Advance survey
Baseline and re-survey capture with change detection that outputs a ranked inspection list. A human inspects every item, so a false flag costs minutes, not trust.
In development · Launching 2027
AI-driven protective intelligence
Where to look first.
Where to look now.
Vestigium Security is building AI-assisted video tools for executive protection teams. An advance survey flags what has changed at a site since your baseline. Portable real-time overwatch cues your team to a person on a rooftop or in an elevated position. A human confirms every alert.
The gap
Cameras that record are not cameras that warn.
Protective teams already walk a site before a visit. What they rarely get is a fast, systematic answer to two questions: what changed since the advance, and is anyone in a position with a line of sight right now?
- Line of sight matters. The DHS Independent Review Panel on the July 2024 Butler attempt called for site plans that identify and mitigate line-of-sight threats at outdoor events.
- Video is mostly used after the fact. A 2026 independent review of a campus event shooting found its cameras worked better as an investigative resource than as real-time situational awareness, and recommended analytics that detect people on rooftops or in restricted areas.
- Advance hours are limited. A ranked list of where to look first lets a small team spend its time on the positions that matter most.
How it works
Built around the advance
The working design follows how protective details already do advance work: capture a baseline, re-survey, compare, then watch.
Baseline capture
About two weeks out, cameras and a drone pass capture the site. Rooftops and windows that can see the stage, route or arrival point are ranked by line of sight.
Re-survey
The day before or the day of the event, repeat the same capture positions and paths, ideally at a similar time of day.
Change detection
New roof objects, newly opened windows, new or moved vehicles, ladders and unattended items, weighted by exposure to the protectee.
Inspection list
Ranked cards with before/after images and location. An advance agent confirms, dismisses or assigns each one.
Live overwatch
During the event, the same kit watches high-exposure zones for a person on a roof or in a window and alerts a human operator.
What's being built
One core, two modes first
Vestigium is in development. The first two modes share one portable edge-AI kit and one alert console; later options are planned, not built.
Live overwatch
A portable kit of mast cameras, optional thermal and an edge computer, cueing operators to people in elevated or high-exposure positions in real time.
Existing-camera analytics
Rooftop and restricted-zone analytics on a venue's or campus's own cameras, as a software-only option.
Aerial view, via partners
A drone view feeding the same core, through partner airframes rather than in-house drone development.
Who it's for
Teams that protect people in public
Executive protection firms
The first focus: a "where to look first" list that saves advance hours, offered as a survey service or a kit the team runs itself.
Venue & event security
Outdoor events, speakers and concerts, where rooftops and lines of sight are the open question.
Campus public safety
University safety teams, served with facial recognition left out, in line with Utah's limits on government use.
Design principles
People decide. Software points.
Surveillance tools carry real privacy and liability obligations. Vestigium is being designed with them in view from the start, and is honest about what the technology can and can't do.
- A human confirms every alert. Each alert shows the image and a confidence level and needs a person to acknowledge it. Nothing happens automatically.
- Rank, don't alarm. Findings are ordered by line-of-sight exposure so the team isn't buried in noise from HVAC units, birds and open windows.
- No facial recognition by default. It detects people and objects, not who someone is, with biometric laws such as Illinois BIPA and Texas CUBI in mind. Audio is off by default.
- Honest about range. Spotting a weapon at long distance is unreliable, so the system flags a person in a high-exposure position first and never claims weapon certainty.
- Clean hardware. Cameras and components chosen to avoid covered foreign telecom and video equipment, and U.S.-made or other non-covered drones.
About the founder
James Murdock
Vestigium Security was founded by James Murdock, an electrical and computer engineer with systems experience across the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. He is a service-disabled veteran.
Vestigium applies that engineering background to protective work: tools that help a team see a site the way an adversary might, while keeping people, not software, in charge of every decision.
- Electrical & computer engineer
- DoD & IC systems
- Veteran-owned
Contact
Launching 2027
Vestigium Security is in development and launches in 2027. If you lead an executive protection, event security or campus safety team and would like to hear when it's ready, or talk about how you do advance work today, send a note.
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