# Kaminari Ad

> Kaminari Ad is an AI-first ad verification and ad security platform. It scans ad creatives, ad tags, landing pages and redirect chains on real iPhone, Android and desktop devices over residential IPs in 195+ countries, and returns a verdict with full evidence.

- Detects malvertising, cloaking, auto-redirects and forced redirects, crypto and investment scams, phishing, and ad policy violations (including IAB categories).
- Custom policies are written in plain English and enforced by AI, alongside system tags grouped into violation categories.
- Every redirect-chain URL is checked against multi-source domain and URL reputation intelligence.
- Built for ad networks, publishers, affiliate networks and compliance teams. Integrations: REST API, webhooks, email, Slack, Telegram, and an MCP server for AI assistants.
- Pricing is pay per scan, with no seats or minimums.
- Sister product: Kaminari Click (https://kaminari.click) — anti-fraud for incoming traffic.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://kaminari.ad/): Product overview
- [Products](https://kaminari.ad/products): Real-device scanning, rules engine, domain reputation, API
- [Solutions](https://kaminari.ad/solutions): Playbooks for ad networks, publishers, affiliate networks, compliance teams
- [Detections](https://kaminari.ad/detections): Malvertising, cloaking, auto-redirect and scam detection categories
- [Pricing](https://kaminari.ad/pricing): Pay-per-scan plans
- [MCP server](https://kaminari.ad/mcp): Manage ad verification from AI assistants
- [Docs](https://kaminari.ad/docs): Help center and developer documentation
- [Blog](https://kaminari.ad/blog): Malvertising threat research

## Docs: Getting Started

- [What is Kaminari Ad](https://kaminari.ad/docs/getting-started/what-is-kaminari-ad): An overview of Kaminari Ad — AI-powered ad verification that detects malvertising, scams, and policy violations before they reach your users.
- [Core concepts](https://kaminari.ad/docs/getting-started/core-concepts): The vocabulary you need — scans, status, tags, severity, classification, evidence, campaigns, runs, policies, and alerts.
- [Your first scan in the dashboard](https://kaminari.ad/docs/getting-started/quickstart-ui): Sign in, create a campaign, run it, and read your first results — all from the Kaminari Ad dashboard.
- [Your first scan via the API](https://kaminari.ad/docs/getting-started/quickstart-api): Submit a creative URL over REST and get back the scan's status, classification, and a screenshot — in a few lines of cURL.
- [Choose your path](https://kaminari.ad/docs/getting-started/choose-your-path): Recommended starting points by role — ad network, publisher, affiliate network, or compliance team.

## Docs: Using the Platform

- [Authentication & access](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/authentication): Signing up, logging in, Google sign-in, password reset, email verification, and the org-approval flow.
- [The dashboard](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/dashboard): Your home screen — configurable widgets, onboarding checklist, and at-a-glance statistics.
- [Campaigns & groups](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/campaigns): Define what to scan and how, run campaigns manually or on a schedule, and manage them in bulk with groups.
- [Ad discovery across devices](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/ad-discovery): Why the same publisher page yields a different number of ads on a phone, a tablet and a desktop, what the scanner guarantees, and how to compare devices fairly.
- [Reading scan results](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/scans): Find scans with filters, and understand everything on the scan detail page — status, tags, classification, screenshots, and the redirect chain.
- [Alerts & alert history](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/alerts): Triage the alert inbox, change alert status, and route notifications to Slack, Telegram, or email.
- [Detection rules](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/detection-rules): Author stopword, regex, blacklist, combo, and AI rules that tag scans, and recheck existing scans against new rules.
- [Combo rules](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/combo-rules): Combine several tags into one aggregate tag, and choose whether the conditions must be met anywhere on the scan or within a single link.
- [Custom policies](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/policies): Build policy sets that decide what counts as a violation, and submit them through the moderation workflow.
- [Tags](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/tags): Browse the tag definitions available to your organization and inspect their meaning, category, and severity.
- [Custom taxonomies](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/custom-taxonomies): Define your own classification trees so scans are categorised in the vocabulary your business uses.
- [Billing, quotas & top-ups](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/billing): Understand your plan and balance, review usage and invoices, and top up by bank transfer or crypto.
- [Account & settings](https://kaminari.ad/docs/platform/account-settings): Organization settings, your profile, team & roles, API keys, webhooks, alert notifications, email preferences, and connected apps.

