How do you think about the security and safety risks of holding so much sensitive data about so many people?

Noah Shinn
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Founder & CEO at Instinct

Niche: AI
Revenue: Pre-Revenue/month
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Started: 2025

There are two categories. The first is the traditional data storage problem. Other businesses have dealt with this and it is extremely hard but tractable work. The second is the genuinely new surface area that an autonomous agent creates. For example, any content that comes into Instinct, any text or media, goes through what we call firewalls that intercept and reject malicious content before it ever reaches the agent. Beyond that, every action that Instinct considers taking and every thinking trace before execution is monitored by a system that is completely decoupled from Instinct itself. That watchdog system can pause, intercept, and approve or disapprove the next action before it happens. These are just two pieces. There is so much more under the hood. And our teams are constantly running adversarial testing to find harder and harder edge cases, and those models are getting more robust over time.

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