Child exploitation today often begins long before a crime is visible. It starts quietly in digital spaces—gaming platforms, social communities, and online environments where young people connect every day.

Zero Wake exists to detect those early warning signs and act before harm escalates.

Through the development of SONAR (System for Online Network Activity Risk), we analyze behavioral signals and patterns that can indicate grooming or predatory activity across digital environments. The goal is simple: surface risks earlier so investigators and safety organizations can intervene sooner.

But detection is only one piece of the chain.

Zero Wake also supports professional training, investigative collaboration, and operational support for organizations working to combat exploitation. Our work is designed to strengthen prevention, support interdiction efforts, and help connect the dots between the digital signals and the real-world actions required to protect victims.

The team behind Zero Wake brings decades of combined experience across law enforcement collaboration, search and rescue operations, anti-trafficking initiatives, intelligence analysis, OSINT research, digital platform development, and AAA gaming environments. That experience allows us to understand both the digital communities where threats emerge and the operational environments required to stop them.

"We are not the whole solution, but we aim to be a critical link in the chain that helps threats get detected earlier and victims protected sooner."