About us
Before StealthGPT, there was no such thing as an AI humanizer.
In early 2023, Jozef Gherman had the idea, spent days reverse-engineering an AI detector until every response came back human, and launched the first tool built to make AI writing read like a person wrote it. That created the industry, the genre and the niche. We've led it ever since. Today StealthGPT is a bootstrapped company trusted by over 1.5 million users, and we're still the team setting the pace.
Our story
2023
Jozef has the idea in January, buys stealthgpt.ai in February, and launches in March. StealthGPT reaches $10k in revenue in its first 60 days, and Josh and Gabe join by October.
2024
We launch business plans and grow to $186k in monthly recurring revenue by May. By September, StealthGPT passes $2 million in total revenue, about 577 days after launch.
2025
Joey Catalano joins in February as our first Chief Operating Officer, building out operations, sales and the StealthGPT API.
2026
We launch Super, our most advanced humanizer, built by Danil Shashkov to write like a person instead of rephrasing. StealthGPT now serves over 1.5 million users.
The team
Jozef Gherman
CEO · Employee #1
Jozef had the idea for StealthGPT in January 2023, reverse-engineered an AI detector, and launched in March. He has grown it, bootstrapped, to over 1.5 million users, and founded parent company XYZ AI.
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Danil Shashkov
CTO · Employee #5
Danil leads engineering and built Super, our humanizer model that writes like a person instead of rephrasing. He has over seven years shipping web, mobile and developer tools, and has contributed to Next.js.
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Gabriel Kapuscinski
Deputy CEO and Head of Marketing · Employee #4
Gabe has led StealthGPT's marketing since October 2023, running SEO, influencer acquisition, partnerships and our writing program. He is also CMO of XYZ AI and is based in the Tampa Bay area.
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Josh Esteba
Head of UGC · Employee #3
Josh joined in August 2023 and became Social Media Director within weeks. He now runs StealthGPT's creator program, recruiting and coaching the creators behind our TikTok, Instagram and YouTube videos.
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Ivan Beloborodov
Founding Designer
Ivan joined XYZ AI in 2026 as founding designer, bringing over 10 years designing products for startups and global companies across FinTech, travel tech and marketplaces. A psychology background shapes his human-centered approach.
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Collin Lyou
Senior LLM Research
Collin works on the language-model research behind StealthGPT's humanizer. He brings a data science background from consumer tech and helps turn new research into better, more natural writing for our users.
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Joey Catalano
COO and Head of Sales
Joey joined XYZ AI in February 2025 as its first COO and runs operations, sales and the StealthGPT API. He brings 15 years in SaaS sales and partnerships, most recently as a VP at SkillStorm.
LinkedInPaste. Humanize. Done.
StealthGPT's AI humanizer transforms any AI text into natural, undetectable human writing in seconds. 99% bypass rate. 1,000+ languages. No rewriting required.