# LegitScript

> LegitScript is a Portland, Oregon-based internet and payments compliance company that helps banks, payment providers, and the world's largest platforms tell legitimate merchants and products from dangerous or illegal ones. Founded in 2007 to fight rogue online pharmacies, it now certifies businesses in high-risk sectors and monitors merchants, ad platforms, marketplaces, and social media across more than 60 high-risk areas, blending AI, human analysts, and a large product-classification database.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** Portland, Oregon, United States
- **Founders:** John Horton (Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO Emeritus)
- **Team size:** Approximately 225-250 employees
- **Products:** LegitScript Certification, Merchant Risk Solutions, Platform Risk Solutions, Product Classification & Database Lookups, Brand Monitoring
- **Notable:** Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies (2019)., Reported involvement in shutting down more than 35,000 rogue online pharmacy websites by late 2012., Repeatedly recognized as a Top Workplace in Oregon.

## Products & services

- **LegitScript Certification** — Certification for businesses in high-risk sectors such as online pharmacies, telehealth, addiction treatment, and CBD, enabling them to advertise on major platforms and accept payments.
- **Merchant Risk Solutions** — Risk detection, onboarding, and continuous monitoring used by payment facilitators, ISOs, and acquiring banks to manage merchant risk across the merchant lifecycle.
- **Platform Risk Solutions** — Monitoring of online ads, product listings, and user-generated content for search engines, marketplaces, and social media platforms.
- **Product Classification & Database Lookups** — A large database that classifies products by type, safety profile, and legality, with lookups to verify healthcare products and websites.
- **Brand Monitoring** — Detection of intellectual property infringement and rogue sellers misusing brands online.
- **Kompliant (acquired)** — Compliance orchestration platform with automated underwriting and full-lifecycle compliance workflows for banks and financial services providers, acquired in October 2025.

## Achievements

- Named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies (2019).
- Reported involvement in shutting down more than 35,000 rogue online pharmacy websites by late 2012.
- Repeatedly recognized as a Top Workplace in Oregon.
- Became the default certification authority trusted by Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Netflix for healthcare advertising eligibility.
- Acquired financial compliance platform Kompliant in October 2025 to build an end-to-end merchant risk and underwriting suite.

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — LegitScript acquired Kompliant, a compliance orchestration and automated underwriting platform, to create a unified merchant risk and compliance automation suite across the payments ecosystem.
- **2023-01** — A federal judge denied LegitScript's motion for summary judgment in the antitrust suit brought by PharmacyChecker.com over price-comparison information.

## Links

- Website: https://legitscript.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/legitscript-com
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/legitscript
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/LegitScript

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