GLOBAL LEADER IN CERTIFICATION AND ENTERPRISE RISK
Fostering Safe
Revenue Growth for
LegitScript certifies and monitors compliant businesses that want to grow in the regulated markets they serve, and gives payments companies and online platforms the confidence to enter high-risk categories safely.
Trusted by the World’s Largest Banks, Payments Providers, Online Platforms, and more than 10,000 Certified Businesses
Visa and Mastercard recognize LegitScript Certification as the trust standard for vetting high-risk merchants.
Avidia Bank
CareValidate
Corepay
Luqra
Maverick
Microsoft
Nextdoor
North
OnBuy.com
Recovery.com
Ro
Shift
West America Bank
WhiteLabel MD
Zoho
The LegitScript Difference
Data and Expertise to Support Decisions You Can Stand Behind
Our expertise makes our data more accurate, our AI more precise, and our clients more confident entering new markets and navigating emerging threats.
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Global Team of Experts
Deep regulatory expertise, wherever you operate.
Expertise in 60+ high-risk verticals, 500 regulatory bodies, 100+ countries, and 18 languages provides the coverage your team needs to enter new markets, enforce policy across jurisdictions, and defend every decision.
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Extensive Data
Proprietary risk intelligence built over 20 years.
Analyst-verified data spanning high-risk merchants, criminal networks, ad platforms, marketplaces, and social media, drawn from the commercial internet and continuously enriched by our own investigative work.
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Human-in-the-Loop
Expert analysis at the speed your team needs.
Human-in-the-loop AI pairs automated speed with analyst-verified accuracy, delivering risk signals and explainable recommendations your team can act on immediately and defend consistently.
The Numbers Behind the Mission
Our Solutions
Find the Right Solution for Your Business
Whether you manage a merchant portfolio, lead trust and safety for an online platform, or need certification to unlock advertising and payments, LegitScript has a solution for you.
Certification
Unlock Advertising and Accept Digital Payments
Get a recognized seal of approval that enables businesses to showcase compliance, unlock opportunities to advertise, and accept digital payments.
Healthcare Certification
Unlock advertising permissions on major search engines and social platforms and secure payment processing for your healthcare business, backed by a 3rd-party, independent certification that you meet the industry's compliance standards.
Addiction Treatment Certification
Get your recovery program in front of patients seeking care. LegitScript Certification is the credential major search engines and social platforms recognize, opening advertising access so the right people can find you.
CBD Certification
Provides manufacturers and retailers of hemp-derived CBD products a recognized way to demonstrate compliance with FDA, USDA, FTC, DEA, and state regulations, so they can bring cosmetics, soaps, topicals, and other compliant lines to market with confidence.
Enterprise Certification
Giving organizations with either large healthcare operations or those advising, building and launching healthcare businesses for their clients a faster, more efficient path to certification at scale.
Who We Serve
Online Pharmacies, Telehealth Companies, Substance Use Disorder and Behavioral Health Providers, CBD Businesses, Med Spas, Payments Organizations and many more!
Innovative providers who are invested in pioneering treatments recognize the overlap of mental health and addiction. Certification is a natural step for these providers to increase trust to expand patient reach.
– Dr. Anthony Kaveh, M.D., Co-Founder, Clarus Health
Merchant Risk Solutions
Manage Risk, Grow Your Portfolio
Underwrite faster, monitor continuously, and detect transaction laundering before it becomes a fine. Grow safely into high-margin verticals.
Merchant Underwriting
Helping underwriting teams streamline workflows and decisions, through a unified verification and underwriting platform that combines KYB, KYC, fraud detection, and LegitScript's proprietary merchant risk signals.
Merchant Monitoring
Offering payments companies ongoing, expert-verified monitoring that scans approved merchants for BRAM and VIRP violations, prohibited products, MCC mismatches, and policy breaches.
Healthcare Merchant Certification
Giving payments companies a faster, more reliable way to onboard high-risk healthcare merchants, reduce card brand risk across the portfolio, and provide merchants a clear, fast path to payment processing and advertising.
Mastercard Merchant Monitoring Program
Delivering payments companies pre-transaction website scans and persistent monitoring of restricted, members-only merchant content, with a documented audit trail ready for card network review.
Who We Serve
Acquiring Banks, ISOs, Payment Facilitators, Payment Service Providers, Sponsor Banks, Card Network Teams
Conservatively speaking — I am in risk after all — LegitScript's analysis was 500X better than what our current provider reported to us.
