Grooming operates over time. Here's how behavioral detection tracks it.

Every system designed to detect child grooming has the same problem: it's looking at the wrong unit of analysis. Grooming doesn't happen in a message. It happens across weeks of messages — a slow accumulation of trust, a gradual shift in conversational register, an escalation in contact frequency that would look unremarkable if you sampled any individual session but reads clearly as a pattern when you step back and look at the whole trajectory. When you build a detection system around message-le