Footprint cleanup
Your past, cleaned up before someone else finds it.
Old forum posts, dormant accounts, a comment from a different decade: your footprint accumulates material that reads very differently today. We find it all, remove what should go, and hand you a clean baseline with a report.
average legacy items found per person
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Vetting has become forensic.
Investors run social checks before term sheets, employers screen candidates' histories, and journalists read a decade of posts before writing a word. Material written in one context is re-read in another, and the internet forgets nothing on its own. Most people simply no longer remember most of what is out there.
The gap between what you remember posting and what actually exists is the problem. Automated tools find accounts on known networks; they do not find the 2009 forum, the forgotten alias, the comment under an old username, or the profile on a platform that shut down and was scraped. Finding everything is the actual work.
How it works
From first email to measurable movement.
What a footprint cleanup engagement includes
- Deep discovery across networks, aliases and archives
- Joint review of every finding before anything is filed
- Account closures and content deletions
- Archive and cached-copy de-index requests
- Written baseline report of what remains
- Optional standing monitoring for new exposure
Typical delivery in about one week, plus verification over the following month.
Success in reputation recovery
Cleanup, measured.
Items by stage in a typical anonymised engagement. Not every finding warrants removal; the review stage exists so you decide what stays.
Why this precedes funding rounds, runs for office and rebrands
The worst time to learn what is in your footprint is during the process that matters. Diligence teams and opposition researchers find this material systematically, and the discovery itself becomes the story. A clean, documented baseline before the process starts removes the entire category of surprise.
It is also honest work rather than image laundering. We are not hiding a record from scrutiny; we are closing dormant accounts and deleting old posts that no longer represent you. What remains is what you would say today, which is the position you want to defend from.
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
What counts as my digital footprint?
Every account you have created, every post and comment, every photo with you in it, every mention of your name, plus everything held about you by brokers and archives. The engagement maps all of it before anything is removed.
Can you delete things I posted years ago?
Usually, yes: you control your own accounts, and platforms provide deletion routes. The harder cases are content you no longer control, like posts quoting you or archives of deleted pages, which run through de-index and takedown routes instead.
Will you tell me what you find?
Every finding goes through joint review before anything is filed. You decide what is removed, what stays and what is simply documented. Nothing is deleted without your decision on the record.
Is this the same as the free Risk Check?
No. The Risk Check is a first look at your public exposure, free and fast. The footprint cleanup is the deep version: exhaustive discovery including aliases, archives and breach data, plus the removals themselves.
See where you stand.
Start with a free Risk Check, or email us for a confidential conversation under NDA. We never call clients, in any case.