Running a reviews or testimonials program? Know what makes the practice risky before it goes live.
Paste your review wording. Get a severity-ranked pre-check against the published FTC rule — fake or bought reviews, undisclosed incentives, insider reviews, gating and suppression, company-controlled sites — before a review program becomes an FTC problem.
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Key Takeaways
- Review wording vs published Part 465 factors, severity-ranked.
- Actionable fix checklist — never a silent rewrite or auto-publish.
- Honesty: a heuristic pre-check — not a consumer-reviews certification.
Review wording first. Part 465 factors next.
Decision-support consumer-review ranks — not a certification and not a legal audit.
ReviewPrecheck — definition
ReviewPrecheck pre-checks how a business uses consumer reviews and testimonials against the FTC Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465) — fake or bought reviews, incentivized and insider reviews that omit a material-connection disclosure, review suppression or gating, and company-controlled review sites presented as independent — returning a scored, severity-ranked report with concrete edits before the reviews go live.
What this is NOT
- Not a consumer-reviews certification, account connector, or approval guarantee.
- Not a reviewer-identity verifier — whether a review is genuine or a disclosure is conspicuous is an advisory checklist item, never looked up.
- Not a substitute for legal review of FTC or consumer-law obligations.
Controller / Processor — When packs mention privacy roles, we use GDPR Art.4 labels: Controller and Processor (decision-support only).
Reviews published. Review practice challenged.
Fake or bought reviews
Fabricated reviews, or paying or giving free product for a review with no disclosure, are what 16 CFR 465.2 and § 465.4 target — and the FTC can pursue them without a prior warning.
Insider reviews passed off as customers
“Our team loves it” shown in a “customer reviews” block without a relationship disclosure is an insider-review problem under § 465.5 — it reads as independent feedback it is not.
Gating and suppressing negatives
Soliciting only happy customers or filtering out low-star reviews is exactly the review-suppression practice § 465.7 prohibits, even if some negatives appear elsewhere.
A company-controlled “independent” site
Your own review portal that looks unbiased but is owned and curated by you must say so — § 465.6 requires a clear company-control disclosure or the independence is misrepresented.
Paste. Scan. Fix.
Severity-ranked findings from your review wording against published Part 465 factors — including which practice needs a disclosure or has to stop.
Consumer-review findings
Fake/bought reviews, undisclosed incentives, insider reviews, suppression/gating, and company-controlled sites, each with quoted evidence.
Severity ranks
High / medium / low so you fix the FTC-ready gaps first.
Fix checklist
Actionable edits — you still own the final copy.
Copy-ready report
Markdown you can paste into a ticket or campaign thread.
Everything you need for a consumer-reviews pre-check
Built for brands and teams running review and testimonial programs every week.
Review-signal and disclosure detection
Fake/bought reviews, undisclosed incentives, insider reviews, suppression/gating, and company-controlled sites, each with quoted evidence.
Severity-ranked output
High / medium / low so you fix the FTC-ready gaps first.
Fix checklist included
Actionable edits — you still own the final copy.
Copy-ready
Markdown you can paste into a ticket or campaign thread.
From paste to pre-check report in 3 steps
Paste the wording
The exact review request, testimonials block, or review-page copy — plus practice type, channel, and disclosure.
Scan
Deterministic engine ranks findings by severity and checks each review signal for the disclosure or practice the rule expects.
Review
You edit the copy. ReviewPrecheck never rewrites or publishes.
Paste. Scan. Fix.
Severity-ranked findings from your review wording against published Part 465 factors — including which practice needs a disclosure or has to stop.
Fake or bought reviews
Fabricated reviews, or paying or giving free product for a review with no disclosure, are what 16 CFR 465.2 and § 465.4 target — and the FTC can pursue them without a prior warning.
Consumer-review findings — Fake/bought reviews, undisclosed incentives, insider reviews, suppression/gating, and company-controlled sites, each with quoted evidence.
Part 465 factors · deterministic disclosure logic · human review
Paste your review wording with practice type, channel and disclosure. Deterministic severity ranks first, each review signal checked for the disclosure or practice the rule expects. Optional AI never invents findings. You review before publishing.
Read the methodology →Paste-first consumer-review reports — not a compliance suite
| # | ReviewPrecheck | Manual Part 465 reading / banned-word lists |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wording vs review-practice factors in one paste | Hours reading rule explainers |
| 2 | Severity-ranked fix list with disclosure logic | Scattered checklist notes or an FTC letter |
| 3 | Self-serve from $19/mo | Enterprise compliance suites |
| 4 | Decision-support only | May over-promise approval guarantees |
Methodology before you ship
AI draft · human review · decision-support only.
Read methodology →Open studioTry it on this page
or generate below.
Saved history
Built for brands, growth and CX teams
Capability cards describe the studio. No fabricated customer counts.
A pasted review program becomes ranked findings against published Part 465 factors.
Practice type, channel and disclosure tune how aggressively fake-review and missing-disclosure risks escalate.
