How Cayve decides
A message is judged in layers, from the cheapest signals to the most careful, and every layer leaves a reason you can read. The result is a score from 0 to 100 and one of three answers.
What happened on the page
How long the form was open, whether the hidden field that only bots fill in was touched, whether the page script ran, and a summary of typing and pointer movement. Never the keystrokes themselves.
Who is sending it
Throwaway email services, addresses whose domain can't receive mail, known exit nodes and cloud ranges, and senders that have been reported as spam on other Cayve sites. All kept as keyed hashes, never as a list of people.
What it says
Link counts, wording common in scams and pitches, messages that match a campaign seen across many sites, and the mismatch between a human name and a bot's grammar.
Your rules
Each site sets where "hold" and "act" begin, and what to do with each kind of message. A sales pitch might be a lead for one business and noise for another.
Shadow mode first
A new site spends its first week in shadow mode. Cayve records what it would have done and lets every message through. You read its decisions in the dashboard, correct any it got wrong, and switch it on when you trust it.
Never deleted
Held and blocked messages are kept for 30 days. Held messages wait for you in the plugin; releasing one sends the original notification.
Fails open
If Cayve can't be reached within a second and a half, the form goes through and the message is checked afterwards. Your site never breaks because of us.
Feedback that stays yours
"Not spam" on your site teaches your site immediately. It changes global behavior only after review, when many sites agree.
Try Cayve on one site this week
Every account starts with a free monthly allowance, and every new site runs in shadow mode for seven days: Cayve records what it would do and lets everything through, so you can check its judgment before it acts.