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Discoverability for Individuals

Your digital fixer for individuals. Control what shows up when someone searches your name, from old records to a thin or wrong first page.

Drew Chapin
By · Founder, The Discoverability Company
Published · Updated

People google you. Before a job offer, a first date, a deal, a board seat. They type your name, glance at the first page, and decide something about you in a few seconds. If that page is wrong, out of date, or owned by one bad result from years ago, you lose ground in conversations you never even hear about. We help individuals take back that first page, whether you are a public figure, an executive, or someone who just wants an old chapter to stop being the headline.

Personal ORM Build a first page that reflects who you are now. Content & Record Removal Take down records, mugshots, and data-broker listings at the source. AI Search Presence Fix what ChatGPT and the assistants say about you. Wikipedia & Knowledge Panel For public figures who meet the bar, the most trusted result there is.

When the First Page Is Wrong

Search results have a long memory and no sense of what matters now. A news story from a job you left, a record that was dismissed, a quote pulled out of context, any of it can sit on page one for years while the work you are proud of today shows up nowhere. Google rewards whatever got linked to and written about, not whatever is most fair or most current. So the version of you that strangers meet online is often the version from your worst week, frozen in place.

We work both ends of that. Where something can come off, we file to remove it. Our guides on removing public records and arrest records walk through what is realistic. Where it cannot come off, we build and rank the results that should be there instead, through personal reputation management. You end up with a first page that matches the person you actually are.

When the First Page Is Empty

The opposite problem is just as costly. If you have almost no search presence, the people checking you out fill the gap themselves, usually with a half-finished profile or someone else who shares your name. We build the assets that should own your name: a personal website, clean profiles, and press placements that rank. For public figures who meet the bar, a Wikipedia page is the single most trusted result you can hold, and it feeds the AI assistants too.

That last part matters more every month. People now ask ChatGPT and Gemini about each other. Those answers get built from whatever is online, so a thin or negative presence becomes a thin or negative answer. We handle AI search optimization so the assistants describe you accurately. See our guide on showing up in AI search.

We do not break the bank like the big firms do. Our cost guide lays out the numbers, everything is a la carte, and you approve the price before we start. If you want to see the kind of work this turns into, read our case studies.

If your name pulls up the wrong thing, or nothing at all, book a consultation or book services and we will build a plan for your situation.

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Drew Chapin

Drew is the founder of The Discoverability Company. He has spent nearly two decades in go-to-market roles at startup projects and venture-backed companies, is a mentor at the Founder Institute, and a Hustle Fund Venture Fellow. Read more about Drew →

Frequently Asked Questions

Something embarrassing comes up when I google my name. Can you get rid of it?

A lot of the time, yes. Court records on aggregator sites, mugshot pages, data-broker listings, and anything that breaks a platform's rules can often come down at the source. When a result is a real news story we cannot remove, we push it down by building stronger pages that outrank it. We tell you which one yours is on the first call, for free.

I have basically no search presence at all. Is that a problem?

It can be. An empty first page means anyone, a recruiter, a date, a client, fills in the blanks with whatever they find, and that is usually a stale profile or someone else with your name. We build out the results you want to own, your own site, profiles, and press, so the page tells your story instead of a stranger's.

Will people know I hired someone to clean this up?

No. The work is discreet, and we never name who we work with. The point is for your search results to look like they got there on their own, because for the most part, that is how we build them.

What does it cost?

A la carte, no retainers. You pay for the specific thing you need, a removal, a profile build, a suppression project, and you approve the price first. No monthly contract. Our cost guide has the ranges.

Ready to take control of your online presence?

Schedule a free consultation to discuss your situation and learn how we can help.