Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Harry, and I built MetaVeils because I accidentally leaked client data to ChatGPT. THE BACKSTORY A few months ago, I was rushing through a client invoice review. Pasted the whole thing into ChatGPT for a quick summary. Got my answer. Moved on. Five minutes later, I realized what I'd just sent: → Client's full legal name → Business address → Tax ID number → Payment details → Confidential project scope All sitting on OpenAI's servers. Permanently. I couldn't take it back. That moment made me realize: **we've normalized pasting documents into AI without checking what's actually in them.** THE PROBLEM AI is incredible for productivity. I use ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor daily. But every document you upload to a cloud-based AI tool gets processed on someone else's server. Most documents contain: • Personal names, emails, phone numbers • Financial information (credit cards, bank details, SSNs) • GPS coordinates embedded in photos • Author metadata in PDFs revealing who created the file • Confidential business information Your AI prompt gets the answer. But so does the server processing it. THE SOLUTION MetaVeils is a native macOS app that sits between your documents and your AI prompts. **The workflow:** 1. Drop your file into MetaVeils (drag & drop or click to browse) 2. AI scans for sensitive data automatically (names, emails, phones, cards, SSNs, addresses, GPS) 3. Review what was found — remove false positives if needed 4. Redact with one click (black bars, blur, or pixelation) 5. Export the sanitized version 6. Paste THAT into ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini Everything runs 100% offline on your Mac using Apple's Vision framework. No cloud. No uploads. No telemetry. **Free Edition** includes basic PII detection for text documents. **Pro Edition ($39.99 lifetime)** adds: • Image OCR scanning (detect PII in screenshots and scanned docs) • Full metadata stripping (EXIF, GPS, author, software traces) • Batch processing for multiple files • Deep metadata forensics WHY I'M LAUNCHING HERE Product Hunt has the most privacy-conscious, AI-savvy community on the internet. You're the exact people who will: 1. Understand why this matters 2. Actually use it 3. Give brutally honest feedback I want to know: • What sensitive data have YOU accidentally shared with AI? • What features would make this more useful for your workflow? • What's your biggest hesitation about using a tool like this? Thanks for checking out MetaVeils. Genuinely excited to hear what you think. — Harry

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That's a genuinely scary moment that probably resonates with a lot of people. The fact that you're solving for the friction between 'AI is useful' and 'I need to keep this data safe' is smart—most people just accept the risk without realizing what's in their documents. Native app approach makes sense too for something this sensitive.

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@osakasaul thanks for the honest review/comment

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Sanitize documents before pasting into AI chatbots

Sanitize documents before pasting into AI chatbots