Trust and safety for Canadian communities
Check it before you act.
Red Sentinel checks a suspicious message, call, link or business in seconds, turns a real concern into a report someone can act on, and shows you what is happening near you.
- iPhone · Android
- Free for residents
- English and French
- Data held in Canada
The moment that matters
Most of it starts with one tap.
A text about a parcel. A call about your bank. A link from a number you do not know. The question is never whether it looks real. It is what you do in the ten seconds before you answer.
Send the message, the number, the link or the business name to Red Sentinel instead of answering it.
Lindsay reads it with you and says plainly what looks wrong and what is still unclear.
You get a next step you can act on, and the check stays in your history in case you need it later.
Red Sentinel gives guidance, not legal advice, and it is not an emergency service.
How it works
One connected system.
Four things that feed each other. What you check informs what you report, and what your area reports informs what you are warned about.
Verify
Emails, texts, calls, links and businesses, checked before you act on them.
Understand
Lindsay explains what looks risky, what stays unclear, and what to do next.
Report
Digital scams, public safety, small business, stolen vehicles and road hazards.
Stay aware
Your checks and reports in one place, and confirmed activity in your area.
The product
Built for the situations people actually face.
Not a feed and not a panic button. Four tools that answer a real question at the moment it is asked.
Verify anything that reached you
An email, a text, a phone number, a link or a business. Red Sentinel helps you pause, check, then decide, instead of reacting. Every check is kept in your history.
Lindsay, in plain language
When you do not know where to start, describe what happened. Lindsay works from your specific check and tells you what looks risky, what is still unclear and what to do next. She says when she is not sure.
Reports someone can act on
Digital scams, public safety, small business, stolen vehicles and road hazards, each with its own guided flow. The category, the place, the time and the photos arrive attached, so nobody has to phone you back for the basics.
Your area, without the noise
Confirmed reports near you in the order they matter. Your own checks, reports and saved items in one place. No strangers arguing in a comment thread.
Featured capability
A stolen vehicle, reported in minutes.
Photograph the plate and Red Sentinel reads it back to you with the colour. Add the make, the model and where you last saw it. The alert goes to the people nearby who could actually spot the car, while it is still worth spotting.
- Plate and colour read from your photo
- Photos and video attached to the report
- Make, model and detail entered by hand
- An alert to the people in your area
Reporting to Red Sentinel does not replace reporting to police or to your insurer.
Your area
What is actually happening on your street.
Ice on the sidewalk, a pothole that keeps taking wheels, a vehicle nobody recognises, a scam going around the neighbourhood. Reports from people who live where you live, reviewed before they spread.
Activity is scoped to your area, not to a national feed
Reports are checked for accuracy before they reach other people
You choose what you are notified about and how often
For organizations
Structured reports, not phone calls.
Residents already report to you by phone, by email and on social media, in whatever words they choose. Red Sentinel hands you the same reports with the category, the location, the time and the media already attached, in one queue your team can work.
Municipalities
Road hazards, ice, lighting and winter conditions arrive ready to dispatch, with the location fixed and the photo attached.
Insurance partners
Stolen vehicle reports reach the people most likely to see the car, in the hours that matter most for recovery.
Police services
Structured, timestamped community reports you can search and export, instead of a shared mailbox.
Chambers of commerce
A branded portal for your members, carrying the scams and safety issues affecting local business.
Every organization gets its own branded portal on its own address, with roles for your team.
Talk to us about a portalPrivacy
Calm, private, Canadian.
The product only works if people trust it with the thing they are worried about. That sets the rules.
Only what is needed
We collect what a check or a report requires and nothing beyond it. Your information is never sold.
Encrypted in transit
Every connection uses TLS 1.3, and access to reports is restricted by role.
Said plainly
No hidden terms. The Privacy Policy states what is kept, for how long and why.
Held in Canada
Your data stays in Canada under Canadian privacy law, including PIPEDA.
Red Sentinel is not an emergency service. If you are in immediate danger, call 911.
Start with one check.
The app is free for residents and takes a minute to set up. If you work for a city, an insurer or a police service, we can walk you through the partner side in twenty minutes.
Get in touch
Tell us what you need.
Residents, cities, insurers and police services all reach us here. We answer within two business days.
For organizations- Tell us your coverage area and the report categories that matter to you.
- We connect to the systems and the workflow your team already uses.
- A branded portal can be standing in days, not quarters.