Brands & insights

How Brand Insights Teams Keep Trackers Off Fraud Noise

Wave-to-wave movement did not match media or sales. Post-field scrubs kept growing. Open-ends in the tracker looked fluent and interchangeable - a signature of generated text landing in a respondent-quality-only stack the agency had bought.

Other platforms score the respondent. Maxna scores the respondent and the response.

Device IDs, bots, VPNs, and duplicates are necessary. They are not enough. A real device can still paste ChatGPT into every open-end. Maxna's proprietary AI grades what people type - so sample integrity is both who they are and what they say.

Respondent quality

Where most tools stop

  • Device fingerprinting and environment risk
  • Bots, scripts, and click farms
  • VPN / proxy and geo mismatch
  • Duplicates and professional respondents

Response quality

Maxna's proprietary AI layer

  • AI-written and synthetic open-ends
  • Low-effort and copy-paste answers
  • Cross-question consistency
  • Open-end scoring before the complete is paid

Approach

How Maxna is deployed

Mandate on the SOW

Every fieldwork partner had to send traffic through Maxna. Integrity was not renegotiated each wave.

Cadence on the tracker, Aether on high-scrutiny pulses

Continuous brand work needed throughput plus open-end AI. Occasional reputation or crisis pulses used Aether.

Report blocked-at-gate

Leadership saw prevention, not only “cleaned n.” Response-side blocks were called out so AI answers were a first-class metric.

What changes

Operational outcomes

Less fake movement

When farms and synthetic verbatims cannot enter, tracker noise from those sources drops. Remaining movement is more worth investigating.

Budget buys humans

Completes that would have been paid and deleted are not collected.

Stakeholder trust

The insights team can explain the integrity stack without hiding behind a vendor score nobody understands.

Illustrative of how brand teams deploy Maxna. Quantified case studies are shared in demo when they are real - not invented for this page.

Bring a live wave, not a slide.

We’ll show respondent and response reasons on your sources.

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