The 7-stage click validation journey
From raw click to verifiable receipt — every stage of the forensic pipeline, the 0-100 risk score, and what lands in the dispute package.
By T.J. Muro
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From raw click to verifiable receipt — the full forensic pipeline, the 0-100 risk score, and what lands in the dispute package.
The seven stages
- Capture — the click is recorded independently of the ad network
- Enrich — network, device, and delivery context attach to the event
- Inspect — behavioral, technical, and identity signals are evaluated
- Score — signals compose into a deterministic 0-100 risk score
- Classify — verified human, unverified, or synthetic
- Receipt — the decision and its evidence become a permanent, auditable record you can hand to a network rep
- Act — clean traffic feeds activation, flagged traffic feeds the dispute package
Why it is deterministic
The same evidence always produces the same score, and every component is inspectable. A verdict you cannot open is just another dashboard.