We are building the messaging platform for real, verified humans.
Scoop is solving three very painful problems that will define the next decade of communication.
1. The Growing Human Identity Crisis
There is a mounting human identity crisis in the age of bots. Today, the internet traffics is made up of only 50.2% humans and over 49.8% bots that are mostly bad bots. Unfortunately, those bots are not confined to public social networks like Meta or X. They are embedded deep inside the apps we depend on every day to connect and share critical information: WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, iMessage, GroupMe, and nearly every popular messaging platform you can name. With the rise of artificial intelligence, this problem isn’t going away; it is multiplying exponentially. In just a few years, it will become nearly impossible for ordinary people to tell if the person on the other side of the screen is real or an automated entity designed to manipulate, mislead, or exploit their attention. That is not progress. People need a way to communicate and build trust without constantly wondering, Is this message from a human or a bot? Is this community real or artificially inflated? This quiet erosion of confidence is already reshaping how people participate online, and it will only accelerate.
2. The Collapse of Large-Scale Community Communication
If you manage a large community, let’s say more than 5,000 members, the primary way to reach people today is still email or SMS marketing. Even in a world that is becoming more digitally connected by the hour, our core communication tools have barely evolved. Whether you are a university, a congregation, a sports organization, or any community that is large by nature, you are still forced to rely on the same outdated channels. But most emails today are never read. Messages arrive buried beneath endless spam and algorithmic noise, fighting for a few seconds of fractured attention. Worse, these channels were never designed to support real-time dialogue or foster any sense of belonging. When your members have thousands of bots and real humans competing in the same inbox, your messages simply vanish. Community engagement has never been more important, yet the infrastructure to do it well has never been more broken. It has become harder and more discouraging to keep people connected, informed, and inspired.
3. The Missed Opportunity of Direct Community Monetization
There is no doubt that community marketing is the next big funnel for brands to reach consumers. Yet when brands want to engage a trusted audience today, they have no real alternative to the same middlemen platforms like Meta, X, Snapchat, and TikTok, which charge a premium for access without guaranteeing authenticity. You never know if the views, clicks, or replies are coming from real humans or sophisticated bots. And brands, despite knowing this, have no other place to go. Imagine a company that wants to engage the student body or alumni base of the University of Cincinnati. Right now, the only viable approach is to geofence the campus and distribute ads through paid campaigns on social networks or ad exchanges. It is an indirect, impersonal process that erodes trust and delivers questionable results. Even more frustrating, the revenue from those campaigns goes to the platforms, not the communities that actually create the value. Universities and organizations own their communities, but someone else is monetizing them, and brands are forced to settle for this broken model. Behind every click, there is a gnawing uncertainty: Are these people even real? Is this money wasted? The gap between authentic community engagement and real revenue keeps growing, and no one seems to be closing the gap.
1. Solution to The Growing Human Identity Crisis
Scoop is building the very first mass messaging platform that allows only verified humans to participate. Anyone can sign up for Scoop to join a community or browse messages, but to actually engage—whether posting, replying, or interacting—every user must verify their human identity using our latest, cutting-edge verification technology. The process is simple, fast, and designed to feel almost invisible. Most people can complete it in under three minutes. If a user does not verify their identity within 30 days, their account is automatically deleted. This balance is intentional. Anyone can join and immediately start exploring, but participation requires trust, and trust requires proof you are a real person.
This is not some futuristic concept. It is happening now because the world urgently needs it. In a time when bots are flooding every corner of the internet, people deserve spaces where they never have to second-guess whether the person on the other end is real. Scoop’s vision is to become the go-to platform for real human connection, something no one else is solving in communication. The only parallel effort happening today is with organizations like Worldcoin, which are verifying human identity for financial infrastructure. We are taking that same spirit and applying it to the future of everyday communication. Because the question, “Is this person real?” should never be the barrier to meaningful conversation.
2. Solution to The Collapse of Large-Scale Community Communication
Scoop is reimagining the experience of mass communication for the modern world. Today, if you lead a large community, especially one with thousands or hundreds of thousands of members, your main tools are still email and SMS. They are clunky, outdated, and designed for a different era. In a university community, for example, communication stacks are fragmented: email blasts for announcements, SMS for urgent alerts, and scattered apps for occasional real-time messaging with smaller subgroups. The result is chaos. Messages go unread, members get overwhelmed, and meaningful engagement slips further out of reach.