Sift Science

Import-export framework: take a Big Tech internal tool and sell it to everyone

Shaan describes a repeatable startup pattern: engineers who built internal tooling at a giant (fraud detection at Facebook, synthetic data at Palantir) spin out and sell that same capability to every other company. He calls it his import-export framework.

“Similar story, by the way, ex-Facebook guys who were dealing with the spam problem at Facebook spun out and created Sift Science. So if you have any platform, they'll help you fight fraud and spam. And using the same stuff that Facebook was building internally, they exported that idea. This is my old import-export framework.”

Steal thisSpot a tool Big Tech built internally to solve its own pain, then build the standalone version for everyone else.