## Docs: UI Reference

- [UI: Dashboard](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/dashboard): Reference for the dashboard screen — every widget, the Customize modal, and the onboarding checklist.
- [UI: Campaigns, groups & create](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/campaigns): Reference for the campaigns hub, group detail, the create-campaign form, and the campaign detail page with all actions.
- [UI: Scan list](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/scan-list): Reference for the scans list — table/grid views, the full filter bar, row contents, and the public report.
- [UI: Scan detail](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/scan-detail): Reference for the scan detail page — every card, the screenshots, the redirect tree, and the available actions.
- [UI: Alerts](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/alerts): Reference for the alerts inbox — the clickable status cards, the filter bar, and inline triage actions.
- [UI: Detection rules](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/detection-rules): Reference for the custom rules list, the create/edit form (with Test rule), and the recheck dialog.
- [UI: Custom taxonomies](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/custom-taxonomies): Reference for the taxonomy list and the tree editor — nodes, paste-to-bootstrap, the default node, and saving.
- [UI: Policy sets](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/policies): Reference for the policy set list, the create/detail/edit views, and the publish, unpublish and delete flows.
- [UI: Tags](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/tags): Reference for the tags list — the Active/Archived tabs, search, the system/custom source filter, the detail drawer, and deleting custom tags.
- [UI: Billing & payments](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/billing): Reference for the billing page, change-plan dialog, usage details, invoice detail, the top-up dialog, and post-checkout pages.
- [UI: Account & settings screens](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/account): Reference for every account sub-screen — org settings, profile, team, API keys, webhooks, alert notifications, email preferences, connected apps.
- [UI: Authentication screens](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/authentication-screens): Reference for every auth screen — login, sign up, password reset, email verification, pending states, OAuth consent, and impersonation handoff.
- [UI: Admin panel](https://kaminari.ad/docs/ui-reference/admin-panel): Reference for the admin panel surfaces — organizations, users, roles, billing, invoicing, payments, public-site CMS, system tags, audit log, and more.

## Docs: Developers / API & Automations

- [Authentication](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/authentication): API keys, OAuth 2.0 for tenanted access, rate limits, and how to authenticate every request.
- [REST quickstart](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/rest-quickstart): The shape of the REST API and where to find the full interactive reference.
- [Scans API](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/scans-api): Submit single or bulk scans, read the classification and evidence, and receive tags via webhooks.
- [Proxy targeting](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/proxy-targeting): Discover which regions, cities, and ISPs a scan may target, and read the validation errors when a value is rejected.
- [Rule testing API](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/rule-testing-api): Preview unsaved detection rules against stored scans — one rule at a time, or up to 20 rules across 50 scans in a single call.
- [Webhooks](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/webhooks): Subscribe to scan and alert events with signed, retried payloads — and wire them into your own systems.
- [OAuth 2.0 & connected apps](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/oauth-connected-apps): Authorize third-party apps and AI agents to act on behalf of a user with scoped, revocable access tokens.
- [MCP server](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/mcp-server): Connect Claude and other AI agents to Kaminari Ad through the hosted Model Context Protocol server.
- [Recipe: bidder block-list automation](https://kaminari.ad/docs/developers/recipes-bidder-blocklist): Wire Kaminari Ad findings into your SSP/DSP bidder block-list via webhooks, with idempotency and a latency budget.

## Docs: Detections & Threat Intelligence

- [Detection catalog](https://kaminari.ad/docs/detections/detection-catalog): The classes of problems Kaminari Ad detects — malvertising, scams, policy violations, and page behaviour.
- [How detection works](https://kaminari.ad/docs/detections/how-ai-verdicts-work): How Kaminari Ad turns a rendered page into tags, a severity, a classification, and explainable evidence.
- [Threat intelligence](https://kaminari.ad/docs/detections/threat-intelligence): How domain and URL reputation intelligence enriches a scan's findings.

## Docs: Resources

- [Glossary](https://kaminari.ad/docs/resources/glossary): Definitions of the terms used across Kaminari Ad.
- [FAQ](https://kaminari.ad/docs/resources/faq): Answers to common questions about scanning, geos, devices, results, and integrations.
- [Release notes](https://kaminari.ad/docs/resources/release-notes): Notable changes to the Kaminari Ad platform.

## Blog

- [DarkSword in the ad stack: an iOS exploit chain delivered as malvertising](https://kaminari.ad/blog/darksword-ios-exploit-chain-in-ad-traffic): How the DarkSword iOS exploit chain was sold as malvertising: eleven weeks, 209 domains, zero-click delivery, full indicators and detection guidance.

## Optional

- [Full text corpus](https://kaminari.ad/llms-full.txt): Every docs article and blog post as markdown