We didn't build Privly to be another SaaS. We built it because our friends were hurting.
A friend messaged me at 2am.
She'd just found her PPV drop reposted on three leak sites and a Telegram channel with 34,000 subscribers. One month of work. Gone in six hours.
She'd already tried the "big" takedown services. $2,400 a month. Auto-generated DMCAs firing into the void. Zero replies. She asked if I knew anyone who could actually help.
I didn't. But I had the background to figure it out. I'd spent years in cyber security doing threat intelligence and incident response. The kind of work where your job is to hunt people who don't want to be found, and move faster than they can cover their tracks. Removing leaked content is the same problem, pointed a different direction.
So I pulled in a lawyer friend, then an engineer who'd worked on image fingerprinting, and we started Privly. Not as a business plan, but as a favour. Within a week we'd pulled 280 links for her. Within a month she was earning again. Within six months, forty other creators had asked us to do the same.
That's the whole origin story. No VC pitch. No product-market-fit deck. Just one person who got hurt, and a handful of us who could help.
“Can you actually help me? I'm losing it.”
creator #1 · 2:14am
Six things we don't
compromise on.
Privacy isn't a feature. It's the floor.
We don't share your data with anyone, ever. Your dashboard, your content, your subscriber lists: encrypted, siloed, yours. If we ever got subpoenaed, we'd tell you first (when we're legally allowed to).
We answer like humans.
A real protection agent is assigned to you within 24 hours. No ticketing system. No 'thank you for your inquiry.' When you message us at midnight because something just got leaked, you'll get a human who knows your case within the hour.
We only take creators we can actually help.
If you're in a jurisdiction we can't enforce in, or a content category we can't defend, we'll tell you on the first call. We'd rather lose a sale than take your money and underdeliver. We turn down ~15% of signups for this reason.
Speed matters more than everything.
The first 72 hours after a leak is where 80% of the damage happens. We scan continuously, not daily, not hourly. Most leaks are caught within 2 hours of appearing. Average removal time from detection to gone: 76 hours.
We write it in plain English.
Our DMCA notices read like they were written by a person, because they were. We don't pad them with boilerplate. Platforms respond to clear, specific, correctly-cited notices faster, so that's what we send.
No lock-in. No dark patterns.
One click cancels. We'll email you an export of everything you ever gave us. If we lose you, it should be because we didn't earn you, not because we made leaving hard. (We don't think you'll leave.)
We caught him in 11 days. Privly pulled the watermark, I ran a DMCA, he got banned from three platforms, and then his lawyer wrote to me asking to settle.
This is where we're at.
Small by design.
Picked by hand.
We're a tight team of four. Deliberately. More people means more handoffs, more bureaucracy, more chances for your case to fall through a crack.
Every person on the team has been hand-picked, vetted, and trained for this specific work. Background-checked, NDA'd, and answerable by name to the creators they protect. We'll grow when we have to, and we'll hire slowly.
four humans,
one mission.
Founder
Cyber security background. Writes the playbooks. Answers creator emails at 11pm.
Enforcement lead
Former IP attorney. Takes the cases nobody else will touch.
Engineering
Built the fingerprinting pipeline and the scanners that watch 500+ sites, 24/7.
Creator success
Your first point of contact. Onboards every account personally for the first 30 days.
We don't publish names or photos because the people fighting leaks shouldn't have to worry about becoming targets themselves. Same reason you trust us with yours.
Six promises. In our own words.
A real protection agent, not a queue.
Named. Email address. Direct line. Not a shared inbox.
Forensic watermarking on everything you upload.
Invisible, per-subscriber. If it leaks, we know who.
Takedowns submitted in minutes, not days.
Average time from detection to DMCA sent: 14 minutes.
Monthly check-ins. We come to you.
Not a support form you have to go find.
We'll tell you when we can't help.
Before you pay. Not after.
Encrypted, siloed, yours.
Your content, your subscriber lists, your takedown history. Locked down and never shared with anyone, ever.
If something got leaked, we're here.
No script. No pressure.
Sign up, tell us what's going on, and a real agent is assigned within 24 hours. We'll look at your situation, tell you what we can do, and tell you what we can't. If Privly isn't the right fit, we'll point you somewhere that is. No hard sell.