CheckStep partners with Clocktower Advisors
Checkstep is now partnering with Clocktower Advisors to provide strategic consulting around next generation AI-enabled moderation to online communities.
“Checkstep is truly a leap forward in AI-powered moderation tools for online communities. It’s not a replacement for but a supplement to human-powered community management and will provide much-needed relief to community professionals who are overburdened by their communities’ text and visual moderation needs,” said Todd Nilson, president of Clocktower Advisors.
“In the past, communities were created a little bit randomly, when a small group of passionate people met and grew to a significant size. Today, community creation is much more intentional, as organisations really see the benefit of social interactions, but are absolutely unaware of the best route to success. This is where Clocktower Advisors are amazing: they have the experience and the passion to do it, and to do it right.” said Guillaume Bouchard, CEO of Checkstep.
About Clocktower Advisors
Since 2015, Clocktower Advisors has helped clients across the globe to create and sustain thriving online community and digital workplace experiences.
As the uncertainties brought about by the global pandemic, economic and technological disruption force more organizations to increase their investments in remote work, meaningful collaboration, innovation, and online employee loyalty, Clocktower Advisors’ experience, thought leadership, and knowledge of leading practices in creating trust and building safe digital spaces has become more relevant than ever.
Clocktower Advisors has helped dozens of organizations worldwide from startups through Fortune 100 companies to plan, launch, and run online communities and digital workplaces.
About CheckStep
Our life is increasingly digital. Checkstep helps users adapt to this digital lifestyle by making the Internet a place where humanity is thriving. Checkstep provides online platforms with a Software as a Service solution that automates content moderation processes. The platform offers better visibility of trust and safety workflows using AI-first tools.
Checkstep was founded in 2020 by serial entrepreneur Guillaume Bouchard, Facebook’s former AI Integrity Manager in London, who successfully exited his first business, Bloomsbury AI, to Facebook in 2018, and by Jonathan Manfield, former Software Engineering Lead at JP Morgan with an initial focus on misinformation. The founders soon realized that the mission of creating an inclusive internet involves addressing all potential forms of online harm from hate speech, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to terrorist propaganda.
The company is backed by influential personalities of the tech industry from the U.S. and U.K., but also investors from France, Bulgaria and Singapore are backing Checkstep, including many previous founders of online platforms, such as Joe White MBE, co-founder of Moonfruit.com and British Consul General in San Francisco, Jon Oringer who founded Shutterstock, a leading stock photography provider, as well as technology specialists, such as William Tunstall-Pedoe, who founded Evi, which became Amazon Alexa, and Diana Hu, who leads the AR platform at Niantic the company behind Pokemon Go.
