Free Tater
$0
Best for individuals who want basic email scam warnings.
- Browser extension
- Email risk badges
- Plain-English red flags
- Basic Ask Tater analyzer
- Basic risky-link warnings
Decision safety for families & teams
The safety net between a suspicious message and a bad decision.
Plain-English warnings before you click, reply, send money, share account information, or keep talking to a scammer.
Free Tater helps spot risky emails. Tater Family and Tater Teams add accountability, escalation, and stronger protection when the stakes are higher.
Inbox · 3 new
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Sarah (Daughter)
9:24 AMPhotos from the weekend
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Bank Security Team
9:31 AMURGENT: Verify your account or it will be closed
4 red flags detected
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City Library
8:02 AMYour book hold is ready for pickup
Slow down before you reply
“This message pressures you to act fast. Don’t send account info. Ask a trusted person first.”
See it in action
What Tater looks like when something is wrong
Free Tater spots risky emails. Paid Tater helps make sure nobody handles risky decisions alone.
Example scenario
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Suspicious bank email arrives
Mom opens a message that looks urgent and official.
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Tater badge turns red
Plain-English red flags appear — urgency, fake sender, payment pressure.
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Tater explains what to do
Do not reply. Do not call the number in the email. Open the bank app directly.
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Risky action is slowed down
If she tries to reply or click a link, Tater pauses and recommends safer steps.
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Tell Someone or Ask Guardian
Early accessFree: privacy-safe summary to share. Family early access: guardian alert with response options.
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Verify safely
Use the official app or a number already trusted — not contact details from the email.
Guardian alert steps are Tater Family early access.
Beyond warnings
Tater doesn’t just warn you. It helps stop the risky action.
Free Tater spots risky messages. Paid Tater adds accountability, escalation, and stronger protection when the stakes are higher.
- Detect
- Explain
- Slow
- Verify
- Ask Someone
- Act Safely
A real moment Tater is built for
Mom gets an email that looks like it came from her bank. Tater spots the red flags.
She tries to reply with account information. Tater slows her down and explains the risk in plain English.
She taps Tell Someone (free today) or Ask My Guardian Early access. Her daughter gets an alert and replies: “Don’t respond. Call me.”
The conversation stops before money or information is lost.
For adult children & caregivers
You can’t review every suspicious message for your parents. Tater helps you know when they need you.
Scams often work because the victim is isolated, rushed, or embarrassed. Tater gives your parent a simple warning in the moment and gives you visibility into the high-risk situations that actually matter — not their entire inbox.
- Mom receives a red-risk email asking for gift cards.
- Dad tries to reply to a suspicious banking message.
- A parent asks you to review a strange text or email.
- Someone is already talking to a possible scammer and needs help stopping.
Sensitive-send protection
Sometimes the most important warning comes before you hit Send.
Tater can help detect when a risky conversation is moving toward sensitive information or money — and slow the action down before something irreversible happens.
If someone is about to send financial details, gift card codes, passwords, or other sensitive information, Tater can explain the danger in plain English and help them ask a trusted person before sending.
Tater watches for attempts to share:
- Account and routing numbers
- Gift card codes
- Social Security numbers
- Passwords
- Credit card numbers
- Crypto wallet information
- Wire instructions
- Payroll information
- W-9s or tax documents
- Vendor payment changes
Available with Tater Family and Tater Teams. Free Tater includes basic risky-link and reply warnings.
Privacy-first
Your inbox stays yours.
Tater is a decision-safety layer — not a surveillance tool. We built it so families can help without reading every private message.
- Email analysis happens on your device by default.
- Tater does not store full email bodies on its servers by default.
- Family members see risk alerts, not private inbox access.
- Full-message sharing is optional and controlled by the protected user.
- Optional dashboard sync is clearly disclosed and off unless you turn it on.
- Tater is designed to help, not spy.
Tater for Teams
Early accessGive employees a safe way to stop and ask before acting.
Tater Teams helps small businesses catch the human decision moments that lead to losses: fake invoices, vendor impersonation, payroll changes, gift card requests, executive impersonation, and suspicious requests for sensitive data.
Join the Tater Teams PilotBuilt for small teams, not giant IT departments
- Employee extension protection
- Send to HR, finance, IT, or manager
- Payment-change verification
- Sensitive-send protection
- Admin view of orange/red events
- Plain-English risk summaries
Pilot pricing available. No enterprise sales deck required.
What are you trying to protect?
Choose the path that fits — you can always explore more later.
Pricing
Start free. Add accountability when you need it.
Free Tater warns you when something looks risky. Paid Tater helps make sure nobody handles risky decisions alone.
Tater Family
Early access$99
/year starter · $149/year family plan
Best for adult children protecting parents or loved ones.
- Everything in Free
- Guardian alerts for orange/red events
- Ask My Guardian
- Guard Level settings
- Sensitive-send protection
- Stop Contact Mode
- Recovery guidance
- Weekly family safety summary
Tater Teams
Early accessPilot
Contact us for pricing
Best for small businesses protecting employees from phishing and payment fraud.
- Employee protection
- Manager/HR/finance review workflow
- Payment-change verification
- Sensitive business info warnings
- Admin dashboard
- Team safety summaries
Family and Teams plans are in early access — billing not live yet. Join the waitlist to get first access.
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly
No. Tater is designed to surface high-risk orange and red events, not give family members access to someone's inbox. Full message sharing is optional and controlled by the protected user. Privacy overview
No, not by default. Email analysis happens locally in the browser. Optional dashboard sync is limited to metadata and is clearly disclosed. Learn more
Tater explains the risk in plain English, slows down risky actions, and can help the user verify safely or ask a trusted person before acting.
Guard Level lets a family choose how much friction and accountability they want — from gentle warnings (free default) to stronger protection for high-risk financial messages. Full Guard Level settings are part of Tater Family early access.
No. Families are the primary consumer use case, but Tater also helps small businesses protect employees from phishing, invoice fraud, vendor impersonation, payroll scams, and payment-change fraud. Tater Teams
No. Tater is a decision-safety layer. It helps people slow down, understand risk, verify safely, and ask the right person before acting.
Tater works in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook on the web (including outlook.cloud.microsoft), and AT&T/BellSouth webmail via a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Safari on macOS is early access. Full compatibility list
Core email protection is free. Tater Family starts at $99/year (early access — billing not live yet). Tater Teams is available as a pilot.
Early access program
Join Family or Teams Early Access
Free Tater is available now. Reserve your spot for Tater Family or Tater Teams — guardian alerts, Guard Level settings, and business review workflows.