See It. Report It. End It.
Sentinel puts a credible reporting channel in the hands of the public and pushes verified alerts back out to the people close enough to act. It is the sensor layer of the Arc Light network — the part that reaches where no agency budget can.
Alerts are delivered to devices within a defined radius of an incident rather than broadcast to an entire user base. A BOLO reaches the neighborhood that can act on it while it still matters, instead of becoming noise three states away.
Sixteen report categories — from missing persons and human trafficking to unexploded ordnance, cyber threats, and environmental hazards — each with its own capture fields, so a report arrives as usable structured data rather than free text.
Photo and video capture is bound to the report at the moment it is taken, with location recorded at capture time. That coupling is what makes a citizen report defensible enough for an investigator to act on.
Missing persons cases are cross-referenced against national records and amplified across the local network, turning a static database entry into an active search in the area that matters.
Enough of the architecture to judge whether we know what we are doing — not enough to hand someone a blueprint.
Native clients — SwiftUI on iOS, Kotlin on Android — handle capture, permission flows, and location acquisition. Reports are queued locally so a submission survives poor connectivity in the field and syncs when the device recovers.
Incoming reports pass through a multi-factor veracity assessment that weighs community corroboration, cross-references against authoritative third-party feeds, and accounts for submitter history. Confidence travels with the report rather than being decided once at intake.
Verified incidents are matched against the geospatial index of subscribed devices and dispatched through platform push infrastructure. Targeting happens server-side so the client never needs the full incident set to know what concerns it.
Every accepted report enriches Sleuth Net and the analytics layer, so field observations compound into pattern detection instead of terminating at a single alert.
Sentinel draws on authoritative external feeds alongside our own network, so community reporting is corroborated rather than taken on faith.