The rules are local, not moral
This isn't "is it harmful" moderation. It's "is it allowed here": nudity thresholds, alcohol, religious references, territorial wording, age tiers. Every destination has its own list, and the lists change.
The page that's fine in Paris gets you pulled in Riyadh.
Moderatech reads your publication page by page against each market's rules (skin and alcohol in the Gulf, territorial wording in China, age limits on the kids' tier) and returns a verdict per market, with every finding on record. Minutes, not review days.
Send one real issue, get the full multi-market report back within 24 hours. No card, no setup.
elle_septembre.pdf
France — Généralv2
0 findings
CLEARED
EU DSA baselinev3
0 findings
CLEARED
Saudi Arabia — Printv4
3 findings
FLAGGED
China — Politicalv6
1 finding
FLAGGED
Kids — Under 13v2
2 findings
FLAGGED
p.18 · NUDITY HIGH · “backless gown, editorial spread”
p.41 · SUBSTANCES MED · “champagne pairing for late summer” — hover a bar to reveal
p.41 · SUBSTANCES MED · “champagne pairing for late summer” — hover a bar to reveal
Every market reads a different magazine.
Europe tolerates bare skin but not gore. The Gulf is the exact inverse. China reads the wording of a map caption. The same issue clears one market and breaks a contract in the next.
Read by hand, or not at all
Publishers page through issues one by one: slow, costly, inconsistent. Catalogue distributors can't read thousands of titles at all, so they play it safe, excluding whole titles from strict markets while the occasional surprise still ships.
One miss costs the deal
A single wrong page in the wrong market means pulled titles, angry partners, or a lost distribution contract. And when it happens, there's no record of who checked what against which rules.
Upload once. Get a verdict for every market.
Moderatech reads the full document, text and page images both, so a bare shoulder in a photo spread is caught as reliably as a sentence about Taiwan.
STEP 1
Drop in the issue
Drag a PDF or EPUB into the dashboard, or POST it from your pipeline. Same engine either way.
STEP 2
Pick the markets
Select the region packs the title ships to, or your own house policy. One upload covers all of them in a single pass.
STEP 3
Read the verdict
Per-market verdicts with page-level findings: category, severity, the exact extract, the reason, a confidence score. Every review is stored with the policy version that produced it.
# or straight from your pipeline
POST /moderation/validate/file
{ "file": "elle_septembre.pdf", "policies": ["ksa-print", "china-political", "kids-u13"] }
# poll the result
{ "status": "finished", "verdicts": { "ksa-print": "flagged", "china-political": "flagged", "kids-u13": "clean" } }
Region packs: the rules, kept current so you don't have to.
Each pack is a named, versioned ruleset built for a market. Start from a pack as-is, tune the sensitivity, or clone it into a house variant. When a market's rules move, the pack updates and your history shows exactly which version reviewed what.
GCC · v5
Middle East / GCC
Dress and skin exposure, alcohol, religious references and criticism, LGBTQ+ content, profanity.
nuditysubstancesreligiouslgbtq+
KSA-PRINT · v4
Saudi Arabia — Print
The GCC baseline plus the stricter print rules: references to the ruling family, religious figures, and political commentary.
nudityreligiouspolitical
CN-POL · v6
China — Political
Territorial wording and maps (Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong), political figures and movements, historical references. For catalogues and brands serving China-facing routes and audiences.
territorialpoliticalmaps
KIDS-U13 · v2
Kids — Under 13
Age-appropriate screening for children's tiers: language, substances, violence, fear, and suggestive content.
ageviolenceprofanitysubstances
EU-DSA · v3
EU DSA baseline
The illegal-content categories the Digital Services Act defines, screened before distribution, with the audit trail that makes notice-and-action and transparency reporting painless.
illegal contentaudit trail
YOURS · v1
Your rules as a pack
An airline's house style, a distributor's contract terms, a brand's red lines. We encode them as a private versioned pack, and maintain it.
Every plan includes every pack. You pay for what you review, not for which rules you switch on.
Priced by the page, not by the seat.
One page-check = one page reviewed against one policy. A 120-page issue checked for three markets is 360 page-checks, about the cost of a coffee. The same review done by hand runs hundreds of dollars and takes days.
Start with a pilot. It's free.
Send one real issue you're about to distribute. You'll have the page-by-page report for every one of your markets within 24 hours.
Starter
$149/mo
4,000 page-checks · then $0.05
- All region packs
- Dashboard + API
- Email alerts on flags
- Full review history
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Growth
$449/mo
15,000 page-checks · then $0.04
- Everything in Starter
- Custom policies (editor)
- Scheduled digest reports
- Free pipeline integration
Scale
$1,290/mo
50,000 page-checks · then $0.03
- Everything in Growth
- Priority processing
- Invoice billing
- Onboarding assistance
Enterprise
Custom
100k+ page-checks / month
- Committed-volume bands from $0.01/page-check
- Custom packs, authored & maintained
- Done-for-you integration
- DPA / SLA
Free integration on every paid plan. If you don't have developers, we wire Moderatech into your existing flow (S3 drop, FTP watch, or your CMS) ourselves, at no charge. Annual billing gets two months free.
The fine print, plainly.
What exactly is a page-check?
One page of your document reviewed against one policy. Check a 100-page issue against the Saudi pack and the China pack, and that's 200 page-checks. It's the only number you need to predict your bill, and it scales with exactly what you use.
How accurate is it? Do we still need a human?
Every finding carries a category, a severity, and a confidence score, so your reviewer reads the flagged pages instead of the whole issue. You keep the decision; Moderatech replaces the reading, not the judgment. In practice that turns a half-day review into minutes of checking flags.
Which formats and languages are covered?
PDF and EPUB, up to full magazine and book length. The engine reads both the text and the rendered page images, so photo spreads, ads, maps, and illustrations are screened, not just body copy. Coverage is multilingual, including Arabic and right-to-left layouts.
Where does our content go?
Files are processed in AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland), are never used to train models, and are purged on a schedule you control. Reviews themselves (findings, verdicts, policy versions) stay in your history for auditing.
We're a distributor. We can't modify publishers' content.
Right, and you never have to. Moderatech doesn't touch the file: you get per-market verdicts, page-level evidence, and an audit trail, and the carry / hold / talk-to-the-publisher decision stays yours. Editing based on findings is for publishers reviewing their own titles.
Our rules aren't any of your packs.
Good, that's normal. Packs are starting points: tune the sensitivity per category, clone a pack into a house variant, or have us encode your exact editorial guidelines as a private versioned pack that we maintain for you.
We don't have developers.
You don't need any. The dashboard does everything the API does, and on any paid plan we build and maintain the integration into your existing workflow for free. If you do have developers, they get a documented REST API instead.
Your next issue is the pilot.
Send us one publication you're about to distribute and the list of markets it ships to. Tomorrow you'll know exactly which pages need attention, and where.