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About the Founder

Built by someone who lived it.

Kevin Romero spent years with a credit score under 500. He knows what it feels like to be the one getting told no. So when he figured out how to fix his own credit, he built a company to do the same thing for everyone else.

Riverside, CA Founded 2020 Family-run
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Kevin Romero
Founder & CEO
They told him no for years. So he taught himself how to hear yes.
Kevin Romero pointing toward the camera at his desk in his Riverside office Chapter I · Origin
I.The warehouse years

Born in SoCal. Built in lockdown.

Kevin grew up in Southern California and spent the years after high school in warehouse jobs. The kind that pay this week's bills but never quite move you forward. He was good at the work. He just couldn't see where it led.

Then March 2020 happened. The hours dried up overnight. Lockdown stretched from weeks into months. Like millions of other people, he was suddenly home with no real income and a stack of bills that didn't care.

What he had on top of all that was a credit score that had been sitting under 500 for years. The kind of score that quietly decides which apartments will rent to you, which cars will finance, and which doors stay closed before you even knock.

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I started this for the people who keep getting told no. They're still who I work for.
Kevin Romero Founder & CEO
Kevin Romero with arms raised in celebration in his office Chapter II · Reps
II.From sub-500 to a phone that wouldn't stop ringing

He fixed his own first. Then everyone asked him to fix theirs.

Kevin didn't take a course. He couldn't afford one. He read everything he could find about how credit reporting actually worked, and he kept reading until he understood the legal mechanics of it. Then he started disputing items on his own report.

The score moved. So he kept going.

Once friends noticed, they started asking him to look at their reports too. He posted a few short videos on social media explaining what he'd learned. The phone started ringing. By the time the lockdown lifted, what started as a side project had become a real company with real members and real removals across all three bureaus.

That company is Online Credit Repair. Five years later, it's still growing for the same reason it started: most credit repair companies send the same recycled letters that bureaus auto-dismiss. Kevin built the firm around Metro 2 compliance, the actual data-reporting standard furnishers are legally required to follow. It's a different fight, and it works.

What runs through the work

Faith. Family. And the people who keep getting told no.

The four things that don't change here, no matter how big the company gets.

Faith-led, openly.

Kevin doesn't preach it, and he doesn't hide it. His faith shapes how the team treats every member's file, every phone call, and every hard conversation. It's the reason "we'll figure it out" is a real promise here, not a sales line.

Family on the floor.

Kevin's father and brother work alongside him every day. He's also happily married. When you call Online Credit Repair, you're talking to people whose last name is on the line, not a call-center script.

Lived experience first.

Kevin spent years carrying a sub-500 score. He didn't read about being told no; he was told no, repeatedly. That's why this team understands what's actually riding on every removal, and never treats a member's score like a number on a screen.

Built to leave a mark.

The goal was never to be the biggest company in the country. It's to leave a real impact: on every member who walks in, on the team's own families, and on the community Kevin came from. One approval at a time.

III.Why he keeps showing up

Approvals are the point. Not the metric.

The people who walk through Kevin's door aren't looking for a higher number on a screen. They want the house their kids can grow up in. The truck that doesn't strand them on the way to work. The funding that finally turns a side hustle into a real business.

That's what every dispute, every removal, every cycle is actually for. Kevin and the team treat it that way because they remember what it felt like to be on the other side of the desk. The score is a tool. The approval is the win. The life that opens up after is the whole point.

If you're reading this and you've been told no more times than you want to count, you're who this was built for. Always have been.

Kevin Romero seated at his desk with hands folded, in a calm portrait
Riverside, CA

Kevin Romero, in his office.

The short version

A timeline.

Pre-2020

Warehouse shifts and a credit score under 500.

Kevin spent years after high school in warehouse jobs across SoCal, carrying a credit file that quietly closed doors at every turn.

March 2020

Income disappears overnight. He starts reading.

COVID lockdown wipes out his hours. With nowhere to be, he starts learning everything he can about how credit reporting actually works, then begins disputing his own report.

2020

His own score moves. Friends ask him to fix theirs.

He posts a few videos on social media. The phone starts ringing. By the end of the lockdown, the side project has a name: Online Credit Repair.

2021–2024

Metro 2 becomes the foundation.

Kevin builds the firm around Metro 2 compliance, the technical reporting standard most companies don't bother with. Members start seeing first-cycle removals where other companies had spent eight months on zero.

Today

Family-run. Faith-led. Members in 49 states.

Kevin still leads the company day-to-day from Riverside, alongside his father and brother. The mission is unchanged: stop the people who keep getting told no from getting told no.

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"Approved."
The word we work for