A way to call for help from your phone without anyone seeing you do it. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you the day it goes live.
You park under the light instead of the closer space, you leave before dark or you don't go at all, and you stay on the phone with someone until you're through the gate. None of it feels like fear. It feels like being sensible, and it quietly costs you something every day.
Then comes the walk where the arithmetic runs out: footsteps keeping time with yours, and nothing has actually happened yet. You just know.
The trouble is that doing anything about it means stopping, finding your phone, deciding who to call, and then saying where you are out loud in front of whoever is behind you. So you keep walking instead, and hope you're imagining it.
A pattern on the volume buttons — up, down, up, down — with the phone still in your pocket. Or the SOS widget on your home screen.
No sound, no flashing screen. You feel it in your hand, and that's the only place it happens. Whoever is behind you never learns you called for help.
Your location, your name, your photo and live audio reach responders. The people you trust are told in the same second, by text and a phone call.
You can start it from your watch, without reaching into a bag or unlocking anything — your phone does the rest from wherever it's sitting.
This exists because my sister asked for it. She's a criminal attorney here, and years ago, she went through one of these cases herself. She told me that even now, when she travels alone, there are times she feels frightened, with no easy way to reach anyone. When Stay Alert launched years ago, with a panic button that could reach the police, she called it heaven-sent. But then it quietly disappeared. In 2024, she asked me if I could build an app that did what Stay Alert had done, but for the realities of today.
So we built more than a panic button. Family Circle gives you a live map of the people you care about, so you can see where they are when it matters. Geofences can be triggered not just by distance, but by time — so you can be alerted if someone hasn't arrived somewhere when they should have. Widgets put your most important actions one tap away, and you can trigger an alert directly from a Wear OS watch, with Apple Watch to follow. Underneath it all, the system is designed to keep working when conditions aren't perfect, including falling back to SMS when data won't go through.
And my sister wasn't the only person who noticed that Stay Alert was gone. In 2024, a former National Security Minister publicly called for its return. The need never disappeared. What was missing was something built to last.
We never sell it. Not to advertisers, not to anyone.
We keep no history. We show where someone is now, never everywhere they've been.
Nobody outside your circle can see your family.
None of this makes the street safer. What it changes is the arithmetic — the late shift, the class that ends after dark, the trip you'd rather not make alone.
AegisProtect Personal Safety launches early 2027. Occasional updates, and one email the day it goes live. Unsubscribe any time.