Public consumer tool · in-house build · open data
In production

Sifotech in-house pilot

UK consumers losing £1.2bn a year to scams have no neutral, council-grade place to check a suspicious link, screenshot or voice note.

/// The brief

What they asked for.

We piloted a free scam-check as a public-good tool: any UK adult can use it without an account. The bet was that consumers don't want yet another paid cybersecurity dashboard — they want a one-shot verdict on the message they just received, in plain English, with the reasoning shown.

The product had to handle four input modes (text, URL, image, voice), classify into thirteen UK-relevant scam categories (impersonation, smishing, romance, marketplace, AI-cloned voice and more), and explain itself well enough for a 75-year-old to follow. It also had to be transparent enough that a council or charity could white-label it on their own domain.

We built it in the open with a public funding scoreboard. It's the evidence base behind our Cyber Runway / DSIT grant track.

/// What we shipped

Built and in production.

Multi-modal scan input: text, URL, image, voice note
13-category UK scam taxonomy with plain-English verdicts
Elderly-accessible large-text mode
Public funding scoreboard at /admin/stats
Household + small-business paid tiers
Council / charity white-label skin
Reportable scan history per user
/// Outcome

Real numbers, not demos.

Scam categories
0
Input modes
0
Languages supported
5+
Status
Live, public
/// In their words

A UK-built, council-grade scam-check that doesn't ask Grandma for an account. The public funding scoreboard means nothing is hidden behind a pitch deck.

— Sifotech engineering
/// Time to live
6 weeks
Concept to production with real users on the platform.
/// Tech stack
Modern TypeScript web stackSifotech AI (structured verdicts)Production databasePayments + transactional email
Same engineering standards we run our own products on — modern web stack, UK-hosted, AI where it earns its place.
/// What next?

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