From the founder

Marketing review used to work because marketing used to be slow

I built Kouro as the intake layer I needed when I worked inside those approval flows — and watched them get outgrown.

Why I built it

When a campaign was one billboard planned a month ahead, "every creative passes legal" was a reasonable rule — I've worked inside those approval flows, and nothing shipped unseen. But that's not how ads work anymore: audiences are segmented to micro, A/B tests spin up new creatives daily, every variant carries its own claims — and you multiply that across dozens of ad accounts, plus affiliate accounts you don't even control.

Approve-each-one didn't get neglected; it got outgrown. In big structures the flow becomes the bottleneck everyone quietly routes around; in fast-moving companies it never exists at all. Either way, most creatives ship unseen — not because anyone is careless, but because nobody rebuilt the review step for the speed of testing.

And the cost isn't hypothetical: one bad creative doesn't just get rejected — it strikes the account. Enough strikes, and the account is gone, with its pixel history and audiences.

Kouro is the intake layer I needed then: it screens every asset in seconds against the patterns platforms and regulators actually punish, and routes to a human only what deserves a human — with the rule and the precedent already attached.

It's not a lawyer, and it never pretends to be. For founders, it's the screening pass before the counsel call. For compliance teams, it decides what deserves you.

V
Valentyna
Founder, Kouro
What we believe

Three things guide every decision

Plain language, always

If a flag needs a law degree to understand, we've failed. Every issue is written for the person who has to fix it.

Your work stays yours

Image text is read on-device. Nothing is stored without an account. We're a checkpoint, not a data funnel.

Honest about our limits

Kouro is screening software, not a lawyer. We flag patterns worth a second look — we never pretend to be legal sign-off.

FTC & ASA
real rulings behind the checks, not generic guidelines
~10s
to a plain-language verdict on your copy
$0
for your first check — no signup, no card
Why "Kouro"

航路 (kouro): a marine or air shipping route — the course or line a ship or aircraft is actually on, not just where it ends up. That's the name, taken plainly: not a verdict, a route. Every metaphor in the product — courses, flags, safe harbors — comes from the same place: helping you get where you're going without running aground.

Check the thing you're worried about

Your first check is free — no account, nothing stored.

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