I built this as a college student who saw the problem firsthand.
I was in college watching the debate about AI unfold in real time — people arguing about whether it was good or dangerous, whether it helped or hurt. But underneath all of that, I noticed something specific: nobody was talking about what actually happens to your data when you type it into these tools.
I realized it when I did it myself. I put my own information into an AI tool — just testing, just curious — and it hit me: this company now has my data. I didn't think about that before I typed. Most people don't.
Now imagine that's not your information. It's your client's. Your patient's. Your customer's SSN, their salary, their case details, their email. They trusted you with it. And you just sent it to a third-party AI server without a second thought — because the AI was helpful and the workflow was fast and nobody told you not to.
That's the gap I wanted to close. Not with a lecture about AI safety. With something that actually works, invisibly, so the people who need AI to do their jobs can keep using it — without exposing the people who trusted them.
I'm part of the generation that grew up watching data get mishandled at scale. We watched social media companies quietly monetize personal information. We watched breaches happen and companies apologize with free credit monitoring.
AI is moving faster than any of that. The tools are incredible. The adoption is instant. The privacy conversation is lagging far behind. I built GC Protect because I didn't want to wait for someone else to solve it.
GC Protect removes identifying information from AI prompts. That's what it does. It's not a complete HIPAA compliance program. It doesn't replace a legal data handling policy. It's one meaningful layer of protection that makes it significantly harder for your clients' real information to end up on a server they never agreed to.
I'd rather be honest about that now than have you rely on something I can't fully deliver. The tool works. What it promises, it does. I'm not going to dress it up beyond that.