🛡 Safety check-in

This is the ONLY place safety is configured — everywhere else links here.

Check in

Tap how long you expect to be, then the big button. If you don't check out in time, the ladder below starts climbing — one quiet step at a time. Everything is SMS — no email, ever.

🕵️ Client screening (optional — same deal: held while live, deleted on safe check-out, handed over ONLY if things escalate)

🧭 Your safety setup — pick your mode

Two honest ways to run this. You can change your mind any time.

⏱ Your ladder timings (minutes between steps — staged, not dramatic)

Defaults are sensible; edit any of them. The system checks every ~5 minutes.

Heads-up BEFORE your deadline ("X min left — your word, or +30") · 0 = off Quiet grace AFTER the deadline before anything buzzes (jobs run over) "Time's up" buzz → 2nd "are you okay?" 2nd ask → your safety contact is texted Contact texted → the Elevate step (full mode only) Elevate step → contact again (address released) Contact again → Elevate HQ alert

These buffers exist so a booking running over never triggers a false alarm — long enough that busy is just busy, short enough to stay genuinely safe. Mid-booking you can always push the deadline out: reply +30 to any check-in text, or tap Extend on the booking.

🚨 The release acknowledgement — read this one properly

Being straight with you first: Elevate is not an emergency service and cannot contact police for you — in Australia no app or service can (000 only takes real voice calls from a person). What IS guaranteed: if you use the full ladder and it escalates, everything you supplied is packaged and released to the people who are alerted, ready to hand to police themselves.

The acknowledgement (ticking it IS switching full-ladder safety on)
If I stay silent through every step of the ladder, Elevate releases the info I supplied (address · client screening · deposit screenshot · location drops) to my nominated contact and Elevate's responder, packaged for police — with plain instructions to call 000 or 131 444 themselves and hand it all over — and once it's escalating, I can't necessarily stop it.
There is no OFF for this release. It isn't a preference — if Elevate holds information that could find you and you're missing, it goes to the people looking for you; withholding it is not something Elevate will ever do, and the law backs disclosure to prevent a serious threat to life (any fallout from a missed check-out — a fine, police involvement, an embarrassed client — sits with you, not Elevate; that's in the terms). Don't want Elevate holding anything at all? Choose contact-only mode above — nothing is held, so nothing exists to release. Using safety at all is optional; this release, inside the full ladder, is not.

And whichever way you tick, saving this accepts one more thing, in plain words:
“If my check-in escalates, my last known location and my check-in note will be sent to my emergency contact, and to Elevate, even if I have chosen not to share them normally. I understand this and I want this.”

Turning this on means accepting the safety feature terms (what's held, when it's deleted, and what's released if you can't be reached). You'll be asked to confirm when you save.

📱 Phone discipline — this only works if a text can reach you:
· Use your MAIN phone with notifications NOT silenced — missing the check-in text is exactly what starts the escalation. The "never miss an alert" wizard below sets it up once.
· Ideally carry a backup phone (or make sure your second number below is a phone that rings) in case one dies mid-booking.
· Understand: once escalation fires and you can't be reached, your contact and Elevate's responder get everything you supplied — and with your tick ON it's packaged for them to hand straight to police.

What happens if you go quiet — the ladder

Eight plain steps. It never skips ahead, and any reply from you stops it instantly.

  1. You check in with an expected duration (the button above).
  2. Time's up: your phone buzzes — a quick "all good?"
  3. +~10 minutes (yours to tune above): another text — "are you okay?"
  4. No response: your safety contact gets YOUR exact words (set below) — and you're told they've been contacted.
  5. Still nothing: "Hi, it's Elevate, checking everything's okay." This step is serious — it means it is contacting Elevate HQ (the brand Elevate), which will alert Elevate team members that something may be going on with you. It is a real escalation, not a passive step.
  6. No response: your contact is texted again — and if you gave an address, it's released to them now so you can be found.
  7. Elevate HQ is alerted — your held info (address · screening · deposit screenshot · location drops) lands in the escalation panel, ready. If it stays unactioned (~1 hour, adjustable below), the system escalates BY ITSELF — it never sits waiting for a human to wake up.
  8. Only if your tick below is ON: after that process, if we still can't reach you, everything you supplied goes to your contact and Elevate's responder in one package, marked for police — with plain instructions to call 000 or 131 444 themselves, quote the reference number, and hand it all over. Elevate cannot call police for you — a real person makes that call, armed with everything they need.

Texts are signed with your bot's name — "Elevate" appears only from step 5. All of it is SMS.

And it moves FAST on purpose. There is no mandatory 24-hour wait to raise the alarm about a missing person — police say report immediately when you fear for someone's safety; the first hours are the ones that matter. The exact timing windows are set conservatively and are being confirmed with a lawyer before go-live.

🧭 Contact-only mode (pick it at the top) stops the ladder at step 6: your contact gets your own preset words, and Elevate is never involved, holds nothing, and steps 7–8 never happen. Because nothing is held, nothing can be released — your address, screening and deposit screenshot are not stored at all in this mode, so they cannot be sent to your contact either. If you want them held so they CAN reach the person looking for you, that is the full ladder. This works Australia-wide: it's a life-safety feature, plain and simple.

👥 My safety contacts

Your people, with YOUR labels ("mum", "my manager"). Each is verified once — Elevate sends them the one-time briefing, you confirm they received it, and verified stays verified forever. Switch who's active any time; more than one can be active at once.

🤫 Your contacts hear NOTHING when you check in — no booking, no address, nothing. They only ever hear from Elevate if a check-in isn't closed properly.

Your safety setup

This is YOUR back end — nothing here is ever shown to clients.

👥 Contacts now live in the list above — this old single-contact box still works until you've added one there.

Which alerts go to which phone

Both ON = the alert reaches both phones. The second column only matters once a second phone is saved.

Phone 1Phone 2 📅 Online booking 🔔 Qualified lead 🛡 Safety "are you okay?" 🔕 Sleep-mode nudges ⭐ VIP messages ⚠ Bot/AI problems
🕶 Coded alerts — your own words (optional)

Write what each alert should SAY on your phone — e.g. disguise it as your "boss" or "consulting team" so a glance never outs you. Leave empty = the normal wording.

🔑 My check-out words

No app, no data, no login — a single word in a text to your bot number is enough. A wrong word never checks you out — the check-in keeps running and the reply says so.

🕶 Duress word — tap to reveal (kept off-screen on purpose)

Looks identical to anyone watching — same "checked out ✓" reply — but silently keeps help coming. Never write it down next to the other one, and never say it out loud as "my duress word".

Make sure a real alert can never miss you

A phone on silent, in Do-Not-Disturb, or "optimising battery" can swallow the very text this page exists for. A real girl in trouble can't miss this text — so walk these steps once, tick each one, and the meter tells you when you're actually protected.

✅ All steps ticked — a real alert can reach you now, even on silent.