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Send any suspicious email — phishing attempt, weird invoice, "urgent" wire request — to scan@firstdesk.tech
Our FirstDesk-exclusive scanning engine checks for 30 threat types in seconds — domain fraud, wire fraud signals, impersonation, malicious links, and more.
A branded verdict email comes straight back to you: SAFE, SUSPICIOUS, or DANGEROUS — with plain-English explanations.
Zero or near-zero threat signals. Sender is legitimate. Links are consistent. You're good to proceed.
1–2 soft signals detected. Something doesn't add up. Verify the sender independently before clicking or replying.
Already clicked? Get help →Clear threat detected. Phishing, wire fraud attempt, credential theft, or impersonation. Do not click. Do not reply.
Already clicked? Act now →They said 'let them eat cake.' Then they lost their heads. We built FirstDesk so everyone gets a slice — and we mean it.
Cybersecurity shouldn't belong only to the people who can afford an IT department.
"Updated wiring instructions" is the #1 scam targeting real estate transactions. Agents, title companies, attorneys — one click can cost a client their entire down payment.
$275.1M lost in 2025 alone.
Protect your transactions →FirstDesk automatically flags these words in any email forwarded by a real estate professional:
Watch how 30-Point Threat Analysis protects your inbox in real time.
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Gift a FirstDesk membership to the person in your life who clicks every link they see. Give them the bodyguard they didn't know they needed.
Gift a Membership →"FirstDesk flagged a wire fraud attempt before I forwarded closing instructions. It saved my client $87,000 at the table. This is not optional for real estate professionals."
"I forward every suspicious email I get at the office. The verdict comes back in under a minute. It's like having a security expert on call — for $9 a month."
"My accountant received a fake vendor invoice. FirstDesk caught it as DANGEROUS. We would have wired $12,000 to a scammer. This product pays for itself every single month."
Forward any email, get a verdict. No credit card. No account required to start.
Everything in Free plus priority support, the Rescue Promise, and Threat of the Day training.
Daily threat intelligence email for your whole team. Live AI-powered, real threats, plain English.
You forward one email. Here’s exactly what happens — and what doesn’t.
Arrives at scan@firstdesk.tech over encrypted TLS connection. Only you triggered this — we never access your inbox.
→Our AI reads threat signals only: links, sender patterns, urgency language, impersonation cues. Not your words. Not your identity.
→Safe. Suspicious. Dangerous. Delivered back to your inbox within 60 seconds. Plain English. No jargon.
→The forwarded copy is permanently deleted from our system. Not archived. Not stored. Never touched by human hands. Gone.
No credit card. No account required. Just forward an email.
Forward anything suspicious to scan@firstdesk.tech. Our 30-Point Threat Analysis does the rest.
Something feels off. Maybe it's from your "CEO" asking for gift cards. Maybe it's an invoice from a vendor you've never heard of. Maybe it's Norton telling you they're about to charge $292.99. Instead of guessing — forward it.
From any email client — Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail. Just hit forward and send it to scan@firstdesk.tech. That's the entire process. No login. No app to download. No setup required.
Think of airport security. Our FirstDesk-exclusive AI scanning engine checks the email against 30 threat categories in seconds. Domain legitimacy, sender impersonation, wire fraud signals, suspicious links, attachment types, urgency language, grammar patterns, header spoofing, and 22 more. We check the weapon, not the suitcase — we analyze threat signals only, never your personal content. And you don't even have to take your shoes off.
A branded verdict email lands in your inbox: SAFE, SUSPICIOUS, or DANGEROUS — with a plain-English explanation of exactly what we found. No jargon. No tech speak. Just the answer you needed.
We analyze threat signals only. We never read, store, or share your personal content. Your privacy is the foundation of everything we do.
We check the weapon, not the suitcase. When you forward us one email, that is all we ever process. Not your inbox. Not your contacts. Not your history. Just the one email you chose to send us.
That email is analyzed by our AI, your verdict is returned, and the email is immediately discarded. No storage. No surveillance. No selling. We are not in the data business — we are in the protection business.
The scan is free forever. Membership unlocks the rescue plan, daily training, and a team that has your back when things go wrong.
Unlimited email scans. No account. No credit card. Forward and get your verdict.
