/work-with-creators-creator-vetting

name: work-with-creators-creator-vetting
description: >-
  Vets creators you have already named from their public pages. Covers the median views of their last
  12 to 20 posts (sponsored and organic apart), a read of their comments, how often they post,
  audience fit with how sure it is, about 12 months of brand-safety checks, rival partnerships and
  rules for regulated categories. Gives a verdict with dated numbers for each one. Use alone when you
  already have the creator handles and the brand's goal; otherwise run work-with-creators.
version: 0.1.0

creator-vetting

**Reads:** finalists; the persona and goal; signed-off claims and never-says (to spot conflicting past claims); competitor list; `../work-with-creators/references/vetting.md`; `../work-with-creators/references/data-sources.md`.

**Does, per finalist** — at the depth set in discovery (full, light, UGC rubric, B2B branch; see section 0 of the reference). **Free first:** everything below is done from the public profile and post pages in the host browser (reference §15 says what each platform shows logged-out), labelled "public-page read <date>". What a page hides (views on some platforms, comments behind a login, audience countries, transcripts) is listed for the paid top-up, never guessed. 1. Read the profile and the last 12–20 posts on the main platform; drop pinned, giveaway and too-fresh posts; split sponsored and organic. 2. Compute median views, view rate, engagement on the right basis for the platform, sponsored ÷ organic, mean ÷ median, cadence. 3. Read the visible comments on 2–3 posts in the free pass (50–100 across ~5 posts in a top-up); record the share of generic/bot-like comments, self-descriptions, purchase questions, language and place signals. 4. Audience fit: evidence and a confidence level (high / medium / low), from what people say about themselves — quoted and counted. Audience countries only for reach/install roles, top five at most. UGC-for-ads: skip audience; judge hooks (transcripts), product handling, past brand-ad work, portfolio, turnaround, honesty risk; mark delivery "not watched" and record 2–3 video links for the human. 5. Brand safety: one web name search per shortlisted pick is part of the free pass — always run it ("<name> scam / apology / drama / controversy"); then ~12 months of captions and a few transcripts; a name search with "scam / apology / drama / controversy" (if no search ran, the verdict says "captions and comments only"); past claims the brand could never make. 6. Conflicts: competitor partnership ads, competitor tags in the last 3–6 months. 7. Regulated and minors checks per the reference; any fail → out. 8. Write the verdict line (the shape at the end of the reference). Fails become near-misses with the number that failed.

**Writes:** a verdict per finalist with all numbers, `vetted_on` date and post links; near-misses with reasons.

**Rules:** no number, no verdict. Label all authenticity findings "signals, not verified". Never infer ethnicity, age, gender, skin tone or health from images or names. No business-contact lookups here — they wait until the human approves the names.