Aidos tackles a fast-rising safeguarding risk with a practical tool schools can actually use. With child protection concerns growing globally and hundreds of schools already showing interest, this has clear potential to protect large numbers of pupils at scale. 

Aidos is addressing a new and fast-growing safeguarding threat for schools. Everyday photos and videos of pupils can now be harvested by generative AI tools and used to create synthetic child sexual abuse material. The scale is alarming. The Internet Watch Foundation recorded a 26,362% rise in photorealistic AI-generated CSAM videos between 2024 and 2025, with 65% classed as the most extreme category. Schools need to show school life online, but blurring and pixelation damage image quality and still do not provide biometric-level protection. Aidos uses AI to perform a non-reversible identity shift on each face, keeping the emotional feel of the image while making children unrecognisable to facial recognition tools and deepfake systems. The platform is already live, priced at £295 per school per year, and s being used in over 75 schools across the UK and has now signed up its first school in Italy. In usability testing it cut image processing time by around 90% compared with manual redaction, giving schools a practical way to protect pupils without losing the value of digital storytelling. 

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