About

A financial smoke alarm for gambling.

GuardRail exists so that small problems do not become big ones. It is not a blocker, not a diagnosis, and not a way to watch someone. It is one person who chose to share, and one person who chose to care, looking at the same honest picture of the money.

Mission

Catch gambling in the spending before it becomes a crisis, and start the conversation while it is still a small one. Every feature answers one question: does this help two people see clearly and talk early?

Vision

Every young person with a first bank account has someone who can see the gambling the moment it starts, by their own choice, with nothing hidden and nothing added. The same idea, later, for every kind of spending that quietly gets out of hand.

Who it is for

Parents of young adults, spouses, sponsors, and friends. Campus programs and clinics who want a tool that respects the member. And the member, who installs it, connects their own bank, and decides who sees what.

“I do not want it to be helicopter parenting. I want it to be a financial smoke alarm. This all came from making sure small problems do not become big ones.”
Simon Capps, co-founder

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The member connects, the member invites.Nobody can enroll someone else. Nothing is shared until the member says yes, and they can pause or end it on a delay they set.
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Nothing hidden, nothing added.The partner sees exactly the screen the member sees. No dossier, no extra alerts, no reading between the lines.
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Surfaced, never accused.A peer payment or a cash withdrawal is shown as worth a look, not as a bet. Confirmed means a named gambling merchant, and only that.
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Not a diagnosis.The concern level is an activity reading with its reasons shown. It never claims more certainty than the data supports, and it says what it does not know.
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Gambling in moderation is not the enemy.The product is built for the moment it stops being moderate, and for catching that moment early.
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Help is one tap away.The national helpline, 1-800-MY-RESET, is on every screen where it matters, for the member and for the partner.

Simon's story.This part is Simon's to tell, in his own words. It goes here the day he writes it.