Custos surveys your whole campus. It reads the scene, distinguishes a worshipper from a threat, and alerts your people in seconds.
Nothing leaves your building. · FEMA grant-eligible.
Custos treats your campus as concentric rings of protection — each one earlier warning than the last — so a threat is deterred, detected, denied, and delayed long before it reaches the altar.
Parking, approaches, and the property line — the first place to see someone who shouldn't be there.
Every door covered, with live in-and-out occupancy so you always know who's inside.
The congregation as it gathers — and anyone moving against the flow toward a restricted area.
A protected buffer around the altar, armed on a schedule and watched after hours.
Honest about coverage: the six-camera core covers your full interior and every entrance out of the box. Perimeter is a layer you scale outward by adding exterior cameras — the same detection, the same alerts, wider reach.
Custos is Latin for guardian — the one who keeps watch. It brings intelligent monitoring to every part of your campus, telling ordinary movement apart from a real threat.
Exterior cameras watch approaches and the property line, with the same detection and alerts as inside.
Every door covered, with a live in-and-out occupancy count for the whole building.
See the congregation as it gathers and moves, and catch anyone heading somewhere they shouldn't.
A buffer around the stage and altar flags anyone who crosses it during services.
Arms on a schedule. The moment someone enters the sanctuary after hours, your phone knows.
Per-person codes, a silent duress code, and a full log — no biometrics, nothing to breach.
Sub-second alerts to staff phones and radios, with the clip attached.
Everything runs in the building, in milliseconds. Your footage never leaves the property.
The demo shows the boxes turn green, amber, and red as people approach the altar.
Open the demoNot a patchwork of cameras and apps — a single layered system with one place to watch it and one place the alerts go.
Facial recognition means capturing biometric data — exactly what laws like Illinois's BIPA and Texas's CUBI regulate, requiring written, individual consent no congregation can realistically collect. Custos sidesteps all of it: it reads presence and posture, never identity. Nothing to consent to, nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena.
Houses of worship are a priority for FEMA's Nonprofit Security Grant Program — and we ship a free toolkit to help you actually win the award.
Runs on standard IP cameras and an on-site box. You're never locked out of your own system, and open standards keep you in charge.
Arm the altar zone on a schedule. The instant someone enters after closing, staff and volunteers are alerted — with the clip.
When someone approaches the stage or a restricted area mid-service, greeters and ushers get a quiet, immediate notice.
The same system watches the parish office, classrooms, and daycare entrances through the week, not just on Sunday.
The days that draw the largest gatherings are the ones that need the most eyes. Add cameras and coverage scales with you.
One platform across many parishes, with consistent alerts and reporting that a facilities or risk director can actually manage.
Per-person PIN entry with a silent duress code and a full log — so you know who armed, disarmed, and entered, without biometrics.
Standard IP cameras — or your existing ones — feed an on-site AI box. Nothing is uploaded to a cloud you don't control.
Custos grades who's where — clear, approaching, or inside a protected zone — and decides what actually deserves an alert, filtering the noise.
Phones, radios, and a live dashboard. Sub-second, with the clip, to exactly the people who should respond.
Houses of worship are a priority for FEMA's Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP). Custos was built to qualify, and every deployment ships with a free application toolkit so a first-time applicant can put together a competitive package.
Included free: applicant guide · Investment Justification draft · capability spec + procurement worksheet
Talk to us about funding →Custos is a VORDR product — protective technology engineered for the places people gather. VORDR brings the security discipline; Custos brings it to the sanctuary.
Visit VORDR →Under the hood, Custos runs on Veridian Nexum's on-site AI platform — the same engine behind its detection, alerting, and access-control tools. Private, self-hosted, and under your control by design.
Visit Veridian Nexum →Open the live demo, or request a walkthrough and a tailored NSGP funding plan for your site.
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