--- title: Duplicate names in Straive date: 2026-06-19T16:17:32+08:00 description: I investigated email confusion at Straive by using an AI agent to find duplicate names in Darwinbox. While I’m one of five 'Anand S' entries, others like 'Ramya R' face even more identity overlap with nine identical records. tags: [straive, ai-agents] --- At Straive, there's another [Anand Subramanian](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anand-subramanian-6227471b/) who gets my emails and I get his emails. Name confusion - despite my last name being listed as "S", not "Subramanian". Day-before, we had a **double confusion**. Pallavi Gupta messaged the other Anand Subramanian who replied to a _different_ Pallavi Gupta connecting me. Like [The Comedy of Errors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FComedy%5Fof%5FErrors). Out of curiosity, I asked an AI agent to find all duplicate first + last names on Darwinbox. The agent said _I found only one exact "Anand Subramanian" in first_name / last_name, but there are 5 "Anand S" records, including likely you:_ | Name | Designation | City | | ------- | ----------------------- | --------- | | Anand S | Chief Executive Officer | Bangalore | | Anand S | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Anand S | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Anand S | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Anand S | Senior Executive | Trichy | Hello, other "Anand S" people! Welcome to the confusion. But I'm not the only one with this problem. The worst affected is "Ramya R": | Name | Designation | City | | ------- | ---------------- | ------- | | Ramya R | Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Executive | Trichy | | Ramya R | Junior Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Senior Executive | Chennai | | Ramya R | Senior Manager | Chennai | There are also 8 "Saravanan K", 8 "Suganya S", 8 "Surash S", 7 "Anh Nguyen", 7 "Huong Nguyen", 7 "Mahalakshmi S", 7 "Raja S", ... And I thought _I_ had a common name!