A New Category of Social Media

The internet was supposed to be a window.

It became a weapon — pointed at our children. We built the only one that points back.

Xaidus is the social platform where you decide what you see. An AI guardian watches every chat for predators, scams, and manipulation in real time. Parents stay informed without surveillance.

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A safer feed for the next generation Three teenage girls looking at a phone together
The
Pain

The algorithm decides what your child sees. Not your child.

Two billion people are trapped under the same push-algorithm. Children are paying the highest price — in anxiety, in safety, in the relationship with their parents. The push-algorithm is not a side effect. It is the product.

01 · Mental health

A generation, quietly bleeding.

Comparison spirals, comment-section attacks, and algorithmic doom-loops drive anxiety, depression and isolation in teens across every region.

02 · Predators & scams

Open DMs are open season.

Grooming, sextortion and financial scams reach children in minutes inside the apps they already use every day.

03 · Lost trust

Parents and teens, at war.

Existing parental controls surveil, restrict and get bypassed with a VPN. Every fight over screen time costs another piece of the relationship.

More than 38% of users have already pasted personal chats into ChatGPT and asked "how do I handle this?" — people are clearly looking for help that no platform provides.
The
Verdict

For the first time, a jury said they are liable.

The shields are cracking. Across 2026, the courts have started telling Big Tech what parents have known for a decade — the platforms are responsible for what their algorithms do to children.

$6M
California, March 2026 — Meta & Google found liable for youth addiction in K.G.M. v. Meta et al.
$375M
New Mexico, March 2026 — Meta found to have violated state consumer protection law.
2,000+
Massachusetts SJC (April 2026) cleared the way — 2,000+ similar suits now pending nationwide.
95%
Of US teens use social media; ~1 in 3 use it "almost constantly." Pew Research.

TikTok and Snapchat settled before trial. Meta did not. Every social-media platform now reads these verdicts as a forecast of their next ten-year liability schedule — and that opens a third customer for us.

The
Platforms

We sit alongside the apps your child already uses.

Xaidus does not ask anyone to delete Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, or YouTube. Instead, Xaidus pulls a safer alternative feed and an AI guardian sits in the chat layer — so the harm vectors inside those existing platforms have somewhere to be stopped.

Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
YouTube
X
Meta

Logos shown above are minimal monochrome representations only. Xaidus is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the platforms named. We pull only publicly available content and observe risk patterns in our own messaging layer.

The
Solution

Pull, not push.

Xaidus works like a search engine for the social feed you wish existed. You tell us what you actually want — interests, people, communities, topics — and we pull publicly available short video and content that matches. The algorithm doesn't push you anywhere you didn't ask to go.

01 · You define

Your feed,
your call.

Sports Chess Music Business Comedy Coding
Pick the interests. Skip the rage-bait.
Step 01 · You define
02 · Xaidus pulls

Public short video, matched to you.

Match · Chess opening
Match · Acoustic guitar
Match · Build day
Match · Stand-up clip
Step 02 · Xaidus pulls
03 · AI guards

Every chat, in real time.

AI Alert
This message looks like a grooming pattern we've seen before. Pause before replying?
Predator pattern
Scam template
Step 03 · AI guards

No partnership with Meta, X, YouTube, or Google required. We pull only publicly available content — the same way a search engine reads public web pages. A search engine for the feed you wish existed.

A look
Inside

The essence of the app, in four screens.

These are illustrative previews of the user-defined feed, the AI guardian, the calm parent dashboard, and the goals loop. The full 300+ screen front-end is reviewed post-NDA.

Home
You define

Your feed,
your call.

Chess Music Sports Coding
Chess · 0:48
Magnus opens with d4
Music · 1:12
Backstage at the album drop
HomeSearchChatsGoals
01 · Pull feed

The teen picks the interests. We pull public short-video that matches — no algorithmic push.

Unknown #4192
hey, you look amazing in that pic 😍
are your parents home rn?
can we keep this between us?
⚠ Xaidus AI
Matches a known grooming pattern. Pause before replying?
Block Why?
HomeSearchChatsGoals
02 · AI guardian

An always-on AI flags grooming, scams and manipulation — and steps in before the teen replies.

Parent

Maya's week.

Effort up 14% from last week.

Music
28%
Chess
22%
Sports
18%
Business
16%
Goal progress

3 of 5 weekly check-ins complete

HomePromptsGoalsTrust
03 · Parent layer

Categories of content and goal progress. Never messages. Never specific videos. Trust stays intact.

10-sec check-in
Daily

Did you practice the Sicilian today?

