Meet the Finalist: Community Wolf’s co-founder, Nick Mills, whose business uses technology, data, and collaboration to address personal and community safety concerns across South Africa.
Using information on crime and safety in community group chats and forums, Community Wolf creates structured analyses and insights to identify patterns, improve response time and help safety teams become more proactive.
Learn more about Nick and Community Wolf on https://t.co/mQ6kUc77lh
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There is a weather API.
A payments API.
A maps API.
There has never been one for physical safety.
So every team built it themselves or made do with stale public crime data.
SIA changes that.
SIA is the Safety Intelligence API.
One call returns a safety score for a location, the breakdown behind it, and the context around it.
We own the data layer. You query it.
Community Wolf isn't building the maps.
We're building the intelligence layer maps, apps and platforms ride on.
Free for communities.
Foundational for everyone. →
Insurance is, at its core, a pricing problem.
You charge for the risk you can see.
The risk you can't see, you average, and someone always pays too much while someone else pays too little.
None of those reflect what's happening this week.
Real-time, hex-level, contributor-rich safety data does.
The data layer to do this exists. It's live. There's an API in front of it.
The same engine that lets a security operator score their estate lets a logistics platform reroute around a corridor that's been hot all week.
You don't need to be a security company to get value out of safety data.
Every logistics route in SA is a risk decision.
JHB CBD to Roodepoort at 3am ≠ 11am.
Materially different, different hijacking incidence, different no-go zones, different escalation patterns.
Most fleet platforms can't see any of that.
SIA changes the inputs.
Send a route. Get back a per-segment risk profile; colour-coded, hex-level, time-aware.
Friday afternoon highway trip and Tuesday-night last-mile delivery.
The model knows the difference.