A privacy-first family safety platform for consent-based live location sharing, trusted circles, contextual chat, emergency contacts, and real-time SOS alerts—designed to support connection without turning safety into surveillance.
Families and close groups need a fast way to coordinate and ask for help, but many location products can feel like permanent one-way monitoring. Switching between maps, messages, calls, and emergency contacts also slows communication when context matters most.
Current state: A person shares location in one app → explains the situation in another chat → calls contacts individually if risk increases → recipients lack a single, current view of who needs help and where.
Target state: User joins a trusted circle by invite → explicitly enables sharing → circle sees the same live map and contextual chat → user raises SOS from the mobile device → the platform broadcasts the event and sends push alerts → authorised moderators can monitor active SOS events.
Scope rule: Browser sharing works only while the tab is open and clearly states that limitation. Raising an SOS remains mobile-only because the phone is the device expected to be present during an emergency.
| Category | Requirement |
|---|---|
| Privacy | Location is shared only with authorised relationships and stops when the user withdraws consent. |
| Security | User and administrator identities use separate authentication boundaries; role checks are enforced server-side. |
| Performance | Live map, chat, and SOS events propagate to connected recipients with minimal real-time delay. |
| Reliability | Queued notification jobs retry safely and do not create duplicate SOS records. |
| Transparency | The product clearly communicates sharing state, browser limitations, alert recipients, and the limits of the service. |
| Scalability | Location queries use geospatial indexing and realtime fan-out is separated from persistent storage. |
As a circle member who feels unsafe, I want to send one SOS with my latest location, so that trusted people are informed immediately without me contacting each person separately.
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