Meet the founders behind LockedIn.
Brian Ohebshalom and Noah Fakheri spent two years of high school in Los Angeles handing their phones to a pouch every morning. In their senior year they built the system they wished their school had. They graduated in 2026 and now build LockedIn full time.
It started as a class assignment.
At the start of their senior year, an entrepreneurship class gave Brian and Noah a familiar assignment: find a problem you face every day, and build a solution. They didn’t have to look far.
Every morning, their classmates handed their phones over to a pouch, and every day some of them got around it, with a dummy phone in the pouch or a magnet to pop the lock. Teachers were left policing it, period after period.
They had watched every attempt from the inside, so they built the opposite of a pouch. The phone stays in the student’s pocket, locks when they arrive on campus during school hours, and unlocks after the last bell.
They’ve been friends since second grade and have run small businesses together since they were kids. LockedIn is the one they now do full time.
“When lock pouches proved tough to manage, two Los Angeles high school students decided to build a solution themselves.”
What they built.
The system they wished their school had, shaped by every workaround they watched classmates try.
The phone does the locking
When a student arrives on campus during school hours, the apps the school blocks lock (at most schools on their own; at Guided Access schools the student locks in with a triple-click), and they unlock after the last bell. No pouches, no lockers, nothing for staff to hand out.Families can always call
Students can always call home or 911. At most schools the Phone app is never locked; at schools that use Guided Access or screen pinning, a student can step out of LockedIn at any time, and the dean sees that they did. Everyday messages go through the front office, the way they always have.Deans see the workarounds
One dashboard shows who has deleted the app, faked their location or signed in on a second phone, with the student’s name on it.Every phone helps in an emergency
One tap unlocks every phone on campus, and each student can answer “I’m safe” or “I need help”.
Before you trust us with your students.
What a board, a reporter or a parent usually asks about us first, answered plainly.
Who runs it
Brian Ohebshalom and Noah Fakheri, the co-founders. They graduated from high school in 2026 and work on LockedIn full time.The company
LockedIn Technologies, LLC, based in Los Angeles. The technology is patent pending.Student data
During school hours LockedIn checks two things: is the phone on campus, and is it locked. It never collects texts, calls, photos, browsing or which apps a student opens, and activity records are deleted after 90 days.Security
LockedIn’s web application and API have had independent penetration testing. SOC 2 Type II attestation is in progress; LockedIn is not yet attested.What we hold ourselves to
We would rather lose a deal than our character, so we don’t oversell. Our values, and the ethics behind them, are written down.Who has covered us
KTLA 5, EverythingLubbock and Entrepreneur Asia Pacific have reported on LockedIn and its founders.How to reach us
Email hello@lockedinapp.co. Journalists, the press kit has a photo and a paragraph about us.