Pager replacement, search grid, MREW casualty card.
Volunteer call-out cascade with live ETA roster, NFC-style 200m search grid, digital compass with declination correction, full MREW CasMed handover to HEMS.
- <30sPager-to-acknowledge median
- 100%Casualty cards captured digitally
- £15kAvoided pager hardware per team
UK Mountain Rescue runs on volunteer pagers and Excel rotas. We replace SARCALL with a real-time call-out cascade, the casualty card with an MREW-format ABCDE form that exports to HEMS, and the OS map with a digital compass that gives true bearings to the casualty on your phone.
The pain points your existing stack misses.
- SARCALL pagers cost £400+ each and lose battery on day three
- Controller has no live view of who is attending and ETA to base
- Casualty cards on weatherproof paper soaked and illegible
- HEMS gets handover by garbled radio instead of structured data
- No way to push a coordinate to a specific rescuer's phone
- Multi-day operations losing comms when pager batteries die out
Built specifically for mountain rescue / sar.
Pager-replacement call-out cascade
Push fires to whole team; live attending/declined roster with ETA per member.
Search-grid assignment
200m grid squares with sweep status, paired-team assignment, sweep timeline.
MREW casualty card
ABCDE primary survey + GCS/AVPU + vitals trend + treatment + ATMIST handover PDF.
Digital compass
Magnetometer + UK declination → true bearings to casualty, RV, LZ and buddy.
Coordinate push to rescuer
Controller fires a coordinate; assigned rescuer's phone shows live bearing + distance.
Multi-agency feed
HEMS / Coastguard / Police mountain unit positions on one operations dashboard.
The platform underneath the Rescue pack.
Sector packs add the workflow; this is the operational layer every customer gets regardless of vertical — billing, comms, AI dispatch and trust signals.
Multi-channel SOS cascade
Push + SMS + WhatsApp + voice fan-out in parallel. AI re-ranks responders by distance + role + rationale before dispatch.
AI Virtual Watcher
Three Claude-powered flows: SOS narrative + mandatory ack, PPE/cert gap detection, proactive welfare pings.
Comms allowance + bundles
Monthly SMS / WhatsApp / voice quotas included. Overage auto-bills; pre-buy bundles for cheaper rates. SOS always sends.
Admin broadcasts + inbox
One-to-many alerts to any worker subset, ack-tracked for regulator evidence. Per-worker channel prefs respected.
Trust + verify panel
At-a-glance integrations status and a dry-run test SOS so you can prove the dispatch before betting a real shift on it.
Audit ledger (HMAC-signed)
Every action stamped to ID + timestamp + UUID. Regulator-ready PDF export with one click.
Stripe billing + Customer Portal
Per-active-worker pricing. 14-day trial, no card up-front. Self-serve plan changes and bundle top-ups.
REST + Webhook API
Push incidents into ServiceNow / RIDDOR-to-HR / SIEM (Splunk, Datadog, Elastic). GraphQL on Enterprise.
Your workers lose signal. Their safety net doesn't.
Out on site, in the cab, deep in a valley — mountain rescue / sar teams hit blackspots exactly where an incident is most likely. An SOS still counts with no signal: it's saved on the phone with its last location and fired automatically the moment coverage returns, timestamped for the audit ledger. And where the phone has Emergency SOS via satellite, Vygard points the worker straight into it. No £200 messenger to issue, charge or remember — it's the phone every worker already carries.
How off-grid coverage worksBlackspot-proof store-and-forward
SOS raised with no signal is saved with its timestamp and last GPS fix, then delivered the instant a bar returns — logged to the audit ledger, nothing lost.
Satellite, built into the phone
Newer iPhones and Androids include Emergency SOS via satellite. With no signal, Vygard surfaces it at the critical moment — no extra hardware, no second network.
Pair a communicator — optional
Truly remote crews can pair a Garmin inReach or similar. Optional — for most workers the phone is already the safety net.
- MREW
- MROSI
- HM Coastguard
- JESIP
Create your account, invite your team, they sign in.
Vygard is one app for every industry — workers don't sign themselves up. You create the account, add your people, and they download Vygard and sign in with their phone number.
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Create your account
Set up your organisation online in a couple of minutes — free 14-day trial, no card.
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Invite your team
Add your workers from the dashboard. Their Vygard Rescue service pack is picked at first login.
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They download & sign in
Workers install Vygard and sign in with their phone number — nothing to configure.
Download Vygard — the Rescue pack is built in.
Scan to install on the worker's phone. They sign in and pick Mountain Rescue / SAR; the Vygard Rescue pack loads automatically.
See the Rescue pack on your own data.
Try the live demo or book a 30-minute call. We'll show you the workflow your team would actually use.