimum of substance required; an intra-community VAT number checked against the EU registry; full traceability.
The report also tells the story of the two traps we hit along the way, both from the
same family: a third-party service answering 200 OK without having been able to check
anything, then an “unknown” state that actually covered two opposite situations — “I could
not check right now” and “I will never be able to check this value”. The second one let any
string of characters through for months.