Sponsorship

Help keep SENTINEL free.

SENTINEL is free for every Australian to use. Running it costs real money — hosting, geocoding, data ingestion, and the editorial time to keep historical event records accurate. We fund the operation through sponsorship and modest display advertising. This page exists so partners can find us and so users can see exactly what we will and won't accept.

For aligned partners

We work directly with a small set of partners whose products and services help Australians prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural hazards. Direct partnerships are how we'd rather monetise. They pay better, they look better, and they don't require us to hand the front page to a programmatic ad network.

Good fits:

• Insurers (home, contents, flood, business)
• Building inspection and weatherproofing services
• Smoke alarm and home safety equipment
• Solar, battery, and resilience suppliers
• Building products with bushfire or flood ratings (BAL, FloodSafe)
• Sandbagging and emergency supply businesses (seasonal)
• Community resilience and preparedness training

If your offering fits and you'd like to talk, email partners@sentinel.example.

What we won't accept

SENTINEL declines:

• Gambling, lotteries, or speculative trading products
• Payday lending or high-interest consumer credit
• "Get rich quick" schemes of any kind
• Political party or candidate advertising
• Anti-vaccine or other public-health-undermining content
• Cryptocurrency speculation
• Any product that materially worsens the risk our users are checking

If you see an ad on SENTINEL that breaches this list, tell us. We'll investigate within one business day and either tighten the filters or drop the network.

Email alerts (coming soon)

The most-requested feature: an email when conditions change for an address you've checked. Severe weather warning issued for your suburb. New fire incident within 10 km of your house. Road closure on your route to work.

We're building this for v1.1. No password, no profile — just an email and the address(es) you want to track. Unsubscribe link in every email.

If you'd like to be told when this launches, email alerts@sentinel.example (one-line email; we'll add you to a notify list).

Paid features for individuals

A modest paid tier is in development for users who want:

• No advertising
• Save addresses and named areas of interest
• Build personal events with multiple AOIs (e.g. property + workplace + family members)
• Upload your own shapefile or GeoJSON layers and view them on the map
• Export PDF or DOCX summaries

Pricing will be in the $3–$7/month range. The goal is to fund the free tier, not extract value. The free tier will always be free.

For organisations

Councils, utilities, large employers, education providers, insurers, and anyone running their own emergency operations work who'd benefit from SENTINEL — talk to us. Enterprise-grade features (custom data overlays, shared events between staff, live AVL/GPS ingestion, SSO, full audit trail, on-premise option) are planned for v2. Early-access conversations open now: enterprise@sentinel.example.