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QR sign-up pages now carry your brand, and anyone who signs up during a live alert is enrolled, texted, and added to the roster automatically.

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August 20264 min read

August 2026

The people you most need to reach aren't in your staff directory.

Contractors on site for a week. Stallholders at a market. Volunteers, visiting crews, the venue next door. When something happens, these are exactly the people you need to reach, and exactly the people who were never onboarded into anything. A QR code on a poster fixes that: scan it, enter a name and a mobile number, and you're on the alert list. Done.

Those sign-up pages can now look like yours. Brand templates put your logo, your accent colour, your organisation name, and your own consent wording on the page, in a light or dark theme, so the poster at the gate and the page it opens both belong to your event, not to us. Keep one template per venue or per campaign and attach it to each link as you create it.

We have also closed a long-standing gap in this flow. Alert recipients used to be fixed at the moment an alert went out, so the person who scanned the poster two minutes into an evacuation joined a list, heard nothing, and was invisible to the very incident they were standing in. Not any more. Join a targeted list during a live alert and you are enrolled, sent the same alert text as everyone else, and placed on the accountability roster with your own response link, automatically and within moments.

One QR code, printed once, now covers the whole story: routine updates on a normal day, and a lifeline on the worst one.

From poster to protected.

What a sign-up link does before, during, and after an incident.

A Poster, Not a Process

One QR code takes people straight to your sign-up page
Name and mobile number is the whole form
No app to install, no account to create

Your Brand, Not Ours

Your logo, your accent colour, light or dark
Your organisation name and your own headline
Your consent wording and footer, because you are the data controller

Reusable Brand Templates

Keep one preset per venue, event, or campaign
Attach a template to each sign-up link as you create it
Unbranded links keep working exactly as before

Straight Onto Your Lists

Each link enrols people onto the recipient lists you choose
The same lists drive alerts and campaigns: build once, use everywhere
Opt-out works the way people expect it to

Mid-Alert Enrolment

Signing up during a live alert is no longer too late
Late joiners receive the same alert text everyone else received
Enrolment to first text in moments, automatically

On the Roster Like Everyone Else

Late joiners appear on the accountability roster immediately
They get their own response link, map presence, and updates
Nobody standing in your incident is invisible to it

The alert went out two minutes ago.
They can still be on it.

Fast, With a Brake

Instant for one person. Deliberate for a thousand.

Automatically texting people during a live emergency is a feature that has to know its own limits. The common case, one person scanning a poster or an admin adding a single contractor, is instant, because during an evacuation it has to be. A bulk import mid-alert is a different act with a different failure mode, so past a threshold you set, whoot. stops enrolling and asks an operator to confirm instead. The wrong list picked in a hurry stays a near-miss, not a headline.

Individual sign-ups are enrolled and texted instantly, so the common case stays fast
Large bulk additions during a live alert pause for operator approval instead
So a mis-picked list can never become thousands of accidental emergency texts
A per-workspace switch turns mid-alert enrolment off entirely if you prefer
Sign-up pages carry your own consent text, because the audience is yours
Every enrolment is logged, so the post-incident record stays complete
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Reporting a problem now takes a voice message and photos, not just a text box. Speak into the page and the recording is transcribed, summarised for the operator triaging it, and dropped into the room your team is already listening to. The same controls appear on the incident response page mid-alert.

Record up to 110 seconds straight from the browser, with no app and no account
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The people who see it first don't work for you.

A public reporting page behind the same QR code your sign-up links already use. Anyone can report a chained fire exit, a broken barrier, or behaviour that worries them. You write the questions, and every report lands in a triage queue where your team sets priority and owner.

Public reporting on the page your QR codes already open, with no app and no account
You author the question set: categories, location, and anything else you need asked
Reports arrive in a triage queue with priority, owner, status, and a full activity trail
Priority is set by your team, never by the reporter, so the queue sorts by risk
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