No. Public data only. No login, no app authorization, no follow request, no notification to the audited account. The audit runs entirely on signals any visitor to the profile can already see — nothing on our side ever connects to the account being audited, and the account owner has no way to know the audit was run.

The audit uses public engagement signals — the same kind of signals every reputable audience-authenticity check relies on. No audit identifies every single bot, including paid-API tools. Public-data audits consistently identify ghost, inactive, and bot-pattern accounts at a confidence level brands use to renegotiate partnership rates, and every report is reviewed by a human analyst against our internal niche benchmarks before delivery. The output is a defensible number you can put on a contract, not a black-box score from a model.

Ghost followers are real accounts that follow but never engage — no likes, no comments, no story views, no profile visits over the analyzed window. Inactive followers are accounts that haven’t posted, logged in, or engaged anywhere on the platform in the analyzed window. Both reduce real reach, but they fail differently — ghost followers are visible-but-dormant audience, inactive followers are functionally gone. The audit separates them into their own columns and flags them with different category codes in the Excel file, so the partnership pricing math reflects the actual mix.

Yes — that’s the most common use of the audit. The audited account never sees a follow request, a notification, or any other interaction. The audit runs silently on public data, and the influencer will not know you ran it. You receive the ghost-follower Excel and the analysis report within five business days, typically before contract sign-off, with a Real Audience Ratio™ you can use to renegotiate the partnership rate against the actual addressable audience instead of the displayed follower count.

Yes — order each one separately. Pricing is linear: five 200k-follower creators totals $1,000, all delivered the same week. There is no volume discount, no bulk tier, and no subscription — the linear price is the offer. Agencies running shortlist vetting typically order three to five audits at once, and the consistent methodology across every report is the point: same week, same standard, defensible across the entire shortlist instead of one creator at a time from one black-box score and the next from a different one.

Yes — the files belong to you. Brands attach the analysis report to partnership contracts as a pricing anchor. Agencies file the ghost-follower list with their due-diligence records. Creators forward their own audit to sponsors as part of a media kit, especially when the True Engagement Multiplier™ shows the real audience engages harder than the public number suggests. Three intended uses, one report — no portal, no log-in to view it, no expiry.