More real reviews. Better responses.Zero compliance risk.
Reviews quietly became a legal minefield. The FTC Consumer Review Rule carries penalties up to $53,088 per violation — and most review tools still nudge you toward the practices it prohibits.
This system earns five-star reviews the durable way: ask everyone the same way, respond on-brand, and run every campaign through a built-in compliance linter.
Reviews became a legal minefield in 2024.
The FTC Consumer Review Rule specifically targets AI-generated fake reviews, review gating, and incentives conditioned on a positive rating — the exact moves a lot of review software still nudges businesses toward.
The way through isn’t a clever loophole. It’s the durable version: earn real reviews, respond to all of them, and keep every campaign clean.
The FTC Consumer Review Rule now carries penalties up to $53,088 per violation — and it targets AI fake reviews, gating, and incentivized 5-stars specifically.
Plenty of review software quietly steers you toward gating and sentiment-conditioned incentives — the exact practices that are now prohibited.
Ask everyone the same way, respond to every review, resolve detractors offline, showcase honestly. Real reviews compound; the shortcut is now a fine.
FTC Consumer Review Rule finalized Aug 2024; first enforcement Dec 2025; penalties up to $53,088/violation. Re-verify the current figure and platform policies before launching a campaign.
Is your review ask actually compliant?
Pick how you collect reviews and see the verdict the kit’s linter returns — the same Compliant / Fix / Prohibited logic as the included reviewcheck.py.
Who writes the reviews?
Who do you ask?
Do you offer an incentive?
If you give an incentive, is it disclosed?
Verdict
Compliant
Nothing here trips the FTC Consumer Review Rule. Still confirm each platform's policy (some prohibit incentives or solicitation entirely).
Run your whole review program through the kit.
Compliant request + response templates, a self-checking workbook with a live compliance checklist, and a linter that catches fabrication, gating, and sentiment-conditioned incentives before they ship.
Get the Reputation & Reviews Engine — $99Compliance guidance, not legal advice. The rule and platform policies change — confirm with counsel.
Ask, Respond, Resolve, Showcase, Track.
The repeatable loop behind the playbook, templates, and workbook — compliant at every step.
Request a review from every customer the same way, with a neutral prompt — no gating, no screening for sentiment. The compliant ask, wired to fire automatically.
Reply to every review, positive or negative, on-brand and without inventing a policy. Templates for each scenario, fast enough to actually keep up.
Take detractors offline and fix the underlying issue — the move that turns a one-star into a second chance, instead of a suppression problem.
Surface real reviews honestly across your site and profiles — no cherry-picking that misrepresents the overall picture.
Watch four numbers: average rating, review velocity, response rate, and time-to-respond — the dashboard that tells you whether the system is working.
A playbook, templates, a self-checking workbook, and a linter.
The FTC rule in plain English, the four practices that get businesses fined, and the five moves end to end.
GHL-ready review-request and response templates for every scenario — positive, negative, and resolution — written to ask everyone the same way.
A review funnel tracker, a Response QA scorecard (Send / Revise / Hold), a live compliance checklist, and a four-number dashboard.
Paste any campaign copy for a Compliant / Fix / Prohibited verdict — flags fabrication, gating, suppression, and incentivized ratings. Zero dependencies; runs keyless.
The editable ruleset behind the linter — prohibited phrases, incentive and disclosure terms. Tune it to your policies.
Earn reviews — honest about the line.
- Compliance guidance, not legal advice
The kit helps you stay clean, but the rule and enforcement evolve. Re-verify the penalty figure and consult counsel for anything material.
- Earn, don't game
No fabricated reviews, no gating, no suppression, no incentivized 5-stars. The durable profile is the one that compounds.
- Platform policies vary
Google prohibits gating and incentives; some platforms ban solicitation entirely. Confirm each platform's current policy before you ask.
- A linter, not a lawyer
The linter catches the common violations in copy you paste — it can't certify a program. Treat verdicts as guidance to fix, not a sign-off.
Local businesses and operators who live and die by their rating.
Service businesses, multi-location brands, and agencies running reviews for clients — who want more real five-stars and zero exposure to a rule that now carries five-figure penalties.
Brand Voice Engine
$59The templates keep responses on-brand; the Brand Voice Engine makes that a rule a machine can check. A voice spec, an on-brand writer, and a 100-point QA checker so every review reply sounds unmistakably like you, not canned.
Customer Support & Success Skills Pack
$89Reviews are downstream of support. Six Claude skills — ticket triage, an on-brand reply drafter that never invents a policy, QA scoring, churn-risk flagging — so the experience that earns the five-star is consistent in the first place.
GHL AI Activation Kit
$149Wire the compliant ask into your CRM. The GHL AI Activation Kit fires the review request automatically after a job or visit and routes responses — so the five moves run on autopilot inside GoHighLevel.
The questions operators actually ask before they touch reviews.
A compliant review-collection and response system built around the FTC Consumer Review Rule. It includes a strategy playbook (the five moves: Ask, Respond, Resolve, Showcase, Track), GHL-ready request and response templates, a self-checking workbook (review funnel, response QA, and a live compliance checklist), and a runnable linter you paste any campaign copy into for a Compliant / Fix / Prohibited verdict.
It's the FTC rule (finalized August 2024, first enforcement December 2025) that prohibits fake or AI-generated reviews, review gating (soliciting only customers you expect to be happy), and incentives conditioned on a positive or specific-star rating — with civil penalties up to $53,088 per violation. A lot of review tools still nudge businesses toward exactly those practices. This kit refuses to. (Re-verify the current figure and platform policies before you launch a campaign.)
Paste a review request, incentive offer, or response and it flags the four things that get businesses fined: fabricated or self-authored reviews, suppression of honest negatives, review gating (asking only happy/satisfied customers), and incentives tied to a positive rating — returning Compliant, Fix, or Prohibited. It's guidance, not legal advice; the rules and platform policies change.
No — asking is fine, gating is the problem. Gating means routing the request only to customers you expect to be happy (or screening out the unhappy ones first). Asking every customer the same way, with a neutral request, is both compliant and, over time, produces a more credible profile. The kit's templates are built to ask everyone identically.
Yes. The request and response templates are GHL-ready — drop them into workflows and snippets — so the ask fires automatically after a job or visit and responses stay fast and on-brand. The system is platform-agnostic, but the GHL path is built in.
It pairs with the Brand Voice Engine (so responses sound like you instead of canned), the Customer Support & Success Skills Pack (so the team handling reviews is consistent), and the GHL AI Activation Kit (to wire the ask into your CRM).
A Reputation Engine Playbook, GHL-ready Templates, the Reputation Workbook (Excel), reviewcheck.py, and an editable ruleset config.
Five stars, the honest way.
Earn more real reviews, respond to every one on-brand, and run each campaign through a built-in compliance check — the durable version, because the shortcut is now a fine. One-time $99, yours to keep.
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