An intelligence function that started with erasure.
ObscureIQ is a protective intelligence company. We protect high-risk people and organizations from digital threats that can become real-world harm: collection, analysis and reduction run against the exposure to harm pipeline on behalf of a named human being.
Two disciplines, held together on purpose.
Most privacy firms come out of cybersecurity. Most intelligence work happens behind closed doors. ObscureIQ began with the conviction that the two belong in the same room.
Investigators understand what makes a person findable. Privacy practitioners understand how to make them less so. Kept together, each discipline corrects the other, and the work is more honest for it.
The firm grew out of work the founders were already doing: Colby on threat actor identification and open source investigation, Jeff on the structure of the data broker economy. The first clients were referrals from people who knew that work and needed both halves of it. That has remained the pattern: the firm does not market, it is found.
What changed is not the capability but the name for it. Every service we have sold, from footprint wipes to narrative analysis, is one capability expressed at a different point in the same pipeline. The brand now names the capability rather than the products built on it.
The people doing the work.
Portrait · C. Scullion
Colby Scullion
Colby leads the intelligence side of the firm. His work focuses on identifying threat actors, mapping digital footprints, and producing investigative reports clients and counsel can act on.
He runs BlackBear Recon, the firm's digital reconnaissance practice. His open source work has been published in industry case studies, including verification work in the aftermath of the New Year's Day Cybertruck incident. Background in intelligent automation and OSINT tradecraft. Based in the Pittsburgh region.
Portrait · J. Jockisch
Jeff Jockisch
Jeff leads the privacy and research side of the firm. He is one of the recognized experts on the commercial surveillance economy and the data broker industry that powers it.
He built CODEX, the firm's index of the entities collecting consumer data. He has provided expert testimony to legislative bodies, is a LinkedIn Top Voice in privacy, and writes the Tactical Privacy Wire on data exposure and decay. Background in data science, knowledge graphs, and the marketing and ad technology industries he later turned his attention against.
Named analysts
Every client is assigned a named analyst, and the analyst who scopes the work is the analyst who executes it. Senior practitioners stay close to every case.
Internal infrastructure, indexes, pipelines, and monitoring stacks handle what does not require human judgment, so analysts spend their time on what does. The model scales without becoming a platform.
Analyst names are shared with clients at intake, not published. The work the firm does, identifying adversaries and tracking targeting campaigns, makes that the right approach.
The library is the proof, not the marketing.
The Command Briefs, vendor atlases, misidentification corpus, and narrative research function the way a think tank's publications do: public evidence of the analytic judgment clients buy privately.
Reduce
Vendor atlases and the CODEX index: where the data actually sits, and who holds it.
Watch
Breach and exposure reporting: what surfaced, when, and what it enabled.
Groundtruth
Misidentification corpus and narrative research: how belief forms and hardens.
You do not just monitor. You interpret.
How we work. Who we take.
By referral, not by marketing
Almost every client comes to us through an introduction from someone who has worked with us before: counsel, security professionals, family offices, prior clients.
Every client starts with a confidential call
Before any scope or commitment, a private call to understand the situation, the exposure, and whether we are the right firm for the matter. Confidential by default, and privileged where counsel directs the work. You control what happens next.
Some matters are declined
Not every matter is a fit. We turn down work where the goals are unrealistic, where it would conflict with our values, or where another firm is better suited. That decision is made before scope or pricing.
Working through counsel is available
Work performed under counsel direction may be covered by attorney client privilege, depending on how the engagement is structured. We can introduce qualified outside counsel where none is in place. The structure suits matters warranting protections beyond an NDA.
Confidentiality is the default, not the upgrade
No resale of work product, and no case study without explicit consent. Encrypted channels. Internal systems reviewed and hardened on an ongoing basis.
Infrastructure underneath, practitioners in front
CODEX, internal pipelines, and monitoring stacks carry the parts of the work that do not require judgment. Analysts carry the parts that do. Faster turnarounds, more consistent output, more time on the work that matters.
Claims are stated the way findings are
Attributed, with confidence stated and scope noted. If something is unconfirmed, we say unconfirmed. Precision is more useful to a client than emphasis.
People whose exposure carries weight.
Clients fall into four broad profiles. Names are never disclosed. Sectors and roles are described only in the most general terms.
High net worth
Executives, investors, board members, family offices, and founders whose visibility is tied to wealth, ownership, or institutional position.
High profile
Public figures, journalists, judges, and elected officials whose name and likeness are matters of public discussion.
High touch
Attorneys, physicians, educators, public servants, and law enforcement professionals in routine contact with hostile or unstable individuals.
High risk
Federal agents, military personnel, activists, survivors, and whistleblowers operating under direct or persistent threat.
In their words · Speakers redacted at their request
I have gotten more than one threatening call because my work number is in every email… I have ObscureIQ scrub my data.
They tracked the actors doxxing and harassing my team. Two of three were identified with certainty, and the reports were delivered in a form law enforcement could act on.
I thought I was careful with my digital profile. I had used deletion services before. ObscureIQ was the first team to show me what my exposure still enabled.
The first step is a call.
A confidential call with us establishes your baseline exposure, your risk profile, and whether we are the right fit.
The conversation is private by default and you control what happens next. Counsel mediated introductions are welcome. Introductions from prior clients and trusted referrers receive priority response.
- Phone
- 855.76.ERASE
- info@obscureiq.com
- Counsel
- Introductions on request
- Handling
- Encrypted intake. Off the record by default.