Built from personal experience
Why I Built This
In 2017, a group of hackers compiled personal information about me from sources all over the web: data broker sites, people-search pages, public records, social media. They used it to social engineer their way into my accounts, one by one. By the time I realized what was happening, the damage was done: it cost me money, months of stress, and a sense of violation I still carry.
It was the worst experience of my life. And the hardest part was learning that the information they used to do it was freely available to anyone willing to search for it.
After that, I became obsessed with one question: why is it so easy for strangers to find everything about you, and so hard to make it stop?
The opt-out process is deliberately painful. Every broker has a different form, a different process, a different timeline. Some require you to submit a photo ID. Some make you wait 45 days. Some re-list you a month later. It's designed to exhaust you into giving up.
I built Delist.ai so nobody else has to go through what I did. Our software scans over 1,000 broker sites, submits removal requests through every available channel, and monitors for re-listings indefinitely. The brokers won't stop collecting your data, but we won't stop removing it.
Background
I've spent 15+ years building systems across healthcare, finance, and other industries where security isn't optional. That work gave me a deep understanding of how data flows, where it leaks, and what it takes to lock it down. When I turned that lens on the data broker industry, I knew I could build something better.