What’s the problem?

Illegal abuse content — including CSAM (child sexual abuse materials) and content depicting trafficking victims — spreads online every day. Most of it doesn’t live on mainstream platforms. Instead, it circulates on shadow infrastructure: a fragmented network of intentionally obscure foreign run pirated properties like tube clones, offshore forums, and aggregators.

These sites are financially enabled by a complex web of ad networks, affiliate programs, and high-risk payment processors. Content stays up for weeks, months, years – even decades after takedown requests. There are no enforceable standards for what action is required, or how quickly it should happen.

What we’re doing

Prune weaponizes frontier AI models against the illegal sites laundering abuse through legitimate infrastructure providers.

Our tools empower law enforcement and litigators to trace monetization pathways — registrars, CDNs, ad networks, payment processors — and remove illegal content at scale with surgical, legally-grounded precision.

At the same time, we help platforms mitigate risk by offering lightweight compliance tools.

Our mission is to build a safer, more accountable internet — one where enforcement is narrowly targeted, evidence-based, and rooted in law.

We don’t charge victims and we never will. Our work is funded by platforms that want to act responsibly—and by the legal consequences for those that don’t.