01 · UNKNOWN
Unknown sender mails your parent.
Someone your mom has never corresponded with sends her email. Glance sees it before she does.
M
Marcus Lee
Kitchen estimate — deposit
For friends and familyBe a Companion.
Be a Companion.
It's always free.
Someone you love was just protected by Glance. Here's how you help — in 9 seconds, by text message, costing nothing.
What a Companion doesFour things happen.
Four things happen.
You do one of them.
No app. No password. No inbox to monitor. Just a text, now and then, when someone you love hears from a stranger.
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02 · SUMMARY
Glance summarizes it in one line.
Envelope and metadata only — never the body. "A person. Asking for a deposit. Domain registered 14 months ago."
Glance summaryA person asking for a kitchen-deposit payment. Domain registered 14 months ago. No history with Mom.
03 · REPLY
You get a text. Reply Y or N.
A plain SMS from Glance, not an app notification. Y approves the sender forever; N blocks them forever.
Glance · Unknown sender wrote to Mom: "Marcus Lee — kitchen deposit." Safe? Reply Y or N.
Y
04 · STICK
Your verdict sticks forever.
Marcus is now a known sender. Future mail from him walks straight through. You won't be asked about him again.
Marcus · always safeNext check · when it matters
Transparency · what you won't see
Reassurance comes from what's omitted.
Being a Companion is not being a reader. You are not looking over anyone's shoulder. These are the things you will never have access to — by architecture, not by policy.
| The body of the email | Never. |
| Attachments | Never. |
| Other senders to this inbox | Never. |
| Your protected person's reply history | Never. |
From CompanionsTwo people who
Two people who
stood at the door.
"I drive my mom twenty minutes every Sunday. I'm already there. Now I'm also her shield. That's worth nine seconds of my Tuesday."
Priya · daughter of Maya · Cleveland, OH
"The first time Glance asked me, I thought it was the scam. Then I realized it was the real thing. Now it's the most relaxing text I get."
Daniel · son of Maya · Boston, MA
Why we make this freeKindness shouldn't
Kindness shouldn't
be a subscription.
We don't sell kindness.
A cost-free security detail is a more honest business model. If we charged you to protect someone you love, we'd be betting against the thing that's already true: you would do it anyway. You'd drive the twenty minutes. You'd answer the 2 a.m. call. You'd read the suspicious email over their shoulder if you could.
Subscriptions should buy features — priority routing, audit logs, multiple seats, family-wide dashboards. Subscriptions should not buy kindness, and they shouldn't gate it, either. We decided that on day one and we wrote it into our pricing page as a commitment.
The person you're protecting pays. You don't. You never will.
Voices from the families who told us this was real
The language of the people who asked us to build this.
Verbatim phrases from r/AgingParents and r/Scams. We did not write these. We read them for two years and built the product those sentences describe.
“She believes every email from “PayPal” is real.”
r/Scams
“How do I lock down my dad’s email without him feeling like I’m treating him like a child?”
r/AgingParents
“It’s a full-time job protecting my parents from the internet.”
r/AgingParents
“I wish I could be the bouncer for his email.”
r/AgingParents
“They drained his retirement account through a fake crypto link.”
r/Scams
“I just want peace of mind knowing her inbox is safe.”
r/AgingParents
Our Promise
What we never do — even when it would help us.
A Companion sees less than you'd expect, and that's intentional. Here is what stays off-limits, in plain language.
We never sell, rent, or broker your personal data.
We never see, store, or transmit your passwords.
We never train generative AI models on your private conversations.
We never connect directly to your bank accounts.
We don't use manipulative dark patterns to trap you in subscriptions.
We never read your text messages, emails, or personal communications.
We don't force you into expensive, confusing tiers for basic security.
We never share your location data with third-party advertisers.
We don't require you to call a retention agent to cancel your account.
We never deploy updates that secretly change your privacy settings by default.
We don't track your browsing history across other applications.
We don't hide our operational terms in confusing legal jargon.
FAQFive real questions
Five real questions
from real Companions.
What if I'm wrong about an email?
Every verdict is reversible. If you blocked the plumber by mistake, the person you're protecting sees a "Let them through again?" prompt on their side the next time that sender tries. You can also text REVERT at any time and we'll walk back your last decision — no guilt, no fuss.
What if I don't respond fast enough?
Nothing bad. The message sits in quarantine — not in their inbox — until you reply, or until a backup Companion (if there is one) answers first. Your parent never sees an unanswered request as a missing email. If no one ever replies, the message expires into the spam folder after seven days.
Can I see more context?
Reply "MORE" to the original text. We send back the sender's domain, the domain's age, DMARC and DKIM status, and our one-line machine summary. We still don't send you the body — that remains with the person you're protecting, in their encrypted envelope. If you need the body, ask them directly.
How do I stop being a Companion?
Text STOP at any time. Your role ends immediately; pending questions route to the backup Companion or, if there isn't one, back to the person you were protecting. We tell them you've stepped back — transparency is part of the trust model, so no one is quietly left undefended.
Can I be a Companion for more than one person?
Yes. Many Companions cover a parent and a grandparent, or both parents, or a parent and an elder neighbor. Each person's trust graph stays separate — rules don't bleed across households — but the incoming texts route to the same phone number. You can also add a backup Companion per person, so you're never the only line of defense.
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