PlutoBa

PlutoBa is your AI-powered intelligence layer for influencer marketing, designed to bring speed and confidence to the vetting process. Built specifically for Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brands, marketing managers, and agencies, it solves a critical problem: finding influencers is easy, but knowing which ones to trust isn't. Instead of spending hours manually scrolling through feeds, checking comments, and guessing at fair rates, you can get a comprehensive, data-backed assessment of any creator in under two minutes. Simply enter a handle from TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, and PlutoBa's AI analyzes 100 posts and over 300 comments to deliver a multi-dimensional PlutoBa Score. This score covers fake follower detection, engagement quality, brand safety, audience authenticity, and more. It's not a discovery tool—it's the essential vetting step that ensures every partnership you pursue is built on solid data, not just gut feeling or inflated follower counts. Plus, it turns that deep assessment into actionable tools like AI-generated campaign briefs and rate benchmarking, helping you negotiate from a position of strength.

Deep Assessment & 7-Dimension Scoring

PlutoBa's core feature is its Deep Assessment, which analyzes a creator's profile across seven key dimensions in under two minutes. By examining 100 posts and over 300 comments, it generates scores for Audience Authenticity, Comment Authenticity, Engagement Quality, Brand Safety, Content Consistency, Posting Patterns, and Rate Benchmarking. This gives you a holistic, 0-100 PlutoBa Score and a clear verdict—Proceed, Caution, or Avoid—so you can make partnership decisions with unparalleled confidence and clarity.

Fake Follower & Audience Authenticity Detection

This feature digs beneath the surface of a creator's follower count to reveal the real story. PlutoBa's AI detects signs of inauthentic growth, such as purchased followers or engagement pods, and flags accounts where a high percentage of the audience is likely fake. It also analyzes comment patterns to see if the engagement is genuine or automated. This protects your budget by ensuring your ad spend reaches real, potential customers instead of bots.

AI-Generated Campaign Briefs & Rate Benchmarking

After a Deep Assessment, PlutoBa doesn't just give you a score; it helps you act on it. The platform uses the same data to generate a tailored campaign brief for the creator, complete with content guidelines and deliverable recommendations. Crucially, it provides a data-backed fair rate benchmark based on the creator's real, verified engagement and niche, empowering you to negotiate fair prices and avoid significant overpayment.

Brand Safety & Content Risk Analysis

Protecting your brand's reputation is paramount. PlutoBa's Brand Safety scan analyzes a creator's recent content for potential red flags like profanity, controversial topics, or mentions of competitors. This proactive check helps you avoid the nightmare scenario of a brand-inappropriate post from a partner undoing months of careful brand building, allowing you to partner with creators whose values align with your own.

Vetting High-Quote Creators Before Signing

When a creator with 250K followers quotes $2,000 per post, it's tempting to say yes based on their polished feed. Use PlutoBa to run a Deep Assessment first. You might discover their audience is largely fake and their engagement is low quality, revealing the quote is a massive overpay. This allows you to either walk away or negotiate a fair, data-backed rate, saving thousands per partnership.

Protecting Brand Reputation for Family-Friendly Companies

For brands in wellness, family, or other sensitive niches, a creator's past content can be a landmine. Before partnering, use PlutoBa's Brand Safety analysis to scan for hidden controversies, profanity, or conflicting brand affiliations. This ensures the creator's public persona and content history are truly aligned with your brand's image and values, preventing potential PR issues.

Streamlining Agency Workflows for Client Reporting

Agencies managing multiple clients need to vet creators efficiently and justify their recommendations. PlutoBa standardizes the vetting process, providing a consistent, data-rich report for every creator. The clear PlutoBa Score and breakdown of strengths/risks make client communications faster and more credible, demonstrating thorough due diligence and building trust.

Negotiating Fair Rates with Data-Backed Evidence

Instead of guessing or relying on industry rate cards, use PlutoBa's rate benchmarking feature. When a creator provides a quote, you can counter with a fair rate calculated from their actual verified engagement metrics, follower tier, and niche performance. This turns negotiations from a subjective debate into an objective, data-driven conversation, ensuring you pay for real value.

What platforms does PlutoBa support?

PlutoBa currently supports vetting for creators on three major platforms: TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. You can enter any public handle from these platforms to run a Standard fetch or a comprehensive Deep Assessment without needing the creator to sign up or grant special access.

What's the difference between a Standard and a Deep Assessment?

A Standard assessment is a quick, preliminary fetch of a creator's public profile data. A Deep Assessment is the full, powerful analysis that takes under two minutes. It involves the AI analyzing 100 of the creator's posts and over 300 comments to generate the detailed 7-dimension PlutoBa Score, rate benchmarks, and AI briefs. Pricing plans include monthly quotas for both types.

How accurate is the fake follower detection?

PlutoBa's AI is trained to identify patterns and signals commonly associated with inauthentic audiences, such as sudden follower spikes, bot-like comment patterns, and anomalous engagement ratios. While no tool can claim 100% accuracy, it provides a highly reliable indicator of "Likely Fake" or "Authentic" audiences, giving you a critical data point that is impossible to gauge manually with confidence.

Is there a free trial?

Yes! PlutoBa offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required to start. The trial includes access to the platform's features, allowing you to perform Deep Assessments and experience the full vetting workflow to see how it can fit into your process before committing to a paid plan.

PlutoBa offers tiered pricing plans designed to scale with your needs, each including a mix of Standard and Deep Assessments per month.

Starter ($69/month): Includes 50 Standard + 5 Deep Assessments monthly, the full PlutoBa Score on every check, 100 profile fetches, a CRM for 25 creators, AI outreach tools, rate benchmarks, and up to 2 active campaigns. Unused assessments roll over for one month.

Growth ($159/month - Most Popular): Includes 200 Standard + 30 Deep Assessments monthly. It has all Starter features plus 500 profile fetches, a CRM for 100 creators, support for 3 team members, up to 10 active campaigns, and one-month quota rollover.

Scale ($299/month): Includes 500 Standard + 60 Deep Assessments monthly. It includes everything in the Growth plan, plus 1,000 profile fetches, a CRM for 500 creators, support for 10 team members, unlimited active campaigns, and one-month rollover.

All plans start with a 7-day free trial that requires no credit card.