Smart Alerts for Parents
Contextual, timely prompts that call out safety risks across a range of leading messaging and social media platforms.
Like Anti-virus for social media, Joey enables parents to understand their child's digital world, keeping parents informed about serious risks. From bullying and harassment to strangers, money requests, or unsafe language, Smart Alerts notify you in plain language so you can act early.
Worried about stranger danger? See Risky Contacts.
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What Smart Alerts Detect
Signals, Not Surveillance
Joey provides automated insights to parents across seven priority areas of online safety and well-being. Each Smart Alert arrives with enough context to help parents take calm, confident action.
Suspicious contacts
Flags unknown numbers, sudden contact churn, and outreach patterns that don't feel safe.
Bullying & harassment
Surfaces repeated put-downs, intimidation, or language meant to isolate your child.
Detect hate speech, slurs and profanity in iMessage
Detects escalating language, slurs, or harmful rhetoric that signals conversations are off track.
Emotional distress
Looks for signals of anxiety, withdrawal, or self-harm language so parents can check in early.
Money & gifts
Highlights payment requests, gift-card pressure, and money drops mixed with urgency cues.
Detect your child sharing personal information (PII)
Warns when kids are asked to share addresses, passwords, location, or contact details.
Drugs & alcohol
Catches references to substance use, supply offers, or planning that needs adult guidance.
What we don't see
Not full chat logs; not live interception. Joey analyzes backup data for patterns and provides context-aware alerts without compromising your child's privacy.
How Smart Alerts Work
Joey uses intelligent algorithms to evaluate safety topics and alert you with simple, color-coded flags that guide your conversations.
On-device backup analysis
Joey analyzes message patterns from secure device backups using advanced AI to identify concerning language patterns.
Risk classification
AI categorizes potential concerning behaviors by severity and context to reduce false positives and focus on real concerns.
Parent alert with context
Receive contextual alerts with just enough information to understand and respond appropriately.
Kids know Joey is there; parents choose when/how to review. We believe in transparency and building trust through open communication rather than secret surveillance.
Keep Coaching Conversations Going
Pair Smart Alerts with in-depth guides from our parenting library so you always have language, scripts, and next steps ready when an alert fires.
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