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Feature deep-dive

We never read your email.

Every other product that claims to protect your inbox does so by reading it. Glance does not. We work from headers and metadata only — and for the small fraction of emails that need deeper analysis, the ML model runs on your device, not ours.

What Glance sees. What it never touches.

What we scan

  • Sender email address

    To check against allowlist, blocklist, and reputation.

  • Sender domain

    Domain age, registration history, homoglyph detection.

  • SPF / DKIM / DMARC records

    Authentication signals: is this sender who they claim to be?

  • Email headers

    Routing path, relay hops, X-headers for spoofing signals.

  • Link domains (not content)

    We check if linked domains are on threat intel lists.

What we never touch

  • Email subject line

    Not stored. Not sent to any server.

  • Email body text

    Processed in-memory only if Tier 4 ML is triggered. Immediately discarded.

  • Email attachments

    Not accessed.

  • Your contacts list

    Not accessed.

  • Previous emails

    Historical content is never accessed.

4 tiers of detection. 0 reads of your content.

Each tier runs in sequence. Most emails are resolved in milliseconds at Tier 1 or 2. Only grey-area emails reach Tier 4 — and even then, the model runs on your device.

Tier 1

Allowlist / Blocklist

<1ms

Instant check — does this sender appear on your approved or blocked list?

Body: not read

Tier 2

Heuristics

<100ms

SPF / DKIM / DMARC validation, domain age, homoglyph detection, redirect chain analysis.

Body: not read

Tier 3

Threat Intelligence

<300ms

Cross-referenced against VirusTotal, AbuseIPDB, Google Safe Browsing, Spamhaus, and OpenPhish.

Body: not read

Tier 4

ML Analysis (grey area only)

<50ms

LightGBM ONNX model — runs locally on device, never on our server. F1: 0.9919. Triggered for borderline cases (score 20–80) only.

Body: not read

Why this matters for seniors.

Email is private. It should stay that way.

Medical questions, financial decisions, conversations with doctors and lawyers — seniors use email for sensitive matters. A security product that reads those emails to protect them is not protecting them.

Trust is the product.

Your parent is trusting Glance to protect them. That trust should not require handing over their private correspondence. Zero-knowledge means we have earned protection another way.

Family should not need to read it either.

Companions see sender metadata — not the email content. Your parent's dignity is preserved. You make approval decisions based on who is sending, not what they wrote.

Protection that respects privacy.

No emails read. No bodies stored. Full protection.

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