– Risk Leader at a Major US Acquiring Bank
Platform Risk Solutions
Stay Ahead of Emerging Risks
Catch the violative ads, sellers, and content that evade your detection controls, with expert-backed enforcement intelligence across the high-risk categories that matter.
Ad Monitoring
Providing online advertising platforms targeted and recurring, expert-led audits of live ads in specific high-risk categories to uncover violative paid content evading existing controls.
Marketplace Monitoring
Surfacing violative sellers, products, and evasion tactics on e-commerce marketplaces through targeted and recurring expert-led reviews of live listings in high-risk categories.
Who We Serve
Search Engines, Social Platforms, Marketplaces, Streaming & Media
Up to 74% decrease in new violations
– Following implementation of LegitScript Platform Monitoring and Risk Intelligence.
Risk Intelligence Solutions
Curated Data and Regulatory Expertise
Get actionable intelligence calibrated to your highest-risk verticals, powered by a global team of regulatory analysts, policy experts, and investigative researchers who develop policy, conduct deep research, and resolve complex edge cases.
Intel Reports
Forward-looking intelligence and expert regulatory guidance help you anticipate risks, mitigate threats, and make confident compliance decisions.
Risk & Policy Advisory
An annual retainer that gives Risk, Compliance, Policy, and Trust & Safety teams a reserve of specialized research and advisory hours to draw on whenever they're needed.
Data Lookups
The premier source for risk information providing reliable product and website information that is continually updated by our team of regulatory experts.
Who We Serve
Payments Companies, Banks, Card Network Teams, Search Engines, Social Platforms, Marketplaces, Streaming & Media
We work with LegitScript to understand what is happening industry wide. They help us assess the regulatory risk, the legal risk, but also the harm risk. They also help us keep abreast of the ever-evolving regulatory landscapes.
– Global Online Platform
Security & Trust
Enterprise-grade Security Is Built Into Everything We Do
As the leader in monitoring and certification for high-risk industries, we apply the same high standards to our own operations. We ensure our security practices are as rigorous as the expectations we set for the market.
Certification seals:
- SOC 2 Type 2 — annual third-party audit
- ISO 27001 : 2022 — international ISMS standard
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Frequently Asked Questions
Answers for Risk & Compliance and Trust & Safety Leaders
What does LegitScript do?
LegitScript is a leading risk and compliance platform that helps payment companies, e-Commerce marketplaces and online platforms, manage high-risk merchants, products and advertisers. We combine 20 years of proprietary risk data, AI-powered decisioning, and human regulatory experts to identify bad actors and give our clients the intelligence they need to stay ahead of emerging risks and prevent fraud. Our work covers three lines of business: Merchant Risk Solutions, Platform Risk Solutions, and LegitScript Certification for healthcare, online pharmacies, telehealth, and substance abuse treatment programs.
Who needs LegitScript Certification?
Businesses in regulated verticals, including healthcare, telehealth, online pharmacies, addiction treatment, and CBD, need LegitScript Certification to advertise on major platforms like Google, Meta, and LinkedIn, and to maintain payment processing under Visa MCC 5122 and 5912 requirements. Online platforms and payment networks recognize LegitScript Certification as the standard for vetting high-risk merchants and advertisers.
How is LegitScript Merchant Risk Solutions different from other underwriting and merchant monitoring tools?
What makes LegitScript Merchant Risk Solutions unique is that we combine advanced AI technology, proprietary merchant intelligence from across the commercial internet, and deep analyst and policy expertise to deliver robust end-to-end merchant risk management. AI-only solutions have shallow risk intelligence and limited regulatory expertise.
Our Merchant Underwriting and Merchant Monitoring solutions help acquirers, payment facilitators, and ISOs maintain a comprehensive view of risk throughout a merchant's life cycle so you can underwrite faster, decision more accurately, and monitor merchant risk for as long as they stay in your portfolio.
How does LegitScript support social media companies, online advertising platforms, and e-commerce marketplaces?
LegitScript’s Platform Risk Solutions help online platforms fortify their trust and safety efforts by providing ad and marketplace monitoring at scale, risk intelligence to stay abreast of trends, and expert advisory for policy support.
We help search engines, marketplaces, and social platforms uncover high-risk ads, product listings, and user-generated content that violate policies or exploit policy and enforcement blind spots. Our solutions deliver expert-backed, enforcement-ready results tailored to your platform and goals, enabling faster action, clearer visibility, and more effective trust and safety operations so that you can grow more confidently.