Two buttons. That's it.

Yes ✓ Not yet
Streak: 4 days · longest 9

Effort, not perfection.

HomeSearchChatsGoals
04 · Goals & rewards

One to three goals a week. A ten-second daily check-in. Effort scoring. Real rewards when teens hit them.

A group of laughing teens

Built for the kids the algorithm has forgotten.

Teens are the initiators. Parents are the buyers. And now — the platforms themselves.

Four
Tiers

One safer place to be online.

Every part of Xaidus is built around the same idea: the user is in control of the feed, and the platform protects them while they are.

01

User-defined pull feed.

You pick the interests, the accounts, the communities. We pull short videos and posts that match. No "for-you" hijack.

02

AI safety agent on chats.

Always-on AI reads incoming and outgoing messages for grooming, scams and emotional manipulation — and steps in when risk crosses a threshold.

03

Parent layer — categories, not content.

Parents see what kinds of content their teen engages with — sports, music, business, comedy. Never the specific videos, posts or DMs.

04

Goals & rewards loop.

Teens set real-world objectives. Real rewards when they hit them. Less screen time. More built.

The Trust Posture

Parents stay calm.
Teens stay free.

Every "parental safety" app forces a tradeoff between surveillance and privacy. Xaidus refuses the tradeoff. Parents see the shape of their child's online life — never the inside of it.

We don't control the teen. We coach the teen.

Surveillance kills retention. Trust is what teens keep open.

Two teenage girls smiling at phones
Why
Now

The category just opened.

Two regulatory shifts and one courtroom shift have turned this from a parent-led purchase into a three-customer market: families, organizations, and the platforms themselves.

2.0B
Social users globally — all under algorithmic push.
~1.0B
Teens and young adults — our wedge segment.
10+
Countries passing under-18 social media laws in 2025–26.
$10B+
Trust & Safety spend per year — compliance-driven, growing fast.

Snapchat won on privacy. Xaidus wins on user-controlled feed plus a real AI guardian. Same shape of moat — wider category, and now with regulators pulling demand forward.

Diverse teens holding phones

This is not a regional bet.

Everywhere social media exists, this problem exists. We are building a global category.

Why
Nothing has fixed this

Existing tools treat the symptom. We change the system.

Today's playbook

Block, surveil, restrict.

Parental controls and screen-time apps. Teens bypass them with a VPN. Parents lose trust. The algorithm keeps pushing the same content from the same direction.

What's actually needed

Change who controls the feed.

If the user defines the content, the algorithm has nothing to manipulate. If an AI watches every conversation, predators have nowhere to land.

Musa Hakim Jr., founder of Xaidus, in a classroom
The Founder

Musa Hakim Jr.
Co-founder · CEO & CTO

Cleveland-born. Case Western Reserve. The founder of FutureLAND — the entrepreneurship summit that brought 5,000+ attendees together and put $200K+ in front of BIPOC founders. Crain's Inno 4 Under 25. Featured in NY Post, The Atlantic, and USA Today.

Musa builds Xaidus from the place every founder of a teen-safety platform should: inside the rooms where the next generation is already learning. He teaches AI in classrooms. He convenes parents. He is the one who keeps the trust contract honest at every architecture review.

"We don't control the teen. We coach the teen."

— Musa, on the design principle that runs every screen in Xaidus.

Built
By

Operators who have moved markets.

Musa builds the product and the brand. Shafaat and Amna sit on the cap table from the founding side and run capital, strategy, and the global distribution network. Sydney leads growth.

Co-founder · CEO & CTO

Musa Hakim Jr.

Cleveland. Case Western. Founded FutureLAND — 5,000+ attendees, $200K+ to BIPOC founders. Crain's Inno 4 Under 25. Featured in NY Post, The Atlantic, USA Today.

Co-founder · Venture Partner — Investments & Strategy

Shafaat Hashmi

100+ startup engagements, 20+ scaled. Capital strategy, deal structuring, exit modeling. Multi-region operator across the US, Middle East, and South Asia.

Co-founder · Venture Partner — Community Building

Amna Razzaq

20+ years brand and operator experience. Distribution channels into the US, Middle East, and South Asia. Convener of the parent and school-system relationships behind the network.

Growth Lead

Sydney Dodson

Cal Athletics + NBA Top Shot background. Community, creator partnerships, and audience growth strategy.

Talk
To us

If you want to back this, partner, pilot, or just have a question — write to us.

Every email is read by a person. Reply target is 48 hours. We'll send the relevant materials based on who you are and what you want to do with Xaidus.

xaidus@lazymoose.co