Argus Advance assesses every stop of a trip — the threat picture, the way in and out, the nearest trauma care, and the venue itself — and answers your team's questions in plain language, on the device they actually carry. The same assessment is available in the operations center.
A protective advance today is hours of scattered legwork — pulling crime data, mapping routes, locating trauma centers, vetting venues, and cross-checking a dozen feeds. Every one of those hours is an agent buried in paperwork instead of in the field. Argus Advance replaces that fragmented research with a single assessment any team member can open, trust, and act on — on the ground and in the operations center alike.
Argus Advance is not a replacement for your team — it is time and attention given back to it. The tool carries the research and assessment layer so the advance starts as close to the finish line as possible, not from the starting line.
Threat & situational picture, routes, medical readiness, venue assessment, live feeds, and a trip-specific assistant — assembled before the advance arrives.
On-site confirmation, liaison and relationships, and the judgment and physical protection of the subject. Argus Advance informs it; it never replaces it.
Each capability area produces a concrete deliverable your team can brief and act on.
Threat assessment for any location — hot zones and elevated-risk areas — plus the situational picture: protests, encampments, and nuisance or high-danger areas. A crime report adds incident counts and types, trend versus baseline, a crime index, and pattern analysis, each zone backed by source-cited evidence.
Ingress and egress for each leg — primary, alternate, emergency extraction, and routes to avoid — with the ability to regenerate or roll back alternates as conditions change, and trace any route on the map.
Access and drop-off, covered approach, egress and shelter-in-place, power and medical, parking and loading — plus entry points, fire systems, evacuation routes, media staging and access limits near the principal, and an "inside view" of published imagery to see a site in advance.
Nearest trauma care for every stop — Level 1 and Level 2 trauma centers, hospitals, and clinics — each in-scope health site run through its own assessment focused on the entrance and approach a detail would use to reach the ED or ICU, with an aerial view to check nearby structures for line of sight, paired with police, fire, and EMS response times and pre-staged response plans.
Assessments draw on multiple live sources — federal alerts, open-source intelligence, a law-enforcement signal, an estimated dark-web signal, social-media chatter, news, and geofenced events — with clickable citations back to the source.
Once a trip is built, Argus Advance keeps watching open-source intelligence across every stop — tracking chatter, incidents, and events against the itinerary and surfacing alerts as the picture changes, so a shift in conditions reaches the team before arrival, not after.
Building a principal and trip profile tunes what the tool watches for — keyword identifiers bound to the unique locations and timing of each stop — so monitoring is scoped to that principal, at that place, at that point in time. It works with the detail's own pseudonyms, so the profile stays effective while the principal's identity stays protected.
Drop in an itinerary and Argus Advance builds the stops and runs the assessment automatically, or add stops by hand. A pre-walk checklist guides the advance venue by venue, and a plain-language assistant answers the questions teams actually ask — "what's the egress at the hotel?", "nearest Level-1 trauma?" — grounded in the specific trip.
Argus Advance is built so the sensitive details of who is protected, where they are going, and what was assessed stay protected end to end.
Every session is credential-gated, and access is issued and revoked centrally — there is no shared password to leak. Per-trip governance by a team lead is rolling out on this foundation.
Trip records — the people, the movement details, and the point-in-time assessment — are encrypted where they are stored, and identifying details are minimized.
Privileged credentials stay on the secure server so the team works from the field device while the platform's secrets never ship to it — with privacy-preserving handling and a continuously self-checking process.
Deployment and pricing are scoped per engagement. Request a briefing and FedScience IO will walk your team through a live assessment and the options that fit your operation.