Ranjan Singh is the founder of Omit Systems and the builder of Omit, an offline PII redaction suite for Windows. He is a generative AI and product engineer who builds production AI systems, and Omit is the privacy layer of that work: local-first detection and redaction, so personal data can be cleaned without leaving the machine it lives on.
Before Omit came Telos, an app where people write down the most personal things about themselves. Making it useful meant sending some of that writing to a language model, which is where the problem stopped being abstract: private text leaving the machine for a service nobody in the conversation controlled. The tooling to strip the personal details out first either uploaded the text in order to find the names in it, or was a set of libraries you assembled yourself. Omit Systems exists because that step should not be something every team rebuilds, and because the only control that holds is making the sensitive data never leave the machine.
That is also why the writing here carries numbers. When a claim can be measured it gets measured, the corpus and the metric are published with it, and when the measurement goes against us that gets published too. Founder opinion and benchmarks go out under my name. Product reference and documentation ship under Omit.
What I work on
- Personally identifiable information
- Data redaction
- Data privacy
- Offline and local-first software
- Named entity recognition
- Microsoft Presidio
- Privacy layers for AI systems
- Windows desktop applications
Published work
- Omit vs Google Cloud DLP: the Fast tier
56 scored cells across 34 structured entity types, strict F2, method and corpus published.
- Omit vs Google Cloud DLP: the Accuracy tier
1,500 documents of prose, including the three defects the measurement found in our own detection.
- How to redact a court filing under Rule 5.2
The four identifier categories, and why three of them are partial disclosures rather than deletions.
- Why we built Omit
The app that made the problem concrete, and the redaction step that turned into a product.
Reach me
The blog is where the writing lives. The security page explains the offline guarantee and how to verify it for yourself, and Omit Redact is the app that ships today. For anything else, email hello@omitsys.com, or use one of the profiles at the top of this page.