Custos reads any scene — parking lot, entrance, perimeter — tells an ordinary person from a real threat, and alerts your people in seconds. On your own cameras. No facial recognition.
Nothing leaves your building. · Sees threats, not faces.
In development · long-gun early warning on the outer perimeter →Custos treats your whole site 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 people you protect.
Parking, approaches, and the property line — the earliest warning that someone’s headed somewhere they shouldn’t be.
Every door covered, with live in-and-out occupancy so you always know who’s inside.
People as they move through the space — and anyone heading against the flow toward a restricted area.
A buffer around the space that matters most, armed on a schedule and watched after hours.
Honest about coverage: a small 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.
The threat people fear most arrives in the open — someone crossing the parking lot with a long gun, seconds before the entrance. Custos is being trained to catch exactly that moment on the outer perimeter, and hand your people the seconds that matter.
Focused on a visible long gun in the parking lot and approach — where a threat is seen first, and where seconds count most.
The AI flags; a trained human reviews the clip and confirms before anything escalates. Never an automated dispatch, never a black-box alarm — that’s what keeps a false alarm from becoming a false lockdown.
Runs on your own cameras, footage never leaves the building, and it identifies a weapon — never a person. No biometrics, no cloud.
We run this on our own property today and improve it against real footage before it ever protects your people. We’ll say it plainly: this is an assistive early-warning layer that makes your people faster — not a guarantee. When lives are the stakes, honest beats hype.
Custos is Latin for guardian — the one who keeps watch. It brings intelligent monitoring to every part of your site, 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 people as they gather and move through the space, and catch anyone heading somewhere they shouldn’t.
A buffer around the space that matters most flags anyone who crosses it when they shouldn’t.
Arms on a schedule. The moment someone enters a protected space 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 a protected zone.
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 most sites can’t realistically collect. Custos sidesteps all of it: it reads presence and posture, never identity. Nothing to consent to, nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena.
The same engine protects a house of worship, a store and its parking lot, or a vacant building — tuned to each, without rebuilding your security from scratch.
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.
Every traditional layer answers one crude question — did something cross a line? None can tell you what it is, where it’s going, or whether it’s a threat. Custos does, on one always-on camera — and beats each of them at its own job.
Beams, motion sensors, and DVRs are each a single dumb signal. Custos replaces the whole stack with one always-on camera that sees what’s happening and decides whether it matters — from the property line inward, during open hours and after. Fewer devices, fewer false alarms, and an answer instead of an alert.
Facial recognition drags every other system into a legal minefield — written consent, per-person lawsuits, a 50-state patchwork. Custos reads presence and posture instead, so it protects your people without ever collecting a face. Same protection. None of the liability.
…and it doesn’t matter for Custos: it collects no biometric identifier, so it needs no consent, no notice, and no policy — in or any other state.
Because Custos never builds a faceprint, it never creates the “biometric identifier” these laws regulate — so it stays clear of every tier above, in all 50 states, with nothing for anyone to sign and no policy to maintain.
Compliant in all 50 statesThe same detection — weapon, intrusion, and approach grading — tuned to what each place actually needs.
Perimeter to protected zone, during services and after hours. Weapon early-warning on the approach, and a live occupancy count inside. FEMA NSGP grant-eligible — we ship a free application toolkit to help you win the award.
The danger that reaches a store or drive-thru arrives in the open. Custos watches the lot and the entrance for a weapon and alerts staff in seconds. Worker and customer safety — not shopper surveillance: no facial recognition, no theft watchlist.
For empty buildings and lots, cheap cameras report to a central brain that runs the detection — event-triggered, so you’re alerted to an intrusion instead of paying to watch nothing. Nothing valuable to steal on-site but a camera.
Same engine underneath: weapon & intrusion detection, zone grading, human-verified alerts, on-prem, no facial recognition. What changes per environment is the camera layout, the zones, and where the processing lives — not the core.
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 worship 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 runs on Veridian Nexum’s on-site AI platform — the same engine behind our detection, alerting, and access-control tools. Protective technology engineered for the places people gather, work, and leave unwatched. Private, self-hosted, and under your control by design.
Visit Veridian Nexum →The same principle across every deployment: on your hardware, on your property, blind to faces. We build assistive early-warning that makes your people faster — and we’re honest about what it does and doesn’t do yet. When lives are the stakes, honest beats hype.
How we talk about the threat layer →Open the live demo, or request a walkthrough for your site — worship, retail, or vacant property.
hello@custosview.com · veridiannexum.com