Every community
needs a good ally.

Meet Bluey. A friendly companion with a serious purpose: helping your moderation team recognize possible criminal recruitment and give it the attention it deserves.

Meet your new ally See how Bluey helps

A little extra support for the people who care.

Good nose.
Good company.
Your community
moderationPrivate channel
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This message could use a closer look.

generalnova · 14:02
Easy money for a delivery tonight. Need someone young. Message me privately.
  • Payment offer
  • Youth targeting
  • Private contact
SamModerator

I’ll check the context. Thanks, Bluey.

Illustrative Discord conversation.

An ordinary message.
A reason to look closer.

The offer. The pressure. The request for privacy. See how separate clues become a review your team can explain.

It starts like an opportunity. The details change the picture.

A payment offer alone tells you little. Add youth targeting and a request for private contact, and your team has a clearer reason to review.

general
nova
Easy money for a quick delivery. Need someone young who can go tonight. Message me privately. Keep this between us.

Read the whole message. The urgency and request for secrecy also matter to the human review.

Bluey’s assessment

A combination worth investigating

Bluey surfaces the payment offer, youth targeting and private contact together. A moderator can inspect those reasons and check what the “delivery” refers to.

  • Payment offer
  • Youth targeting
  • Private contact

The flag includes its reasons. Your team decides whether to investigate, ask for context or dismiss it.

Illustrative examples, not a live scan. A flag is a reason to investigate, not a finding of wrongdoing.

A scientific approach.
Reasons you can inspect.

Heuristics are explicit rules for recognising patterns. Bluey brings those clues together into an assessment your team can question.

One connected team. A shared understanding.

Bluey brings content from selected Discord channels to Blue. Blue analyses the language and returns signals and context. Bluey shares findings with moderators, who review them and record their decision and feedback alongside the original content and assessment.

Your communitySelected Discord channels

Bluey

Your companion

Blue

The analysis engine

Moderators

People make the call

ContentSignals & contextFindings for reviewDecision & feedback
A shared audit trail

Original content, analysis and human review. Connected in one record.

Rules can miss recruitment or flag innocent messages. A signal starts a review; it doesn’t establish intent.

Better learning starts
with better expertise.

The people closest to recruitment understand what a phrase means, how approaches change, and when a warning looks like a threat.

We’re developing a learning model around that insight: expert-authored scenarios, independent review and evaluation on examples the model hasn’t seen.

The learning model is in development. Institutional contributors are welcome.

Bring your expertise
Our model-development approach
  1. 1

    Professional insight

    Safeguarding, crime-prevention and research professionals contribute realistic, authored scenarios.

  2. 2

    Independent review

    A second expert reviews the interpretation. Uncertain examples stay out of training.

  3. 3

    Learning and evaluation

    Candidate models learn from approved examples, then face unseen cases, benign messages and disguised language.

  4. 4

    A considered release

    Compare missed signals and false flags. Review the evidence before approving a new model version.

Human-reviewed examples. Traceable versions. Learning with oversight.

“It found something”
is only half the test.

A useful model must also recognise when a message is harmless. Our evaluation plan covers missed recruitment, false flags, disguised wording and legitimate safety discussions. Training and test examples are separated by scenario family to make the comparison more meaningful.

The research behind the questions

Text-perturbation research motivates testing beyond clean, predictable wording. NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework informs our emphasis on evaluation, domain expertise and human oversight.

A few good questions.

Who is Bluey for?

Bluey is for Discord community owners and moderation teams who want help recognising possible criminal recruitment. Get in touch to discuss your community and current availability.

Does Bluey replace our moderators?

Your team remains in charge. Bluey surfaces possible recruitment and the signals behind its assessment. People review the context and decide what to do. Bluey can miss content or flag something harmless.

Can Bluey read private conversations?

The server bot assesses content in the server channels selected and accessible to it. It does not provide passive access to members’ private direct messages.

How do we get started?

Tell us about your community at hello@getbluey.app. We can walk you through Bluey and discuss the current setup and availability.

Your expertise.
A safer community.

Work in safeguarding, research, crime prevention or community moderation? Let’s explore what Bluey could learn from your perspective.

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