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Guardian AI™

Digital trust at the consumer moment. Guardian AI™ applies the same assurance discipline to the seconds before a person taps a link, scans a code, answers a call, or moves money, and returns a verdict a non expert can act on.

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The consumer problem

The loss happens in the moment a person decides to act.

Consumer fraud has moved from breaking into accounts to persuading their owners. Where the person authorizes the action themselves, account security is not engaged and the transfer is often irreversible. Warning the person afterward is a customer service event, not protection.

Authorized, not breached

The victim performs the action. Controls built to stop intruders do not see it, and the funds are frequently unrecoverable.

Built over time

The harmful ask arrives after days or weeks of ordinary looking contact. Judged message by message, nothing looks wrong.

Synthetic and convincing

A familiar voice, a corporate looking page, or a code on a real sign carries authority that content alone cannot be checked against.

Who is being targeted

The harm arrives on a phone, in the hands of the people least equipped to judge it.

Mobile devices and PCs are where a coupon, a call, a message, or a chat with an AI assistant becomes a decision with money or a child’s safety attached. Three groups carry most of that exposure.

Elderly parents and grandparents
Older adults are worked patiently and politely. A coupon or prize that needs bank details to release the funds, a tech support call about a device problem, a bank or government impersonator creating urgency, an investment introduced through social media. The ask is rarely a password. It is account numbers, a gift card, or a transfer the person makes themselves.
$2.4Breported lost by US adults 60 and over in 2024, up from about $600M in 2020
$81.5Bthe upper estimate of real losses, since most fraud goes unreported
$1,650median loss for those aged 80 and over, the highest of any age group

Federal Trade Commission, Protecting Older Consumers 2024–2025, Report to Congress; FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024.

Children and teenagers
Grooming happens inside the apps children already use, across games, social platforms, and direct messages. Contact is built patiently, then turns coercive, most often as financial sextortion aimed at teenage boys. Generative tools have made the material easier to fabricate and the pressure faster to apply.
546,000+reports of online enticement in 2024, a 192% rise on 2023
~100reports of financial sextortion received per day
1,325%increase in reports involving generative AI in 2024

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, CyberTipline Data 2024 and 2024 in Numbers.

Adults of every age
Adults are defrauded through deceit rather than intrusion. Fake shops and delivery notices, invoice and payment redirects, romance and investment schemes built over weeks, and a familiar voice on a call that was never that person. The victim authorizes the payment, which is why it is so rarely recovered.
$1.03Testimated global consumer scam losses across a twelve month period
$12.5Breported US fraud losses in 2024, up 25% on 2023
4%of scam victims worldwide fully recover their money

Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Feedzai, Global State of Scams Report 2024; FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2024.

Guardian AI™ in use

Views from the Guardian AI™ household experience on mobile. Select any to open it full scale.

Protection surfaces

Where a verdict is delivered.

Coverage is described here at the level of the consumer moment. Detection methods, thresholds, and internal composition are proprietary and are covered in technical diligence under NDA.

Links

A verdict on a destination before it opens, including newly created sites and lookalike domains that reputation lists have not yet seen.

Scanned codes

Intent behind a scanned code in the physical world, where the sticker on a meter or an invoice quietly redirects a payment.

Conversations

The shape of a relationship over time rather than one message, which is how romance, investment, and impersonation schemes are recognized.

Payments

The moment before money moves to a new payee under time pressure, where the transfer cannot be recalled once it completes.

Voice and media authenticity

Whether a familiar sounding caller is what it appears to be, with a verification step the consumer can actually perform.

Household context

Elder and minor contexts handled with stricter thresholds and escalation to a designated trusted contact rather than leaving a vulnerable person to decide alone.

B2B2C

Built to be embedded in products people already carry.

Consumers do not adopt a separate safety app in the moment they need one. Guardian AI™ is designed to be delivered through the institutions already present at the moment of risk.

Device and OS

A trust capability on the handset, covering the camera, the call, the message, and the wallet as one plane rather than four disconnected warnings.

Banks and payments

An evidence backed intervention before an irreversible transfer, and a record of the warning given, which matters where reimbursement rules apply.

Carriers and platforms

Protection offered as a subscriber or member benefit, with household coverage as the upgrade path.

Insurers and employers

A loss prevention benefit attached to an existing policy or plan, where prevented loss is measurable against claims history.

Partner value

What the partner gets out of it.

Loss avoided

Fraud losses, reimbursement exposure, and the servicing cost of each incident are the direct line items assurance acts on.

Trust as a differentiator

Protection at the moment of risk is a reason to choose and stay with a device, a bank, or a carrier, and it is visible to the customer.

Warnings that are not noise

A verdict with evidence behind it, and an explicit withholding when the evidence is thin, keeps alerts credible enough to be obeyed.

Regulatory readiness

Consumer protection duties increasingly require showing what the institution did to prevent a loss. The record answers that.

Partner business cases are modeled on the partner's own loss, servicing, and churn data. We do not publish prevention rates or benchmark figures we cannot attribute.

Partnership conversations start with one surface.

Pick the moment where your customers lose the most, and we will scope a governed pilot around it.

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