Spokeo
Spokeo is a people search platform that aggregates public records from over a dozen categories—including phone directories, property records, social networks, and court records—into comprehensive background reports on more than 250 million people. Users can search by name, email, phone number, username, or address to access contact details, address history, property data, social media profiles, and criminal records. The platform serves both consumers and business clients, with advanced best-match algorithms and multi-tiered quality assurance to improve result accuracy.
- Data & Analytics
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Public information about individuals is scattered across phone directories, property records, court documents, social networks, and consumer databases, making it difficult to quickly verify someone's identity, contact details, or background. Traditional lookup methods require checking multiple disjointed sources, leaving people vulnerable to scams, catfishing, and unsafe encounters, while businesses and agencies lack efficient tools for locating individuals and assessing risk.
Solution
Spokeo aggregates data from over a dozen public and open-source categories—including consumer indexes, phone directories, email databases, property records, social networks, court records, business directories, and vital statistics—into comprehensive people reports. Advanced algorithms predict best-match results across names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, and usernames, then present contact information, address history, property assets, personal details, social media profiles, and criminal record histories in a single dashboard. The platform applies multi-tiered quality assurance and anomaly detection to flag high-confidence data, while users can access reports through a web interface protected by 256-bit encryption. Spokeo indicates which information meets its highest-quality data standards and adheres to ISO/IEC 27001, SOC II, and PCI DSS security standards.
Target Audience
Primary users are individual consumers seeking to reconnect with old friends, date safely, or avoid scams, as well as law enforcement agencies, accounts receivable departments, small and medium businesses, e-commerce platforms, real estate professionals, and nonprofits needing background verification and people intelligence.
Features
- Multi-source data corroboration across consumer indexes, phone directories, email databases, property records, social networks, court records, business directories, and vital statistics
- Search by name, email, username, phone number, or address with predictive best-match algorithms to disambiguate common names
- Reverse email and phone lookup revealing linked social profiles (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Amazon, YouTube), photos, videos, recent posts, carrier details, and spam risk
- Comprehensive reports including current and past addresses, property values, neighbors, marital status, work history, and birth/death information
- Criminal record search covering DUIs, sex offenses, arrest warrants, and fugitive records with expungement and sealing order handling
- Quality assurance indicators identifying which data points meet the highest-quality standards
- Native opt-out tool for public listing removal and support for users to suppress their own personal data from public view, with expungement order handling for court records