Tuteliq in the UK — Kognos TEI

Why now

The Online Safety Act changed the question.

UK platforms with young users no longer face a reputational choice about child safety — they face a regulatory one. Ofcom's codes under the Online Safety Act require services likely to be accessed by children to assess risk, put proportionate protections in place, and demonstrate that those protections work.

That last word is the hard part. Age gates and keyword filters are easy to point at and easy to get around. What regulators, parents and platforms increasingly want is evidence that harmful behaviour — not just harmful words — is being detected and acted on. That is precisely what Tuteliq does.

A lifeguard watching over children playing in the sea — protection that never interrupts the play — Protection that never interrupts the play — present, watchful, and invisible to the people it protects.

What Tuteliq detects

Behaviour, not blocklists.

Tuteliq analyses interaction patterns rather than relying on keyword lists. It recognises the behavioural signatures of harm and flags them to the platform's trust-and-safety operation while there is still time to intervene.

Grooming & predation

The behavioural patterns of predatory contact, identified as they develop rather than after a report.

Bullying & harassment

Sustained targeting and pile-on behaviour across chat and community spaces.

Self-harm signals

Indicators of risk surfaced to the platform's safeguarding workflow for human intervention.

Fraud & scams

Financial exploitation targeting young users — from gifting scams to account takeover setups.

Radicalisation

Recruitment and extremist-influence patterns in youth-facing communities.

Synthetic media & CSAM

Detection of illegal imagery and AI-generated abuse material across uploaded and shared content.

Delivered as an API across five modalities:
TextVoiceImageVideoDocument analysis

Because it's an API, Tuteliq sits inside the platform's existing architecture. There's no new moderation console to adopt, no rip-and-replace of the trust-and-safety stack, and no user-facing friction. The platform keeps its workflow; Tuteliq makes it see more. Customer content is never retained and never used for model training. Alongside detection, Tuteliq provides multi-layered age and identity verification — directly relevant to the age-assurance duties in Ofcom's Online Safety Act codes.

Tuteliq is a member of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK's leading body for the removal of child sexual abuse material — a vetted membership granted to organisations with a demonstrated role in child protection.

Built for the regulatory landscape

UK Online Safety ActEU Digital Services ActGDPR Art. 8Age-Appropriate Design CodeKOSA (US)COPPA (US)

Who it's for

The platforms young people actually use.

Games studios & platforms

Live-service games, virtual worlds and anywhere with open chat and young players. This is where Tuteliq grew up, and where its references are strongest.

Social discovery & youth platforms

Services built around meeting new people carry the highest inherent risk and the sharpest regulatory attention. Behavioural detection is the difference between policy and protection.

Edtech

Classroom platforms, tutoring marketplaces and learning communities hold a duty of care that predates the Act. Tuteliq lets them demonstrate it.

Two companies, one deployment

Tuteliq is the technology. Kognos TEI is the UK operation.

Tuteliq brings

The detection engine.

Proven AI safety technology, live at scale with major games companies, with sub-400ms response, zero data retention and EU data residency — and a roadmap driven by the people who built it.

Kognos TEI

One of Tuteliq's sales and marketing partners.

Kognos TEI works as one of Tuteliq's sales and marketing partners, bringing Tuteliq's technology to UK businesses and into your existing trust-and-safety architecture — with UK contracting, and first-line support in UK hours.

Child safety that works where children actually are.