ROOST

@roost.tools

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We’re ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a non-profit building and maintaining open source, accessible, high-quality, transparent safety tools for digital organizations of all kinds. roost.tools

📸L to R: Juliet Shen, Cassidy James Blaede, Juan Mrad, Anne Bertucio, Camille François
Panel on trust and safety hosted by ROOST at TrustCon 2026.
Thank you to Yoshua Bengio, Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Tristan Harris, Maria Ressa, Megan J Smith, Ayah Bdeir, Marija Manojlovic, Andrew Sliwinski, Amanda Craig Deckard, Mark Schaan, Martin Tisné, Ryan Mcmaster, Hon.William Kabogo Gitau, E.G.H., and Benjamin Prud'homme for the great remarks, insights and partnership.
A screenshot of Coop's UI showing the page for creating hash banks. The backend is HMA, hasher-matcher-actioner, and the UI allows you to configure a third-party signal exchange like NCMEC. You still need your own credentials, but Coop makes it easy to select what environment and ESPs you want to get hashes from
a screenshot of the Coop UI's settings page: organization tab: Organization name, Organization email, website URL, on-call alert email
a screenshot of Coop's interface showing a page configuring user strikes. There are 4 tabs: policy scores where you weight policies, strike enabled actions to select what actions can be triggered by strikes, thresholds and settings to set the threshold for a strike and how long the TTL for counting strikes is, and analytics
A yellow background with black text saying Coop: Review and moderation, your way.
Photo from the G7. From left to right: Dr. Camille Francois, President of ROOST, The Honorable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation of the Government of Canada, Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs of France, and Benjamin Prud'homme, VP of Policy, Safety and Global Affairs at Mila
Photo from the G7. From left to right: Dr. Camille Francois, President of ROOST, The Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation of the Government of Canada, Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs of France, and Benjamin Prud'homme, Vice President, Policy, Safety and Global Affairs at Mila.
Juliet wearing a sick jacket with tool patches
a blue "@" symbol
Juliet and Cassidy from ROOST smiling at the camera in a large hall wearing blue conference badges
a whiteboard at the ATmosphere conference: Unconference room 2311. 10:30, blank. 11:30, build and share personal apps by @jon2600.bsky.social. 1:30, blank. 2:30, permissioned data by @dholms.at. 3:30, trust and safety by @julietshen bsky.social. 4:30, blank
Group photo of participants at the Open Safeguard Hackathon hosted by ROOST, Hugging Face, and OpenAI on Dec. 8, 2025, in San Francisco. The hackathon brought together practitioners from industry, academia, nonprofits, and policy who all rolled up their sleeves to test open safety models, pressure-test policies, and prototype real-world solutions, from multilingual safeguards to appeals copilots and red-teaming against jailbreaks.
A large group of people pose for a photo on a stage in front of a screen that says "open safeguard hackathon featuring openai, roost, and hugging face". The people are wearing blue lanyards and wave their hands enthusiastically
three people smile at the camera and hold up egg-shaped stress balls with the ROOST logo on it
A graphic flyer for a workshop at the Trust & Safety Research Conference called "Towards Technical Standards: Safety By Design & Open Source" featuring Savannah Badalich (senior director of product policy at Discord), Ethan Breder (engineer at discord), and Vinay Rao (CTO at ROOST). The conference takes place September 25-26 at Stanford University Alumni Center. Advancing research in trust and safety while fostering the exchange of ideas across various disciplines including computer science, communication, policy, law, and political science.
Vinay Rao, ROOST CTO, stands on a stage at TrustCon, giving a presentation.
Graphic of Anne and Vinay with their titles (COO and CTO, respectively) and the ROOST logo.
Speaker graphic - Juliet Shen (TrustCon 2025)
ROOST's Juliet Shen, holding a microphone, presents during the event in front of a projector screen.
Eli Sugarman talks to attendees at the event about the organization and what announcements from ROOST are to come.
Left to right: Open AI’s Johanna Shelton, Discord’s David Chia, Roblox’s Naren Koneru and ROOST’s Eli Sugarman discuss the organization and why open source AI tools are critical for online safety - with the panel name and lineup slide in the background.
a photo taken at the AT protocol dev conference, ATmosphere 2025 A projector screen shows a trippy spiral graphic with 6 logos spinning, including ROOST.tools
a 2d graphic of a large egg shell broken in half, with the ROOST logo emerging from the shell. Logo is a minimal graphic of a bird on a box
a 2D cartoon of an egg with many cracks in the shell, with some pieces falling off onto the ground. black text says 1 day
a 2D image of a white egg with a crack across the middle, with black text on the bottom saying "2 days"
a 2D image of a white egg with a small crack appearing, with black text on the bottom saying "3 days"
a 2D image of a white egg with black text on the bottom saying "4 days"