🛡️ Now in Private Beta

Protecting Play.
Empowering Parents.

Quest Guardian protects kids from online predators in gaming — without turning parents into spies. Decentralised AI that never sends your child's data to the cloud.

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End-to-End
Encrypted by Default
Zero Cloud
AI Processing
Parent Holds Keys
Server Cannot Decrypt
Multi-Stage AI
Predator Detection
Building protection for 🎮 Roblox 💬 Discord ⛏️ Minecraft 🕹️ Steam Chat + more planned
Why This Matters

Gaming is where predators find children today

Gaming platforms create environments of false intimacy — teammates become "friends," then confidants, then something worse. Traditional parental controls weren't built for this.

1 in 3
boys ages 9–12 reported an online sexual interaction in 2024
Thorn Youth Perspectives, 2024
518,720
online enticement reports in just the first half of 2025 — up 77% from 2024
NCMEC CyberTipline, H1 2025
36+
teen suicides linked to financial sextortion since 2021
NCMEC, 2024
9 in 10
children in developed countries play online games
UNICEF, 2025

Content filters block explicit material. Parental controls limit screen time. Platform moderation reacts after reports. None of them detect a predator building trust with your child over weeks. That's what Quest Guardian is built for.

Want to see how predators actually operate inside Roblox and Minecraft? Ethical hacker and child safety advocate Ryan Montgomery documents it firsthand.

How It Works

Here's what happens when your child plays online

Four steps between your child's game and you getting an alert. Every step is encrypted, decentralised, and designed so our servers never see your child's data.

01
🛡️
Shield Watches the Game Chat
Quest Guardian Shield sits quietly on your child's computer and keeps an eye on gaming communications — chat messages, screenshots, voice-to-text. You don't need to configure anything per game.
02
⚡
Most Activity Never Leaves the Device
A lightweight AI on your child's computer filters out 60–70% of captures as clearly safe right there on the device. Normal gaming chat with friends? It stays on their machine. Only the stuff that needs a closer look goes further.
03
🔐
Your Data Splits into Two Locked Paths
Here's the privacy trick: the actual content gets encrypted with your personal key — only you can ever read it. Separately, anonymised safety signals (not real messages) go to the AI for threat detection. The AI never sees what your child actually said.
04
🔔
You Get a Clear Alert — Not a Panic Button
If something's wrong, you get a real-time alert in Quest Guardian Home. Not a cryptic notification — a plain-language explanation of what happened, how serious it is, and what you should do next.
See What Parents See

Your Dashboard. Your Data. Your Control.

This is what Quest Guardian Home actually looks like — clear alerts, device status at a glance, and zero noise.

app.questguardian.tech
Devices Online
3 / 4
Alerts Today
1
All-Time Threats Blocked
12
Warning Roblox
Suspicious Contact Pattern Detected
Repeated private messaging from an unknown adult account over 3 sessions
Today, 3:42 PM Review Evidence →
Alex's Gaming PC
Online
Shield Active Last capture: 2 min ago 3 sessions today
Monitored Apps
🎮 Roblox 💬 Discord ⛏️ Minecraft
See It In Action

Quest Guardian Shield

A lightweight desktop app that runs quietly on your child's computer. Pair it with your account in seconds — no technical setup required.

Quest Guardian Shield pairing screen — enter a 6-digit code to connect

Enter the pairing code from your dashboard to connect Shield to your account.

Quest Guardian Shield active — monitoring Roblox, Minecraft, and Discord

Shield monitors gaming platforms automatically. Parents see alerts in real time.

Privacy Architecture

We literally cannot read your child's data

This isn't a pinky promise — it's how the system is built. Other tools route your child's messages through their cloud. We can't do that even if we wanted to.

