Self-assessment
Are you bugged?
Nobody can answer that from a website, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. What this does is sort the ordinary worry from the genuine indicators. Twelve questions, under two minutes, nothing stored and nothing sent — it runs entirely in your own browser.
Before you do anything else
- Do not discuss your concerns, or this assessment, inside the area you are worried about. If a device is present, that conversation is the most useful thing it will ever hear.
- Do not search for the device yourself. Untrained searching moves things, destroys evidence, and warns whoever is listening.
- Do not use a suspect telephone to call us. Borrow one, or use a landline you trust.
- If you do find something, photograph it exactly where it is and leave it there until you have spoken to us or to an attorney.
Information
Has private information become known to someone who had no legitimate way of learning it?
A competitor who knew your figure. A relative who repeated something said only at home. This is the single strongest indicator there is.
Context
The five questions we ask every business, before anything else.
These came off our own intake form long before they went on a website. If the answer to any of them is no, the building is exposed — not necessarily bugged, but exposed.
Do you know the names of your cleaning staff?
Not the contract company — the actual people who come in after everyone leaves. Cleaning access is the most commonly exploited route into a commercial building, because it is unsupervised, out of hours, and in every room.
Who reads your key-card logs?
Most organisations have an access system. Very few have anyone whose job it is to look at what it records. A log nobody reads is a receipt, not a control.
Are visitors and contractors escorted?
A signature in a book at reception is not screening. The question is whether someone stays with them, and whether anyone would challenge an unfamiliar person in a corridor holding a clipboard.
Is your conference room secured between meetings?
The room where the numbers get said out loud is usually the room that is unlocked all day, used by anyone, and never inspected. It is the highest-value target in most buildings and the least protected.
Do you have cameras, and do they cover the approaches?
Not the car park — the corridors and doors into the rooms that matter, with retention long enough to be useful weeks later when you finally have a reason to look.
And the one nobody likes: who left badly?
Departures explain a striking share of what we find. Someone who left angry, and who had keys, codes and knowledge of the building, is a more realistic threat than a professional adversary.
Straight talk
Most of the time, we find nothing. That is the point.
We want to be plain about this, because a great deal of marketing in this industry works by leaving the opposite impression. The majority of sweeps we perform find no device.
That is not a wasted engagement. The people who call us are usually carrying a question they cannot put down — one that is affecting how they sleep, how they talk in their own home, and what they are willing to say in their own board room. A documented, competent inspection that finds nothing lets them put that question down.
And when we do find something, it is almost never the device the client imagined. It is a monitoring app on a telephone, a tracker on a car, a smart speaker configured to share, a conferencing system that was never switched out of always-on. Ordinary, cheap and entirely effective.
Talk it through with us.
No charge, no obligation, and no pressure toward a sweep you do not need. Please call from a telephone and a location you are confident about.