Philterd Joins the gBETA Fall 2026 Cohort at Marshall's iCenter

Philterd has been selected for the Fall 2026 cohort of gBETA at Marshall’s iCenter, Powered by Quality Insights. The Marshall University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship announced the cohort on LinkedIn this week, and Philterd is one of the five companies in it. gBETA is a free, seven-week accelerator for early-stage companies with strong local roots, and it gives each founder access to gener8tor’s national network of mentors and partners.

Why now

Philterd is not new. Phileas, the redaction library underneath Philter, has existed for several years and has run in production at healthcare, legal, and financial customers. Philter serves enterprises that run redaction in their own cloud or data center, and Philter Desktop brings the same approach to individual users as an offline Windows app.

Diagram: Philterd's three products. Philter is a self-hosted redaction API for enterprises. Philter Desktop is an offline Windows app for individual users. Philter One, coming soon, is an all-in-one redaction computer for small offices. Each runs where the documents are. — Philter for enterprises, Philter Desktop for individual users, and Philter One, coming soon, for small offices.

The next product is Philter One, and it is the reason the timing is right. Philter One is a small computer for small offices that comes set up to find and redact personal information in documents, with a review step so a person checks every redaction. It runs on the office’s own network, so the documents stay there. It is also the first piece of hardware Philterd has built, and selling a box to a small office works differently from listing an open source API on a cloud marketplace. Pricing, setup, and support all change, and that is where I want help over the next seven weeks.

That help is what the program is built around. Its stated goal is real traction for each founder, whether that means pilots, customers, or capital. For Philter One, traction starts with getting it in front of small offices before it ships, running pilots with a few of them, and learning what they need from it rather than guessing.

Following along

I plan to write about what I learn once the seven weeks are done, including the parts that turn out to be uncomfortable. If your team is weighing PII or PHI redaction and would be open to a pilot, the consulting page explains how an engagement works, and the code is on GitHub if you would rather start there.

Thank you to Marshall’s iCenter, gener8tor, and Quality Insights for making the program possible, and to the other four founders, who I am looking forward to working alongside this fall.