🔑
Parent-Held Encryption Keys
Your encryption keys are created on your device and stay there. The private key never leaves your control. Our server? It stores data it physically cannot decrypt. Even if someone broke into our database, they'd find nothing readable.
🌐
Two-Path Architecture
Your child's actual messages and the AI safety analysis are kept completely separate — by design, not by policy. The evidence is encrypted for your eyes only. The AI only ever sees anonymised safety signals. Never raw messages. Never screenshots.
🚫
No Cloud Fallback — Ever
This isn't a marketing claim — it's baked into the code. There are no cloud provider SDKs in our codebase, no secret fallback paths. If decentralised capacity is full, jobs wait in line. They never get quietly rerouted to a corporate server.
🔄
Encrypted Key Backup with Recovery
Lost your phone or laptop? Don't panic. Your keys are backed up and encrypted with a personal recovery passphrase you choose. Even the backup is unreadable without that passphrase — including to us.
/* Two-path data flow */

Child's Device (Shield)
│ captures gaming comms
│ splits into two paths:

├─ PATH 1: Evidence
│  raw content → encrypted with
│  parent's RSA-4096 public key
│  → stored as opaque blob
│  → only parent can decrypt

└─ PATH 2: Safety
  derived signals (not raw content)
  → Ratio1 AI Network
  → threat classification only
  → never sees actual messages

Our Server
│ stores: encrypted evidence
│ sees: nothing readable
│ routes: alert metadata only
▼
Quest Guardian Home
│ decrypts with private key
│ parent sees: full evidence

// Evidence and AI classification are
// cryptographically separated.
Features

Built for where your kids actually spend their time

Your child isn't browsing websites — they're in Roblox lobbies, Minecraft servers, and Discord voice chats. That's where we watch. Traditional parental controls don't even look there.

🎯
Predator Pattern Detection
Our AI learns what real threats look like — grooming patterns, not playground insults. It spots escalation tactics, isolation attempts, sextortion, personal info fishing, and when someone tries to move your child to a private platform.
👁️
Image & Screenshot Analysis
Predators don't just use words — they send images too. A separate AI checks screenshots and images shared in-game for inappropriate visual content. Text-only filters miss this entirely.
⚡
Real-Time Alerts with Context
You'll hear from us only when something matters — not every time your kid says a bad word. When we do alert you, you get a plain-language explanation of what happened, why it matters, and exactly what to do next.
📱
Multi-Platform Protection
Kids don't stick to one game — and neither do predators. Shield monitors across popular gaming platforms, with more games and chat services being added all the time.
👨‍👩‍👧
Co-Parent Access
Separated or co-parenting? Both parents get their own access to alerts and evidence — securely, with their own keys. No shared passwords, no awkward account sharing.
📊
Evidence Preservation
Every piece of evidence is locked with your personal key — we can't read it, nobody can but you. It's stored with timestamps and chain-of-custody metadata, so if you ever need to go to the police, it holds up.
Our Approach

We won't cry wolf. When we alert you, it matters.

Most parental controls flag swearing, screen time, and gaming violence — and you learn to ignore them. That's dangerous. Quest Guardian is built around confidence, not concern: we only watch for the things that actually put children in danger.

What we detect

🔴 Grooming patterns & escalation 🔴 Explicit sexual content sent to children 🔴 Sextortion & blackmail attempts 🟡 Personal information requests 🟡 Platform migration attempts 🟡 Isolation tactics & secrecy language 🟡 Age-inappropriate contact patterns 🟠 Financial exploitation attempts

What we intentionally skip

— Profanity & swearing — Gaming violence — Screen time & gaming hours — Your child's own behavior — Peer bullying & drama — Age-appropriate teen relationships

This is a feature, not a limitation. Fewer false alarms means every alert matters.

Protection that grows with your child

Quest Guardian adapts automatically as children age — because a 7-year-old and a 15-year-old need different levels of oversight.

Under 10 Full protection, all platforms
10–13 Full protection, adjustable settings
13–15 Selective platforms, growing autonomy
16+ Trust Mode — critical threats only, teen notified

Parents can adjust these defaults at any time. Trust Mode coming in a future release.

Designed to meet GDPR, COPPA, and EU Cyber Resilience Act requirements from the ground up — not bolted on after launch. Read our compliance documentation →

Pricing

Start free. Scale with your family.

Every tier includes the same privacy architecture. Free accounts get full protection for one child — no privacy compromises at any level. Pricing details will be announced at public beta launch.

