How I Built a Serverless AI-Powered OSINT Tool With Zero Backend and Zero Budget
Every OSINT tool ever built was made for people who already know everything.
Shodan, Maltego, SpiderFoot — powerful tools, all of them. But hand one to a small business owner and they'll stare at the output completely lost. I was that person once. So I built
PhantomCheck: a serverless, AI-powered OSINT tool that scans any domain, email, or IP and explains what it found in three completely different output modes depending on who's asking.
This article is not the origin story — that's on Medium. This is the technical breakdown: the architecture decisions, the AI problems I didn't expect, the routing bug that broke everything, and how I built a feature that doesn't exist anywhere else.
