Protecting a family's lifetime savings from land encroachment, one plot at a time
Sharing what we're building at ShieldNex and why it matters, in case anyone here is working on adjacent problems.In India, a large share of household wealth sits in a single plot of land. For farmers, small business owners, and especially NRIs living abroad, that plot is often the outcome of decades of savings. It is also wide open to slow, quiet encroachment — a boundary wall creeping over, a shed going up on a corner, a track cut through a field. The owner usually finds out long after the change is on the ground, and the legal fight that follows can drag on for years. Families lose the land, the money, or both.We built ShieldNex to close that gap.Every plot is monitored on a fixed cadence using trusted satellite imagery. Our AI change-detection engine compares images over time and flags new construction, boundary shifts, and land-use changes. The owner gets an alert within 72 hours of a detected change, along with a geo-referenced evidence pack designed to stand up as an electronic r