Michael Thompson
Co-Founder and CTO at KALO IQ
Michael Thompson is co-founder and CTO of KALO IQ, responsible for all platform engineering and the creator verification infrastructure.
What he does
Michael leads all engineering at KALO IQ. That covers the creator discovery platform, the verification pipeline, the campaign management tools, the ROI tracking system and the data infrastructure that keeps 10 million creator profiles accurate. He manages the engineering team across the platform and sets the technical roadmap.
The verification pipeline
The thing that differentiates KALO IQ from most influencer platforms is not features. It is data quality. Michael built the pipeline that checks every creator against a set of verification criteria before they appear in any search: US residency signals, active posting history, real engagement patterns, audience demographic accuracy. The pipeline is the product. Without it, KALO IQ is just another database.
Background
Michael co-founded KALO IQ with James Carter in December 2015. He has been building data and verification systems for over a decade. His work on the KALO IQ verification architecture has been a direct factor in how the platform has scaled to 10 million verified US creators while maintaining quality standards that self-serve databases cannot match.
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