Complete protection. When something goes wrong, we're there — live, within 24 hours.
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Daily threat briefing for your whole team. Powered by live AI threat intelligence. Office plan available.
Unlimited scans plus a daily email challenge that sharpens your instincts against scams — one threat at a time.
Only 100 spots. First 100 members get $7/mo instead of $9/mo — forever. Plus the Founding Member badge and direct founder access.
| Feature | FirstDesk | KnowBe4 | Mimecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $9/mo | $50/user/year | Enterprise only |
| IT dept required? | ✗ Not needed | ✓ Required | ✓ Required |
| Free scan tier | ✓ Forever free | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Plain-English verdicts | ✓ Always | ✗ Technical | ✗ Technical |
| Available to individuals | ✓ Yes | ✗ Enterprise only | ✗ Enterprise only |
| Rescue / incident response | ✓ Rescue Promise | ✗ No | Limited |
| Wire fraud detection | ✓ Red Card feature | Basic | Basic |
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A daily intelligence briefing that keeps your team one step ahead. Powered by live AI threat data. Written for humans, not IT departments.
Every morning, your team gets a real threat — pulled from live intelligence — explained in plain English. What it looks like. What to watch for. What to do if you see it. No jargon. No boring compliance slides.
A scammer intercepts a real estate transaction email and sends "updated wiring instructions" just before closing. The buyer wires their down payment — to the wrong account. Funds are gone within minutes. Recovery is rare.
$275.1M lost in 2025 alone. One email. One click. One closing gone. FirstDesk gives every agent the same protection enterprise title companies pay tens of thousands for.
When our engine detects wire fraud signals in any email you forward, it doesn't just flag it as Dangerous — it triggers a dedicated Red Card response. Special layout. Maximum urgency. Clear guidance. Because a wire fraud attempt in a real estate transaction is not like other threats.
Forward the suspicious email from your phone on the way to a showing. Get the verdict before you reply. It takes 10 seconds. It can save a closing.
Protect Your TransactionsHR departments, small business owners, church administrators, nonprofit teams — FirstDesk was built for the people who run organizations but don't have an IT department.
HR teams receive fake vendor invoices, CEO fraud emails, and W-2 phishing constantly. FirstDesk gives every HR professional a 30-point check before they act on anything financial.
Small businesses are targeted 3x more than enterprises — and have none of the defenses. FirstDesk levels the playing field for $9/month.
Community organizations handle donations, vendor payments, and sensitive member data with zero security budget. The free scan tier was built for you.
And requires an IT department to run it. The grandmother who lost $287,000 never had a chance. Neither did the small business owner who wired $45,000 to a fake vendor.
FirstDesk gives everyone the same protection for $9/month.
Michelle A. Diaz didn't build FirstDesk with AI. She built FirstDesk on AI. Perplexity isn't a feature — it's the foundation.
Builder. Entrepreneur.
Michelle A. Diaz is a builder — she just doesn't look like what Silicon Valley thinks a builder should look like. Back in school at 55 completing her Cybersecurity A.A. at Westchester Community College, finishing what she started in 1989. Founder & CEO of The Agro Impact Company LLC.
I spent decades as an EA — the person who opens every email, manages every executive's calendar, and has access to everything that matters in a company. And I watched us get targeted, constantly, with zero tools built for people like us.
So I built FirstDesk. Not for IT departments. For the rest of us. The executive assistants, the real estate agents, the grandmothers, the small business owners who never had a chance.
"There's a famous story about a queen who didn't think regular people deserved the good stuff. It didn't end well for her. FirstDesk exists because we believe everybody — the executive assistant, the grandmother, the small business owner, the church administrator — deserves the same protection that Fortune 500 companies pay thousands for."
Michelle's grandfather, Frank P. Diaz, built a furniture store formerly at 818 Westchester Avenue in The Bronx — open for 75 years, serving three generations of families. He sold beautiful furniture to everyone, regardless of what they could afford. Michelle learned this story through her father, Samuel Frank Diaz, named after his own father and the keeper of that legacy. Two days ago, Samuel asked Michelle to open something new in that same neighborhood. She plans to run her FirstDesk office from there — right where the family story began.
