Hold the button three seconds. Help comes from the people already around you — not from a queue on the other side of the city.
Hold the button — watch who’s already near you.
No dispatcher to reach, no address to describe. You hold; the people nearest you are already moving.
Press and hold the button for three seconds. Long enough that it can't happen by accident, short enough that it costs you nothing when it matters.
Your phone sends a short-range alert to every verified human nearby — over Bluetooth, so it works even when the towers don't.
They see your name, your distance and your direction — nearest person first. One tap: Respond. They're coming to you.
The nearest capable human reaches you in the minutes that decide everything — while the ambulance is still on its way, not instead of it.
Danger doesn't jump to a distant authority. It reaches the people closest to you, and only widens if it has to. That's the ripple.
It's the same shape as the justice system OMXUS is built on: trouble starts with the person and spreads out one ring at a time. A distant dispatcher is the last ring, not the first. When minutes are the whole game, the first ring wins.
Read the full ideaOnly a tiny fraction of Australians volunteering once a year — somewhere around 1 in 10, and honestly probably less, maybe half that — would be enough to replace the entire current triple-zero response.
We are short of a system that lets them say yes.
The whole argument, made playable. Slide up the share of neighbours who’ve simply said yes — and see how fast the nearest one can already reach you.
Illustrative model — nearest-responder distance from responder density (dense-urban ≈1,600 verified adults/km²), ~1.4 m/s on foot plus ~55 s to notice and move, capped at the ~12-minute baseline. It makes the shape of the argument visible; it is not a service guarantee.
France makes helping a person in danger an obligation — assistance à personne en danger. Walking past can be a crime, not just a shame.
The call of duty young people pour into a game — rescuing no one real — is the exact instinct this turns loose on their actual street.
The alert travels phone-to-phone over Bluetooth. No signal bars, no server, no permission needed to help a neighbour.
"When my daughter needed help, I waited twelve minutes for an ambulance — and I would bet anything there was a nurse within five hundred metres of me the whole time. This exists so no parent ever waits those twelve minutes again." — Tia, founder
Survival odds drop sharply after about four minutes without help. The nearest person is almost always closer than the system that's meant to reach you.
Be one of them, or help build the system that lets them say yes. Add your email — we'll bring you in.