About SleuthPost

Three years after my divorce, I started using Hinge. A few weeks in, I subscribed to TruthFinder. Not because I was paranoid, but because I'm a bookkeeper: I like records, and "trust but verify" has always felt more comfortable to me than just trusting. The first search I ran turned up a mailing address in a city a man had specifically told me he'd never lived in. I saved the screenshot. We didn't go on a second date.

That was 2022. Since then I've run over 60 lookups across different contexts: first dates from Hinge, the HVAC contractor who got evasive when I asked about his license, my daughter's prospective babysitter, a cousin trying to reconnect after twenty years. I've paid for TruthFinder, Spokeo, BeenVerified, and PeopleFinders, a few hundred dollars across subscriptions. Some services surface real records. Others pull the same stale data, package it nicely, and charge $30 a month for it. SleuthPost is my record of which services actually find what you're looking for and which ones are mostly interface with not much behind it.

One thing worth calling out plainly: People Search results are not FCRA-compliant and cannot be used for tenant screening, hiring decisions, credit checks, or any other federally regulated purpose. That's a legal line, not a suggestion.

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