How Newmoon works.

01Quickstart#

Three steps. The first takes a minute and works with any Grok account. The rest needs Grok Bot.

1. ScanType your first name, last name, city and state on the home page and press find me with Grok. Grok opens with a search prompt for 15 of the biggest people-search sites and comes back with where you're listed.
2. PlanScroll to the planner, add the phone number and the inbox you want to use for opt-outs, and pick a depth. The site list and the prompt update as you type.
3. RunCopy the main prompt into a Grok Bot skill called newmoon, add the routine, and say start. Scout reports first. Nothing is filed until you approve it.

02How it works#

Newmoon is one static page. It has no server, no account and no analytics. It builds text: a plan and a set of prompts. Grok does the searching, filling and clicking, inside your account, after you approve each step.

Two consequences follow. Newmoon can't see your data, so there's nothing to leak or subpoena. And Newmoon can't look anyone up by itself: every search runs in the Grok account of the person asking, under rules that limit it to that person.

03Grok quick scan#

The find me with Grok button opens grok.com/?q= with your name and city in the prompt, and copies the same prompt to your clipboard. If the Grok box opens empty, paste.

I'm Jordan Avery from Austin, TX. I want to see where my phone number and
home address are exposed online so I can remove them.

Search these people-search sites for my name and city: Whitepages, Spokeo,
BeenVerified, FastPeopleSearch, TruePeopleSearch, Intelius, MyLife, Nuwber, …

For each site give me: listed / not listed / unsure, what it shows,
and the official opt-out link. Don't open paid reports. Only look for me.

The scan is a starting point. Grok searches the open web, so a site that hides results behind a captcha can show up as unsure. The Grok Bot crew checks each site directly.

04Set up Grok Bot#

1. Create the skillIn Grok Bot, create a skill named newmoon. If someone shared a Newmoon bot link, add it in one click and skip to step 3.
2. Paste the main promptCopy it from the kit on the home page. It already contains your details, the rules, the crew and your plan in priority order.
3. Add the routinePaste routines.yml so Watch runs on each new moon. If the routine editor only takes simple schedules, choose monthly and paste the steps.
4. Say startRegistry handles Do Not Call first, then Scout searches the first five sites and stops to show you what it found.

One bot or six

The main prompt runs the whole crew in one bot, which is the simplest setup. If you'd rather watch each job separately, create six bots and give each its own prompt from the kit tabs. They share the same rules and hand work to each other by status.

Approving a draft

Before anything is sent, Filer shows you a draft like this. Your number is masked so only the last two digits show.

to: Spokeo / opt-out form · spokeo.com/optout
profile URL   spokeo.com/Jordan-Avery/Texas/Austin/p1234…
email         optouts@…
no ID · no card · nothing the listing doesn't already show

❯ approve? [y/N] y

05Commands#

The main prompt teaches your bot these phrases. Type them in the Grok Bot chat. Plain sentences work too; these are shortcuts.

06The crew#

Each bot has one job, a fixed hand-off and one rule it can't break. Open a row for details.

07Statuses#

Ledger and the tracker use the same words. The moon on the home page is lit by whatever is still open, so each status also has a weight.

Watch can move a removed site to RETRY when the listing comes back. Filer then drafts a new opt-out for your approval.

08Depth and sites#

Every depth also includes the registries (Do Not Call, Google "Results about you", OptOutPrescreen, and California's DROP portal for CA residents) and two phone settings you do yourself.

09Site flags#

Flags on each site tell you and the bots what an opt-out will need. Amber flags need a human.

10Rechecks#

Data brokers buy fresh records all the time, and a removed listing can come back within weeks. Watch searches every cleared site again on each new moon, roughly every 29.5 days.

Dates are computed in your browser with the lunar phase formulas from Jean Meeus' Astronomical Algorithms (chapter 49), accurate to a couple of minutes, and shown in your time zone. The recheck dates .ics button in the planner puts the next twelve in your calendar.

11Your data#

The planner saves to localStorage under the key newmoon.v1, in this browser only. Clear site data and it's gone. To move to another device, use backup .json and restore.

{
  "v": 1,
  "example": false,
  "me": { "first": "Jordan", "last": "Avery", "city": "Austin", "state": "TX",
          "aka": "", "phone": "", "email": "" },
  "depth": "priority",
  "status": { "spokeo": { "s": "removed", "t": "2026-10-27" } }
}

ledger .csv exports columns #, site, status, updated, opt-out link, notes, which open straight in Sheets or Excel.

12Privacy and safety#

The rules below are written into every prompt. Your bot follows them on every site, every run.

• Only you. The bots act for the person in ABOUT ME and ask before touching a relative's listing.
• Nothing without a yes. No form, email or confirmation link goes out until you approve it in chat.
• No ID, no card, no SSN. Sites that want one are marked NEEDS YOU and left for you.
• Nothing new. A site only gets details its listing already shows.
• Masked in chat. Your number shows as (XXX) •••-••41 in drafts.
• Proof or it didn't happen. Removed means a fresh empty search with a screenshot.

13Troubleshooting#

Grok opened with an empty box

The prompt is already on your clipboard. Paste it and send. Some Grok versions don't prefill from links.

An opt-out link is dead

Sites move these pages often. Your bot looks for the site's own "opt out" or "Do Not Sell" link in the footer, shows it to you and notes the new link in the ledger.

The confirmation email never came

Check the spam folder of the opt-out inbox. After 48 hours Clerk flags it and Filer retries once.

A site wants my driver's license

Your bot won't upload it. You can skip the site, or do it yourself with everything but your name and photo covered.

A listing came back

That's normal. Watch catches it on the next new moon, marks it RETRY and Filer drafts a new opt-out. Say watch now to check sooner.

I'm still getting spam calls

Do Not Call only binds legitimate telemarketers, and lists that already have your number keep it for a while. Turn on spam filtering on your phone (in the planner under "Your phone") and give removals a few weeks.

14Self-hosting#

Newmoon is a folder of static files. Any static host works.

site/          index.html · docs.html · favicon.svg · og.png  # deploy this
kit/           main prompt, six bot prompts, routines.yml, brokers.json
src/           page.html · docs.html  # edit these
motion/        launch video and its renderer
build.py       src → site

# rebuild with your domain so link previews point at it
python3 build.py https://yourdomain.com

# Netlify: drag site/ onto app.netlify.com/drop, or
npx vercel deploy site --prod

Settings

15Sources and license#

45 sites come from BADBOOL, the Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List by Yael Grauer, updated September 27, 2026 and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Newmoon restructures it for bots and shares its directory and prompts under the same license: keep the credit, keep it non-commercial, share changes alike.

The 28 sites marked Newmoon are Newmoon's own additions and carry the check link flag. Radaris and Rehold aren't listed because both are offline under a court order.

Newmoon is an independent project powered by Grok. It isn't made, affiliated with or endorsed by xAI.

16Changelog#