Clean it before you paste it into AI
In Cisco's 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark, 46% of the privacy and security professionals surveyed said employee names or information go into generative AI tools. 31% said customer names or information do.
Usually nobody meant to share anything. Someone wanted help with an email, a complaint or a case note, and the names came with it. eleyed takes them out first, in one paste.
Up to 3,000 characters free. Nothing stored. Source: Cisco, April 2025.
Three steps, about ten seconds
Paste your text
The email, complaint, notes or chat log you were about to give the AI. Up to 3,000 characters free, no account.
eleyed swaps out the personal data
Names, emails, phone numbers, ID numbers, card and bank details, IP addresses and more become tags such as <PERSON>.
Copy the clean version
Read it, copy it, and paste that into your AI tool instead. The AI still gets the task, without the people in it.
A real result
What the AI sees instead
This is the free checker's actual output for a typical request. The people in it are made up.
What you were going to paste
Please draft a short, kind reply to Sarah Mitchell (sarah.mitchell@example.com, 0161 496 0123). She manages Thomas Hargreaves, who has been off sick since 3 March and asked us to send his payslips to t.hargreaves@example.com. His NI number is AB 12 34 56 C. Keep it under 150 words.
What you paste instead
Please draft a short, kind reply to <PERSON> (<EMAIL_ADDRESS>, <PHONE_NUMBER>). She manages <PERSON>, who has been off sick since 3 March and asked us to send his payslips to <EMAIL_ADDRESS>. His NI number is <UK_NINO>. Keep it under 150 words.
Six items replaced: two names, two email addresses, a phone number and a National Insurance number. Notice what is left: “off sick since 3 March”. That is health information about someone, and no tool can know whether it matters in your context. That is why you read the result before you use it.
Why not just paste it and trust the settings?
Once text is in a prompt, it has left your hands. What happens next depends on the provider, the plan your organisation is on, and settings you may never have looked at: retention, review, training, sharing. Those can be fine. You just can't check them from the chat box.
The people in your text didn't agree to any of it. Under GDPR and similar laws, putting a customer's or colleague's details into an outside tool is a disclosure your organisation has to be able to justify.
Most tasks don't need the names. “Reply kindly to this complaint” works just as well about <PERSON>. Taking them out is the cheapest fix there is.
Doing this every day?
The free checker is for a paste at a time. An account handles the rest, with the same detection and nothing stored.
Whole documents
Long text, and PDFs including scans and photographed pages, redacted permanently.
Your own terms
Client names, project code names and reference formats that no general detector would know.
API
Clean text in your own pipeline before it reaches a model or a log.
MCP server
Let an AI agent redact a document itself before it works with it.
Text costs 1 credit per job plus 1 per 1,000 characters. Sign-up includes 10 free credits, no card. Packs start at $5.00 for 300 credits, and purchased credits never expire.
Questions
Does eleyed keep what I paste?
No. The text is processed in memory and discarded when the check finishes. It is not written to disk, not logged and not used to train anything. The free checker has no account, so there is nothing to attach it to either.
Is my text sent to an AI provider to find the personal data?
No. Detection runs on our own servers. Your text is never passed to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or any other outside model. That would defeat the point.
Can I put the names back into the AI’s answer?
Not automatically. Every name becomes <PERSON>, every email <EMAIL_ADDRESS>, and so on, and eleyed keeps no copy of the original to map them back. For a short prompt it is usually quick to fill them in by hand. Keep your original until you have.
Will it catch everything?
No automated tool does. It finds names, contact details, ID numbers, card, bank and crypto details, IP addresses and more, but context can still identify someone: a job title, a rare condition, a date. Read the result before you paste it anywhere.
What does the free version leave out?
Text over 3,000 characters (you still see the counts up to 10,000), PDFs and scans, your own custom terms such as client or project names, and the API and MCP server. Those need an account. Sign-up gives you 10 free credits, no card.
Try it on the next thing you paste
No account, no card, and nothing you paste is kept.
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