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

MetaVeils

Sanitize documents before pasting into AI chatbots

Sanitize documents before pasting into AI chatbots