Michelle's mother worked in a big Manhattan office building. She knew every single person's name — from the janitors to the CEOs. Not because she had to. Because she believed it was her business to make sure everyone was seen and treated the same.
"I greet everyone the same. I try to give everyone a great experience regardless of how much money they have or make." Michelle has carried that her whole life. FirstDesk is that philosophy — applied to cybersecurity.
FirstDesk was co-founded with Perplexity Computer — an AI co-founder and architect. Not a tool. A partner. The scanning engine, the architecture, the product strategy — all built on Perplexity's infrastructure. This is what building on AI actually looks like.
"There's a famous story about a queen who didn't think regular people deserved the good stuff. It didn't end well for her. FirstDesk exists because we believe everybody — the executive assistant, the grandmother, the small business owner, the church administrator — deserves the same protection that Fortune 500 companies pay thousands for."
— Michelle A. Diaz, Founder & CEO
Every person who uses FirstDesk gets genuine protection. The scan is free. Forever. The same 30-Point Threat Analysis enterprise teams pay thousands for — available to anyone with an email address.
FirstDesk is a sustainable company. Revenue from memberships and team plans funds ongoing development, the Rescue Promise, and the infrastructure that keeps the free tier free for everyone.
A portion of every subscription funds the A.G.R.O. Foundation — free scanning for nonprofits, cybersecurity job training pipelines, and school partnerships in underserved communities.
Free scanning and cybersecurity tools for nonprofits, community organizations, and underserved individuals
Plain-language cybersecurity education that meets people where they are — no tech background required
Job training pipelines that connect community members to the 3.5M unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally
School and community partnerships that build the next generation of cybersecurity professionals
Most founders build a business first. The foundation comes later — after the exit, after the success, after there's enough left over. It's the final chapter. The thank-you note.
That's not this.
Michelle A. Diaz didn't add a foundation to FirstDesk. She built FirstDesk to fund one.
Visiting her father at his store in the Bronx, a young Michelle would look out the window at the neighborhood — watching the streets, the people, the potential — and wonder who would come back to invest in the communities that needed it most. That question never left. It became a calling.
The A.G.R.O. Foundation exists because of that girl in that car. Every scan. Every member. Every team that subscribes — it moves the mission forward.
A.G.R.O. stands for the mission that drives everything:
Amplifying · Generational · Resilience · Opportunity
For 75 years, Frank P. Diaz gave people something most businesses wouldn't: dignity. He sold beautiful furniture to families who were told they couldn't afford beautiful things — three generations of customers who came back because he made every single person feel important. He closed around 2012, but the lesson never did.
His son, Samuel Frank Diaz — named after his father — carried that lesson forward and passed it to Michelle. Two days ago, Samuel asked Michelle to open something new in that same neighborhood. She said yes. FirstDesk's first office will be exactly where the family story began.
The A.G.R.O. Foundation exists to give every community what Frank P. Diaz gave The Bronx — Amplifying. Generational. Resilience. Opportunity. The store is gone. The mission isn't.
Cybersecurity jobs unfilled globally — the largest talent gap in any industry
Average cybersecurity salary in the United States — accessible with the right training
Unemployment rate in cybersecurity — once you're trained, you're employed
Close the suspicious page or attachment immediately. Do not click any additional links, do not enter any passwords, do not call any phone numbers in the email. The moment you stop is the moment the damage stops spreading.
Turn off Wi-Fi on your device immediately. If you're on a work computer, physically unplug the ethernet cable. This stops any malware from communicating back to an attacker's server or spreading to other devices on your network.
Using your phone or another computer, change the passwords for your email account, banking, and any accounts that use the same password. Enable two-factor authentication everywhere you can, right now.
If the email threatened to release compromising information, demanded payment to "fix" your computer, or claimed to be law enforcement — do not send money. These are scams. Payment does not make them stop. Contact us instead.
We'll walk you through exactly what to do next based on what you clicked. No judgment. No jargon. Just practical steps. Members get the Rescue Promise — 24hr response, 72hr resolution, with remote support if needed.
Members get a 24-hour response and 72-hour resolution commitment. We'll connect via AnyDesk to help remediate your device and accounts remotely. Because when something goes wrong, you shouldn't have to figure it out alone.
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