Protective intelligence, from Switzerland

Intelligence that protects people.

Aegilo provides source-backed intelligence on travel, movement and location — before your people go, where they live and work, and while events unfold. For organisations, private clients and the advisers responsible for them.

A location degrading, or someone who needs to move? Emergency →

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The gap

Most risk information is about the world. Yours needs to be about you.

Headlines tell you a country is tense. They don't tell you:

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Whether Tuesday's route from the airport is safe.

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Whether the neighbourhood behind a property listing matches the photographs.

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When a deteriorating situation crosses the line from "watch" to "leave".

Aegilo closes that gap. We turn continuous global monitoring into local, specific, verified answers about the places your people go and the places they stay.

Two domains

Where your people go, and where they stay.

Who we work with

People with someone to protect.

FOR ORGANISATIONS

Security teams, executive offices, SMEs, law firms and NGOs.

People on the move and assets in place — and a duty of care to both. We deliver the assessments and documentation that turn that duty into evidence of diligence.

FOR PRIVATE CLIENTS & FAMILY OFFICES

Can we travel there? Should we live there? What if the situation changes?

Families face the same questions with higher stakes and less support. We answer them discreetly, and we work with the advisers families already trust — family offices, private banks, relocation and legal advisers.

Not insurers or underwriters — assessing a risk we might later be asked to price for a carrier is a conflict we'd rather not be near.

How we deliver

Four formats, in every domain.

Every deliverable shows its sources, its confidence, and its gaps. "We don't know" is a finding, not a failure.

To be plain about the boundary: Aegilo assesses, monitors and verifies. Where you need people on the ground we make introductions to vetted operational partners — we don't drive, escort, staff or run anything ourselves.

The GSOC · our live capability · BETA

Assessments tell you what we know. The GSOC tells you what's changing.

Every Aegilo engagement is backed by our Global Security Operations Centre in Switzerland — the live arm of the firm. The GSOC is in active build: today the watch is analyst-led, and early clients help define how it runs.

AEGILO GSOC · BETA

A documented watch, not "we'll keep an eye on it".

When a trigger fires, you don't get a headline. You get a call that says what changed, what it means for you, and what we recommend.

  • Continuous monitoring of the regions and routes our clients care about
  • Active journeys watched while they run
  • Pre-agreed triggers, tracked and logged
  • Every alert sourced, like everything else we hand over
How the watch is set up
Journey Watch WATCH ACTIVE

Geneva → Nairobi

Executive travel · Departure in 3 days · 4 triggers defined

Airport Access 14
Primary Route 22
Civil Activity 46
Alt. Route Status 19
Transport Nodes 26
Contingency route verified · Triggers quiet ● Proceed as planned
Illustrative journey watch
How you get an answer you can defend

We verify before you have to.

Every source checked, every conclusion argued against — the check built in, not the one you wish you'd run afterward.

01QuestionDefine the decision and the standard of evidence it deserves.
02SourcesHold the primaries — who said it, and where it surfaced.
03TriangulationIndependent sources agreeing — not one echoed seven times.
04Red-teamWe argue against our own conclusion before you see it.
05Decision logEvery judgement, its reasoning, and the ones we rejected.
What "source-backed" looks like

The provenance is the product.

Below: a sanitised extract from a route package — planning safe movement for a business trip to Baghdad. The cover verdict leads with a failure: an endpoint we could not confirm. Each line carries what was checked, how, and the honest result — including the one that didn't pass.

Every competitor shows you green checkmarks. We show you what we couldn't confirm.

The method behind it, and the thresholds it uses
AEGILO ROUTE PACKAGE · EXTRACTmeridian · baghdad · 2026-06
Q: Plan movement — airport → hotel → business site, 15–19 Jun.
▸ COVER VERDICT: DOES NOT PASS — endpoint unconfirmed (Dora gate)
ENDPOINT · business site (destination)
"Which gate admits visitors is unknown."
recon:none — generic pin sits deep inside the perimeter
verdict:NOT CONFIRMED — gate assignment needs host confirmation / ground recon
ARRIVAL · airport curb
"Arrivals curb, civil terminal — not the aerodrome centroid."
recon:map recon · gate + barrier visible; ground-confirm on arrival
verdict:CONFIRMED
ROUTE · primary vs alternate
"An alternate that shares the primary's river crossing is not an alternate."
check:shared-choke fraction measured per route
verdict:RETAINED — alternate is independent
Why Aegilo

What you can hold us to.

SOURCE-BACKED, ALWAYSEvery claim in every deliverable traces to a source you can inspect. Confidence is scored; gaps are declared.
LOCAL ANSWERS FROM GLOBAL WATCHOur global monitoring exists to serve one purpose: making the local assessment — this route, this property, this week — accurate.
SWISS GROUND TRUTHBased in Switzerland, we verify locations in person where it matters — something no generic international risk report can offer.
THE SECOND ARROWOur namesake, the archer Egil, prepared a second arrow before his famous shot. Every assessment includes the contingency: the alternative route, the exit option, the trigger that changes the plan.
WE WERE OUR OWN FIRST CLIENT

Aegilo exists because acting early worked.

Acting on knowledge rather than headlines got our founder's family out of Ukraine safely, while others paid crisis prices for late exits. That experience defines the standard: intelligence is only useful if it arrives in time to act.

The account in full
  • Watch the indicators, not the headlines
  • Agree the trigger before the decision gets expensive
  • Move, don't negotiate — and have the second option ready
How your data is held

You're telling us where your family lives.
Nobody else gets to read it.

Most firms treat this as a legal appendix. For an intelligence firm it's part of the product: the question you asked us is itself confidential, before any answer exists.

SWISS STORAGE Your material sits in Switzerland. Stored with a Swiss provider under Swiss jurisdiction. US hyperscalers were excluded for storing client material on purpose.
KEYS HELD APART The people holding the data can't read it. Your material is encrypted under a key belonging to you alone, and that key lives in a different control domain from the storage.
ERASURE IS ONE ACT Deletion that actually reaches the backups. Erasure destroys your key, which renders every copy unreadable at once — archives included. Deleting rows can't promise that honestly.
How your data is held — in full
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The same delta discipline we run on client subjects, pointed at the world's ten loudest situations: what entered the watchlist, what left, and what's been quietly persistent. Sourced, attributed, no forecasts.

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Ready when you are

Somewhere, someone you're responsible for is about to travel, move or commit to a location.

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Tell us the decision. We'll tell you what it means.

A journey, an address, a move, a situation that's changing. Describe it in your own terms — working out the real question is the first thing we do anyway.

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