About us

We live at the intersection of privacy & machine learning.

Our Mission

THE MISSION OF PII TOOLS IS TO BRING MODERN AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY INTO THE WORLD OF DATA PRIVACY.

WE EQUIP INFOSEC, LEGAL AND DATA PROTECTION TEAMS WITH ACCURATE AND EASY-TO-USE SOFTWARE FOR DISCOVERY AND REMEDIATION OF SENSITIVE DATA.

What PII Tools brings to the game is clarity and quality, both in technology and in the business model. Our context-aware PII detectors come from years of cutting edge research into Artificial Intelligence.

Why did we start PII Tools?

  • Clarity and honesty. AI is quickly becoming a vacuous buzzword. As an AI-first company and world-leading PhD experts in machine learning, we think the world deserves better.

  • Focus on technology. Intelligent automation doesn't have to be a marketing after-thought. We bring over a decade of research excellence, award-winning open source software used by thousands of companies world-wide, and over a thousand peer-reviewed citations.

  • Passion for pragmatic solutions. With a strong background in IT services, we know how to listen to customers and combine quality engineering with stellar support.

PII Tools is ISO 27001 Certified

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is, similarly to SOC 2, an international standard on how to manage information security. We passed this certification in 2022 with flying colors because, as a team of technology experts and engineers, our internal tooling and processes already go beyond what a standardized set of requirements prescribes.
PII Tools is ISO 27001 Certified

Our History

  • MARCH 2010

    First public release of Gensim, our open source NLP software.

  • MAY 2014

    Incorporated UK office in Bristol, UK

  • OCTOBER 2015

    Launch of corporate Machine Learning and NLP trainings

  • JANUARY 2017

    Office opening in Brno, CZ

  • JANUARY 2018

    Launch of PII Tools

  • AUGUST 2024

    PII Tools redeveloped and sold by PII Tools Limited, a Cyprus company

  • NOW

    Serving customers with superior PII Discovery world-wide

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Radim Řehůřek
CEO and founder

"The overarching theme is trust. Our modern digital economy is powered by selling other people's data, sometimes sneakily and sometimes by breach accident. We can do better."

"PII Tools is a part of a new wave to bring personal agency back to the individual. Reestablish trust between companies and their customers."

Founder of PII Tools, with over a decade of experience in building cutting edge AI solutions, Radim is a recognized expert in the field of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Radim's public work includes speaking and writing:

✅ Conference talks and keynotes

✅ Podcasts

✅ Open source projects

✅ Social media: @radimrehurek, @gensim_py

With a passion for open source software, Radim authored popular free libraries like Gensim, SmartOpen, Bounter, SqliteDict and others.

Radim holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the CS department of Masaryk University in Brno.

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