Free
Try Quest Guardian with essential protection for one child
  • 1 child profile
  • 1 protected device
  • 1 gaming platform
  • Daily digest alerts
  • Best-effort AI queue
  • 24-hour evidence retention
  • 90-day alert history
  • Full encryption — same as paid
Free forever · Join beta →
Guardian
Full protection for most families — real-time alerts, all platforms
  • 3 child profiles
  • 5 protected devices
  • All gaming platforms
  • Real-time push alerts
  • Priority AI processing
  • 7-day evidence retention
  • 90-day alert history
  • Weekly safety reports
  • Co-parent access
Create Your Account →
Sentinel
Maximum protection for larger families and power users
  • 8 child profiles
  • 15 protected devices
  • All gaming platforms
  • Real-time push alerts
  • High-priority AI processing
  • 30-day evidence retention
  • 90-day alert history
  • Weekly + monthly reports
  • Advanced analytics
  • API access
  • Priority support
Create Your Account →
⚡ Home Node Add-On
Run AI processing on your own hardware for maximum privacy — your family's data never leaves your home network. Unlimited devices, guaranteed instant processing. Optionally contribute spare capacity to the Ratio1 network and help sustain the decentralised infrastructure that keeps Quest Guardian independent from Big Tech. Available for Guardian and Sentinel tiers.
+ Add to any paid plan
For Developers

Build on Quest Guardian

Integrate child safety detection into your platform with our REST API. Same privacy architecture, your application.

REST API — Full programmatic access to alerts, devices, child profiles, and evidence management
WebSocket Events — Real-time alert streaming with typed event payloads for instant integration
Webhook Notifications — Push alert data to your own endpoints for custom workflows and integrations
TypeScript SDK — Typed client library with Zod schema validation for type-safe integration
SBOM & Security Docs — Full software bill of materials and vulnerability disclosure policy available
// Quest Guardian API — alert retrieval
GET https://api.arcsentinel.tech/v1/alerts

// Headers
Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
Accept: application/json

// Response
{
  "alerts": [{
    "id": "clx9f...",
    "severity": "P0",
    "category": "grooming",
    "childId": "clx7a...",
    "encrypted": true,
    "createdAt": "2026-..."
  }],
  "pagination": { ... }
}

// API docs: api.arcsentinel.tech/docs
Common Questions

What parents ask us

Isn't this just another spy app? +

No — spy apps show you everything your child does. We only alert you to potential threats. Most days you'll hear nothing, because nothing bad happened. We detect predators, not your kid's conversations with friends. There's no keystroke logging, no screenshot gallery, no browsing history. Just safety alerts when they matter.

I trust my kid. Why would I need this? +

That's great — and you should trust them. This isn't about trusting your kid. It's about protecting them from sophisticated adults who manipulate children for a living. Groomers are professionals. They target the most trusting kids. Quest Guardian is a safety net, not a trust violation.

My kid will just find a way around it. +

Maybe, if they really want to. But Quest Guardian isn't about catching your kid — it's about catching predators. Even if your child disables it temporarily, you'll be alerted. And predators who try to get kids to disable protection? That's a detection signal itself. We also recommend talking to your child about why Shield is there — research shows kids who know about safety tools are more likely to report concerning contacts.

Isn't this the gaming platform's responsibility? +

Absolutely, and platforms are trying. But they have millions of users and can only react after reports. We provide an additional layer of protection in your home, specific to your child. Think of it like a home security system — the police exist, but you still lock your doors.

What happens to my child's data? +

Shield splits your child's data into two separate paths. Raw content is encrypted with your personal key and stored as evidence only you can read. Separately, anonymised safety signals — not actual messages — are analysed by the AI network for threats. Evidence is stored encrypted for 24 hours to 30 days depending on your plan, then automatically deleted. If we shut down tomorrow, there's no data to lose — that's the benefit of privacy-first architecture.

How is this different from Bark or Qustodio? +

Three key differences. First, privacy: they store your child's data on their cloud servers — we don't. Your data never sits in a corporate database. Second, focus: we're built specifically for gaming threats, not general web monitoring. Our AI understands gaming context, not just keywords. Third, detection: we use multi-stage AI that detects behavioral patterns like grooming escalation, not just flagged words.