Every finding ships a suggested edit — you still decide.
Simple plans that scale
All paid plans include
- Consumer-reviews pre-check studio
- Severity-ranked export
- Rule-based checks (decision-support)
- Email support on paid plans — no hidden add-ons for core studio use
- Limited AI checks: 3/day · 15/mo (fair use)
- Studio demo (no extra LLM fee)
- AI included: 40 runs/day · 300/mo (fair use)
- No separate ChatGPT subscription required
- Priority support · 2 months free with yearly
Feature comparison
What each plan includes — quotas reflect the enforced fair use limits.
| Dimension | Free | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usage | |||
| AI runs | 3/day · 15/mo | 40/day · 300/mo | 200/day · 3,000/mo |
| Report export | Watermarked | Clean export | Clean export |
| Audit log | Not included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Product | |||
| Fake / bought reviews: “we pay for 5-star reviews,” fabricated or no-experience testimonials caught against § 465.2 | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Undisclosed incentives: “leave a review for a gift card / discount / free product” with no clear material-connection disclosure (§ 465.4) | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Insider reviews: “our team says…” presented as customer feedback without a relationship disclosure (§ 465.5) | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| Suppression & gating: only posting positive reviews or filtering out negatives (§ 465.7) | ✓ Included | ✓ Included | ✓ Included |
| BYOK (your LLM key) | Not included | Not included | ✓ |
| SSO | Not included | Not included | Roadmap |
| Support & compliance | |||
| Support | Community | Priority | Custom SLA |
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Your questions, answered
What does ReviewPrecheck check?
A scored, severity-ranked pre-check of one pasted review, testimonial, or review-site wording against the patterns the FTC Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465) describe — decision-support drafts, never a legal opinion.
Does a good score mean my review practices are compliant?
No. Lawfulness depends on the real facts — whether a reviewer had actual experience, whether a disclosure was shown clearly, and how the page renders — outside what any text checker can see. ReviewPrecheck only flags the published factors present in the wording you paste.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Self-serve plans cancel anytime; access continues until period end.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. Start with email signup or Demo mode in the studio, then upgrade when ready.
Do I need my own ChatGPT / OpenAI subscription?
No for Free/Pro. AI runs are included in your plan (fair use) via our platform key. Enterprise can optionally bring your own OpenAI key (BYOK) — configure it at /settings (key stays server-side only).
What is Fair Use / what if I hit the AI limit?
Free includes 3 AI checks/day and 15/month. Pro includes 40/day and 300/month. At the fair-use limit the studio returns a clear QUOTA_EXCEEDED notice with the reset time — the Rule-based demo keeps working; Enterprise BYOK covers heavier volume.
Is checkout secure?
Payments are processed by Waffo Pancake (merchant of record).
What happens after I pay?
You receive access confirmation; fulfillment is tracked via webhook + order logs.
Quick answers
- Ranked findings per run
- Part 465 aware
- Fake-review and missing-disclosure gaps flagged
- Copy-ready
- Pricing starts at $0 (Free).
More questions
What inputs?
The review wording (the exact published text), the practice type, the channel it appears on, whether a material connection is disclosed, and strictness.
Consumer-reviews guarantee?
No. Heuristic pre-check — not a consumer-reviews certification and not legal advice.
What comes back?
Ranked findings with quoted evidence — fake or bought reviews, undisclosed incentives and insider reviews, suppression/gating, and company-controlled sites — plus a fix checklist; always review.
Demo or live?
Demo is labelled; live wording needs a configured AI key.
Who is it for?
E-commerce and SaaS brands, growth and CX teams, and agencies running review or testimonial programs.
Primary sources?
Your pasted review wording and the published FTC Rule on the Use of Consumer Reviews and Testimonials (16 CFR Part 465).
Does it verify reviewer identity or the platform?
No — deliberately not. It never checks whether a reviewer is a real customer, whether a review is hosted independently, or whether a disclosure is conspicuous; those facts live outside the text.
Does it write my copy for me?
No. It judges only the wording you paste and suggests concrete fixes; you still write and publish.
How it compares
| Dimension | Manual | ReviewPrecheck |
|---|---|---|
| Speed | Hours reading Part 465 explainers | Seconds per review-program draft |
| Consistency | Varies by reviewer memory | Same Part 465 factors every run |
| Output | Free-form checklist notes | Structured pre-check report |
| Best for | Final sign-off | Pre-flight QA per review campaign |
When not to use: Skip it when you need a lawyer’s opinion on FTC exposure, verification that a reviewer is a real customer, confirmation of how a disclosure renders on the page, or automated publishing. This only pre-checks the review wording you paste.
- Where review practices get challenged — The places review and testimonial wording quietly trips the published FTC rule.
- Consumer-review checks that people do not learn to ignore — What to block on, what to warn on, and what to leave alone.
- What a consumer-reviews pre-check cannot see — The honest boundary between risky wording and a challenged review program.
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