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Introducing AgoraVision

Introducing AgoraVision!

We’re excited to provide rights owners with greater visibility into the market, especially as to the impact of their
anti-counterfeiting and brand protection initiatives
Kevin Bearden, Director of Operations and product leader for AgoraVision

BCGuardian began its story developing novel anti-counterfeiting solutions for the world’s leading educational publishers. Nearly a decade later, we’re continuing to redefine what can be achieved by rights owners determined to eliminate the risk that counterfeits pose to their businesses and to their customers’ safety.

We’re proud to announce the launch of AgoraVision – the only AI-powered anti-counterfeiting platform backed by data from tens of thousands of verified test purchases.

AgoraVision’s proprietary machine learning algorithms provide predictive analytics surrounding the greatest risks of counterfeit and other unauthorized distributions, all while offering an end-to-end solution for enforcement and matter management. AgoraVision also provides insights into the competitive landscape like never before, demonstrating how rights owners’ and authorized distribution partners’ offers perform relative to high-risk offers from both vetted and unvetted sources.

“We’ve spent the last eight years refining our approach to identifying and delisting offers for counterfeit products. AgoraVision is the culmination of those efforts.” says Kevin Bearden, Director of Operations and product leader for AgoraVision. Bearden adds, “We’re excited to provide rights owners with greater visibility into the market, especially as to the impact of their anti-counterfeiting and brand protection initiatives.”

With AgoraVision, rights owners receive:

Real-time insights into activity on leading third-party marketplaces, helping to identify price anomalies and high-risk offers.
Product-level risk assessment to determine which assets face the greatest risk of exposure.
Comprehensive product-level data, including movements in pricing, offer volume, merchants offering tracked products, and Buy Box monitoring.
Access to analytics and preserved evidence surrounding confirmed distribution of counterfeit goods.

AgoraVision is live on selected marketplaces and is available to rights owners now! To schedule a demo or to learn how AgoraVision can support your brand and content protection objectives, contact us at Protection@BCGuardian.com or reach out directly to your BCGuardian account representative!

BCGuardian Launches Verus, a First-of-its-kind AI Content Intelligence Platform

Mike Candore

BCGuardian Launches Verus, a First-of-its-kind AI Content Intelligence Platform

Verus encourages ethical practices in LLM training by empowering rights owners to ensure their intellectual property rights are respected.

For nearly a decade, BCGuardian has supported rights owners to ensure fair compensation for creators’ efforts. The challenges we face have evolved, but the objectives have largely remained the same – limit the visibility and reach of unauthorized content on the web.

Achieving these objectives relies, to varying extents, on a process of notice-and-takedown. However, the most urgent content protection challenge today is not one to be fought under the existing notice-and-takedown paradigm.

The rapid pace of AI development, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is surpassing rights owners’ current content protection strategies. LLMs are training on rights owners’ protected content, raising critical challenges which cannot be addressed through an outdated model of detection and enforcement.

This is why we created Verus.

Verus is a first-of-its-kind AI Content Intelligence Platform. It provides rights owners insight into the use of their content by nearly a dozen of the market’s leading LLMs. At the core of Verus is a proprietary interrogation algorithm which samples content from authorized works to determine the likelihood of inclusion within a model’s training data.

Verus also offers features for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enabled models and for model output matching. Our module for RAG-enabled models facilitates the detection of content retrieved from online sources which is synthesized into responses. The output module detects reproduction of content in LLM responses. Such output can be generated following prompting of models by Verus or delivered by rights owners through our BYOO (“Bring Your Own Output”) feature.

Verus offers rights owners the opportunity to take a significant step toward solving the challenge of uncompensated use of copyrighted content in AI training.

Verus achieves this by providing rights owners with quantifiable and replicable data related to the use of their content within LLMs. It provides the evidentiary support required for audits of licensed content or for legal escalation related to unlicensed content. Verus enables advocacy by rights owners and trade organizations by providing data to support industry standards. It enables rights owners to signal transparently to internal and external stakeholders about their content’s exposure to unauthorized training. And most importantly, Verus encourages ethical practices in LLM training by empowering rights owners to ensure their intellectual property rights are respected.

We believe in adequate compensation for rights owners’ contributions to the tremendous potential AI unlocks. Verus is the tool to provide rights owners the intelligence required to navigate the intersection of AI innovation and copyright protection.

We’re thrilled to debut Verus, and hope you will be a part of the story.