Why we built this
Why Is This A Scam? exists, told by its founder, Jayme Johnston.
Product updates
The origin story, in three parts
Why I built Is This A Scam?
My father gets the texts and the voicemails. My mother gets the emails. I could not be there every time it happened, and giving generic advice doesn't work.
Was it even possible?
Ten months answering one question: could AI give specific, evidence-backed answers, and could anyone trust them?
The last mile
The service can be exactly right and still fail. Getting a suspicious message into an email is the hard part. Teaching my parents the last mile, and what a broken button taught me about it.