Introducing Kayle

Kayle started as a school project back in February of 2023; since then, we’ve experimented with different approaches to content moderation, we’ve spoken to stakeholders of all sizes and iterated to reach the degree of understanding that a content moderation platform needs to have.

Our mission

When we were children, the Internet exposed us to material that is still too difficult to describe and that we should never have seen.

As time goes on, we still continue to witness the worst in humanity despite using platforms that promised to uphold users’ safety.

This must stop.

That’s why we’re building Kayle to prevent harmful content from being easily accessible and to protect everyone, especially children.

What we’ve learnt

In the past year and a half, we’ve learned that several factors can make or break a content moderation service.

Pricing

The biggest factor is cost.

From speaking with those who need content moderation, we continue to see that the most significant reason they opt out of using any form of content moderation is the cost of implementing it.

At Kayle, we’re going to change that.

Content moderation should be affordable—even at much higher usage levels.

User experience

A commonly overlooked factor is the user experience (UX) of:

1. A platform’s users
2. Their moderators
3. Their stakeholders

Here’s why:

1. Whether reports go unaddressed or user content gets inaccurately removed, poor moderation ruins the culture of user community, causing users to migrate to alternative platforms.
2. Most platforms take weeks to get used to. To avoid costly mistakes, moderators need a platform that can be used effectively as soon as they log in. No user manuals, no pricey consultation calls, just get started immediately.
3. Stakeholders need a reliable service that can give them peace of mind, knowing their platform is safe, so they can focus on improving their product.

A successful content moderation platform must consider all of these users.

Developer experience

Another commonly overlooked factor is developer experience.

Excellent developer experience (DX) is crucial for any software-based company, and a content moderation platform is no exception.

Most software-based companies use cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform. Many of our waitlist members have complained about how the complexity of cloud platforms force their hand to hire specialists and watch their costs skyrocket.

It’s the developers who build platforms, not the content moderators.

What we’re doing

We’re building Kayle to be the go-to content moderation platform in the world.

And we’re building Kayle in public with our entire codebase open-source for several reasons:

• Anyone should be able to contribute to Kayle.
• Everyone needing content moderation should be able to access the service without using our cloud platform (i.e., anyone should be able to self-host Kayle).

Our plans

Over the coming months, we’ll be rolling out the necessities (and more) for a content moderation platform.

So far, we’ve released the Moderation API for text, audio, and images, with video, document, and URL moderation coming soon.

We’ll be upgrading our dashboard for moderators to have a better experience when moderating content, and we’ll be adding more things to the dashboard, such as:

• Reports
• Analytics
• User management

Further down the line, we’ll be introducing some more useful tools:

• Kayle Predator—a tool to catch child predators before they hurt any child.
• Kayle Shield—a tool to identify individuals vulnerable to radicalisation and support them before they cause harm.
• Kayle Hunter—a tool that allows the community to find and report unflagged content.
• Kayle Apps—multiple apps for various services such as Discord and Reddit that help automatically moderate communities.

We’ll soon start onboarding beta testers from our waitlist—join if you haven’t already!

If you have any questions, reach out to us at [email protected]!