For Universities
A privacy-first safety and documentation tool for students.
Anchor helps students stay safe, know their rights, and document threatening situations quickly. It works offline, requires no account for core use, and is designed so recordings stay encrypted to the user.
Free. Offline-first. Encrypted. English + Spanish.
Serious student incidents are not always predictable.
Built for serious moments where the record matters.
For students, the moments that matter most are often the moments with the least time to think. A threatening interaction, stalking, harassment, a dating violence situation, a volatile public incident, a housing conflict, or an encounter with law enforcement can unfold quickly. In those moments, the ability to document what happened, preserve evidence, and alert trusted people can matter.
Anchor is built for that kind of moment. One tap starts documentation. Core features work without internet. Rights guidance is available in clear language. Evidence is encrypted on the device immediately.
What students can do with Anchor
Document quickly
Start recording in seconds with a panic-first flow designed for high-stress moments.
Protect what happened
Recordings are encrypted on device, and encrypted vault backup can begin while recording when a connection is available.
Reach trusted contacts
When you send the safety alert during recording, trusted contacts receive it so someone else knows something happened.
Access rights and legal help
Students can access clear rights scripts and an offline legal help directory, including when connectivity is limited.
Relevant across a range of student support situations
Anchor is not just for one kind of incident. It is designed for high-stress situations where preserving what happened may matter later.
Harassment or stalking
When a student needs a fast, discreet way to document a threatening interaction.
Dating or relationship violence
When preserving evidence and alerting trusted people quickly may matter.
Housing or roommate conflict
When an incident escalates and the student needs a private record of what happened.
Workplace or internship issues
When a student faces intimidation, retaliation, or a threatening interaction off campus.
Public incidents or protests
When a student needs a privacy-first way to document events in real time.
Law-enforcement situations
When rights guidance, documentation, and evidence preservation matter under stress.
Designed so recordings stay encrypted to the student.
Anchor is built around privacy-by-design, not data collection.
Encrypted on device
Recordings are encrypted before they are stored. The key stays in the phone's secure storage.
We cannot decrypt recordings
By design, Anchor does not have the key needed to read a user's recordings.
No trackers or third-party analytics
Anchor is not built around surveillance, ad tech, or behavioral tracking.
No account required for core use
Students can access core functionality without adding friction during a high-stress situation.
Offline-first
Core recording, rights scripts, and legal help access are available even when connectivity is limited.
We cannot hand over what we never had.
Clear boundaries matter.
Anchor is designed for lawful self-advocacy, evidence preservation, and trusted-contact alerts. It is not designed to replace emergency response or legal counsel.
- Not legal advice. Anchor provides general information only.
- Not emergency services. In an emergency, call 911 or the appropriate campus emergency number.
- No evasion guidance. Anchor does not help users evade law enforcement or obstruct investigations.
- No public spotting or crowdsourced alerts. Sharing is private, not public.
Why universities and research centers may want to engage
Anchor is relevant to campuses not only as a student-facing resource, but also as a case study in privacy, ethics, and crisis-interface design.
Student support
A resource that may be relevant for Dean of Students offices, campus legal clinics, immigrant support, and related student-support teams.
Privacy and security
A concrete example of privacy-by-design and zero-knowledge thinking in a real-world product.
Human-centered design
A trauma-informed, panic-first interface relevant to HCI, accessibility, and crisis-response design.
Research and curriculum
A potential case study for law, public policy, human rights, HCI, ethics, and security classrooms or research conversations.
Possible ways to work together
Campus access
Discuss whether Anchor should be shared through student-support channels, legal clinics, or other campus resource hubs.
Research conversation
Explore privacy, human-rights technology, trust, or high-stress usability questions with appropriate ethics boundaries.
Curriculum and teaching
Use Anchor as a case study in privacy-by-design, zero-knowledge systems, or trauma-informed product design.
Student projects
Consider supervised work on accessibility, language support, or local legal-resource quality within Anchor's safety boundaries.
Ethics first.
Anchor is not a human-subjects research platform. We do not treat at-risk users as an experimentation surface. Any research collaboration would require a separate conversation about scope, consent, ethics review, and data-sharing boundaries.
We can discuss what we can and cannot share, including public documentation, non-PII design artifacts, and appropriate research boundaries.
Frequently asked questions
Is Anchor only for law-enforcement situations?
No. Law-enforcement situations are one use case, but not the only one. On campus, Anchor may also be relevant in other high-stress situations where documenting what happened and preserving evidence matters.
Does Anchor require an account?
No account is required for core functionality. Anchor is designed to reduce friction during high-stress moments.
Does Anchor work without internet?
Yes. Core features are designed to work offline, including recording, rights scripts, and legal help access. Encrypted backup and alert delivery depend on connectivity when available.
Can Anchor read student recordings?
No. Recordings are encrypted on the device, and Anchor is designed so the company cannot decrypt them.
Does Anchor collect analytics or tracking data?
Anchor is positioned as a privacy-first product and is not built around trackers, ads, or third-party analytics.
Can universities use Anchor for research?
Potentially, but any research conversation would need to be separate, ethically bounded, and based on explicit consent and appropriate review processes.
Is Anchor emergency response?
No. Anchor is not emergency services, and it is not a substitute for calling 911 or the appropriate campus emergency number.
Interested in bringing Anchor to your campus?
We're opening access in waves and are looking to speak with universities, student-support teams, legal clinics, and research centers that see value in privacy-first, trauma-informed documentation tools.
General information only. Not legal advice. Not emergency services.