Exploitation is evolving online every day, and Street Grace is confronting that reality head-on. Through their platform, Transaction Intercept, they are able to use AI-powered bots to message potential buyers who respond to decoy exploitative ads. Once a buyer initiates the chat, the platform sends customized personas to engage, verify the user’s intentions, and then either allow law enforcement to take over the conversation to take action or deliver a deterrence message for demand reduction. This platform is also free to law enforcement and research bodies to use.
Transaction Intercept dramatically reduces the time, labor, and cost usually involved with human trafficking operations. It also builds a real-time database to track buyer behavior, trends, and geographic hotspots. This data collection process will provide a better picture of what the demand side of trafficking looks like.
• AI-Powered Intervention
Street Grace’s hybrid AI messaging system responds to and continues conversation with buyers in real-time and provides educational messaging regarding how buyer’s are contributing to human trafficking and the ramifications of their actions while facilitating a hand-off to law enforcement.
• Law Enforcement Collaboration
Street Grace trains law enforcement agencies and equips them with the knowledge to conduct digital sting operations using Transaction Intercept.
• Groundbreaking Research
Street Grace collects anonymous data on buyer behaviors, demographics, and geographic trends to support prevention strategies and policies that support survivor safety.
With support from The Jensen Project, Street Grace will bring Transaction Intercept to more than 30 states.
This will not only ensure deterrence on a national scale, but also act as an intelligence gathering. Online sex trafficking continues to escalate and change its strategy. But the response is incoming!
With GrantTank support, Street Grace will:
• Disrupt an estimated 47,500 illegal transactions
Street Grace is on pace to intervene 32,000 unique buyers in one year using Transaction Intercept, driving deterrence and justice.
• Equip law enforcement in 25 states
Train and support partner agencies across the U.S. to deploy this AI tool to help lower sting operation costs while increasing accountability.
• Deliver buyer behavior straight to the field
Build a first-of-its-kind buyers database with findings that will be shared with researchers, lawmakers, and advocates.
At The Jensen Project, we believe that ending trafficking requires addressing demand.
Street Grace is doing exactly that.
We were most impressed by:
• The use of technology to simplify law enforcement operations and breakdown silos.
• Their commitment to data, research, and measurable impact.
• The potential for this proprietary technology to shape national policy.
• Their unwavering focus on addressing exploitation before it starts.
Street Grace is putting a bright spotlight on buyers and helping dismantle the systems that allow them to hide and thrive online.
Interested in seeing Transaction Intercept in action?
Visit transactionintercept.org to view real-time data and explore how Street Grace is using technology to protect the vulnerable.
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