Checkstep Information

Checkstep is the trusted AI content moderation software that helps global platforms detect harmful content, enforce policies, and stay compliant at scale. Combine powerful automation with human expertise to deliver safe, relevant, and compliant digital experiences. 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 company is backed by influential personalities of the tech industry from the U.S. and U.K., 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.