Dear Klop,
Hope you’re well.
I would like to introduce TruthEngine®, an AI powered system that independently verifies companies’ online reviews and helps boost conversion rates, increase credibility, and ensure compliance with the new fake review laws. Reviews now influence not only buyer decisions but also how LLMs surface and rank brands in AI driven search, which makes authenticated review data more important than ever.
Around 70 percent of buyers check reviews before they buy, but trust in five star ratings is falling fast. Customers are spending more time looking for signals of authenticity and are increasingly sceptical of platforms that do not show independent verification. Buying behaviour is shifting toward brands that can prove their reviews are real and continuously monitored.
Regulation is creating a strong tailwind, although we are not relying on it. The CMA has begun enforcing the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and can issue fines of up to 10 percent of global turnover for fake reviews.
What TruthEngine® does
• Independently verifies reviews across major platforms and flags fake positives and fake negatives
• Provides authenticated, structured review data for AI and LLMs so brands are accurately represented inside AI generated recommendations
• Produces a defensible DMCC compliant audit trail for lawyers, boards and regulators
• Displays the TruthMark®, a badge that signals independently verified and continuously monitored reviews and is proven to lift conversion by up to 35 percent
Why it is attractive
• Large market: more than 5 billion reviews across B2C and B2B
• Simple model: paid authenticity audits plus a small per review monitoring fee
• Early traction: clients live, two major paid projects completed, six more in the pipeline
• Proven team: founders with 10 exits and proprietary in house AI trained on tens of millions of reviews
Current round
• Raise: £250k seed ( £4m pre money, EIS eligible )
• Use of funds: go to market acceleration to sign 10 to 30 clients within six months and scale commercial delivery
If this sounds of interest, we can arrange a 15 minute call with the team, I have also attached a short deck presentation to this email.
Kind regards
Richard
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