We built DecEptioner because a good student got an F.
He hadn't touched an AI. He'd spent weeks on that paper. A detector said otherwise, and his professor believed the detector. DecEptioner exists so that never decides someone's grade, job, or reputation again.
DecEptioner started with a phone call. One of our founder's college friends had just been failed for a paper he wrote himself — flagged as "AI-generated" by a detector his professor trusted without question. He was devastated. He hadn't used any AI at all.
Looking into it, we found the problem ran far deeper than one classroom. These detectors were failing constantly, and not just on students.
The U.S. Constitution. Wikipedia entries. New York Times articles published years before ChatGPT existed. Popular "AI detectors" have called all of them machine-written.
If tools this confident can't tell a centuries-old founding document from a chatbot, they have no business deciding whether a real person did their own work. So we built DecEptioner — a way for honest writers to rewrite their work so it reads as unmistakably human and stops triggering false flags. Months of work later, it became the tool thousands of writers, students, and professionals rely on today.
We're a small team that ships improvements by the day, and we'd rather earn your trust with a tool that works than a pitch that sounds good.
The people behind it
A few humans who got tired of watching software accuse honest writers.
Shadab Sayeed
Founder & CEOShadab is a techie at heart with years of experience writing content and shipping code. He started out as a freelancer, built DecEptioner to help his falsely-accused friend, and now spends his days improving the product and his nights writing for clients.
Shaif Ahmad
COOShaif is a mechanical engineer and unrepentant car enthusiast. His calm, long-term head for decisions earned him the nickname "Steady Sage" on the team. When he isn't talking cars, you'll find him learning MySQL and Python.
Mohammad Shahid
Front-End EngineerShahid is a product-minded developer who led DecEptioner's frontend end to end — the editor flow, the component library, and the performance work that makes it feel fast. He also owns the hard edges users actually feel: empty and error states, loading skeletons, and clear recovery paths.
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