Classifies inbound user reports and routes against the policy taxonomy.
Activation complexity
Medium
Time to activate
12-16 days
Volume share
35-45% of role volume
Impact range
60-80% faster
Inherited pricing
€1.50 – €4.50 per Trust & Safety case handled
This capability inherits the Trust & Safety Specialist's pricing model. The role's launch fee + monthly retainer + role-level usage cover every capability under the role. Adding this capability to an active deployment does not change the price.
What this capability handles
Report Triage is the first thing the Trust & Safety Specialist does with every inbound report, and it sets the quality of everything downstream. Trust-and-safety queues drown in reports: they pile up, get mis-categorized, or land in the wrong place, so reviewer time gets spent on low-risk items while real harm waits. This capability solves that for marketplace, eCommerce, SaaS, subscription, and services operators between 100 and 1000 employees who need the queue read and ordered before anyone touches it. The outcome is a triaged, prioritized queue where the highest-severity reports surface first and every item carries a reason. It works in a clear sequence. It reads each report, classifies it against your policy taxonomy, prioritizes it on a severity rubric, routes it to the right queue, and logs the action. It runs inside your case management, report intake, and content-moderation tooling, with messaging for notifications. To do this it draws on the report records themselves, your documented policy taxonomy, user history, and prior case outcomes, so a repeat pattern is visible at intake rather than discovered later. For each report it produces a classification, a severity priority, a queue assignment, and a logged record. The decision logic is conservative and reviewable. It uses the policy taxonomy, the severity rubric, and user-history signals to choose one of three paths: auto-classify, route to a queue, or flag for the reviewer. It does not stretch past its evidence. Policy-ambiguous reports, repeat-offender cases, and severity-sensitive reports route to the reviewer for human review, so judgment calls stay with a person. Every action is logged and reviewable, which means a manager can trace why any report was classified and routed the way it was. Typical fit is straightforward: it lands cleanly once your policy taxonomy is documented, your case-management system is wired in, and your severity rubric is approved. Because every report passes through triage first, this is the load-bearing step of the role. Report-handle time is the primary measure, and triage compresses it by 60-80%. Of the specialist's total impact, 30-40% comes from report-triage cycle compression and policy-taxonomy fidelity, and triage carries 35-45% of role volume. That concentration is the point: get intake right, in your own systems, with a documented audit trail, and the rest of the queue moves faster and lands on the right people with the reasoning already attached.
Workflow summary
Reads report, classifies policy, prioritises severity, routes to queue.
Stages
Decision logic
Uses policy taxonomy, severity rubric, and user-history signals to decide auto-classify, route-to-queue, or flag for reviewer.
Systems and data
{"case management","report intake","content-moderation tooling",messaging}
{"report records","policy taxonomy","user history","prior case outcomes"}
Exceptions & human handoff
Policy-ambiguous reports, repeat-offender cases, and severity-sensitive reports route to the reviewer for review.
Policy ambiguity, severity-sensitive flag, or repeat-offender pattern.
Readiness
Policy taxonomy documented, case-management system wired, severity rubric approved.
Owner on client side · Head of Trust & Safety
Impact contribution
30-40% of role impact is report-triage cycle compression and policy-taxonomy fidelity.
Primary KPI · Report-handle time · 60-80% faster
When this capability shows up
Patterns where report triage is part of the launch set, with volume and pricing anchored to each company profile.
Two-sided marketplace with spiking dispute and report volume
Marketplaces · 200-500
700 / mo
A 350-person two-sided marketplace runs 700 T&S cases a month. Reports pile up by end of week. Fraud flags age in the dashboard. Reviewers context-switch across ten surfaces.
Trust & Safety Specialist activates report triage and fraud-signal review. Reports classify in minutes; fraud flags get reviewed daily; reviewers shift to policy-ambiguous and high-value work.
Expected outcomes at this volume: report-handle time down 60-80%, fraud-flag review daily on schedule, reviewer hours recovered weekly.
Monthly cost
€1.1k–€3.1k
vs human anchor
€3.7k–€11k
Savings
0–3%
eCommerce platform with dispute and listing-quality volume
eCommerce · 300-800
1,500 / mo
A 600-person eCommerce platform runs 1500 T&S cases a month across reports, disputes, listing audits, and fraud flags. Dispute cycles run 3-5 days. Listing-quality audits slip. Fraud review lags.
Trust & Safety Specialist activates all four capabilities. Triage lands in minutes; disputes resolve with policy citations; listing audits run on cadence; fraud review runs daily.
Expected outcomes: cycle-time reduction 50-65%, dispute cycle 50-70% faster, listing-audit coverage on schedule, fraud-flag review daily.
Monthly cost
€2.3k–€6.8k
vs human anchor
€7.8k–€24k
Savings
0–3%
Small subscriptions community with report and dispute backlog
Subscriptions · 40-100
300 / mo
A 60-person subscriptions platform runs 300 T&S cases a month. Reports queue up across weekends. Disputes cycle 3-5 days as policy references get pieced together by hand. A single reviewer carries the operation.
Trust & Safety Specialist activates report triage and dispute resolution. Reports classify in minutes with policy citations; disputes resolve with cited reasoning; the reviewer shifts to policy-ambiguous and high-value work.
Expected outcomes at this volume: report-handle time down 60-80%, dispute cycle 50-70% faster, reviewer hours recovered weekly.
Monthly cost
€450–€1.4k
vs human anchor
€1.4k–€5.0k
Savings
0–3%
Upper-mid marketplace with listing-quality and fraud pressure
Marketplaces · 500-1000
4,500 / mo
A 700-person marketplace runs 4500 T&S cases a month across reports, listing-quality audits and fraud flags. Seasonal volume breaks coverage. Listing audits slip. Fraud flags sit in the dashboard overnight.
Trust & Safety Specialist activates report triage, quality audit and fraud-signal review. Triage runs to policy in minutes; listing audits run on cadence; fraud flags get reviewed daily with context attached for reviewers.
Expected outcomes: cycle-time reduction 50-65%, listing-audit coverage on schedule, fraud-flag review daily, reviewer hours recovered weekly.
Monthly cost
€6.8k–€20k
vs human anchor
€23k–€71k
Savings
0–3%
All scenarios and cost ranges come from the Trust & Safety Specialist role page.
Capability-specific integrations
Beyond the Trust & Safety Specialist's base stack, this capability plugs into:
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