When we talk about what Sentinel Watch is trying to do, we could describe it as a security monitoring platform. That would be accurate, but incomplete. The more complete description is this: Sentinel Watch is a nonprofit platform that uses the economics of retail security to create meaningful income for people in developing economies. And that mission places us squarely inside six of the United Nations’ seventeen Sustainable Development Goals — not as a marketing alignment, but as a structural reality of how the platform works.
SDG 1 — No Poverty
Three billion people earn less than $6 a day. Sentinel Watch is designed with that number as its benchmark. Active watchers on the platform are expected to comfortably exceed that threshold — through their own effort, using a smartphone they already own, without leaving their community. This is not aid. It is income, generated through a commercial transaction. Read more about SDG 1 →
SDG 8 — Decent Work and Economic Growth
No shifts. No commute. No interview. No minimum qualification. Sentinel Watch creates flexible, dignified paid work for anyone with a smartphone — on their schedule, in their location, at the same rate regardless of nationality or gender. The marketplace structure protects watcher earning power by making camera owners compete for attention, not the other way around. Read more about SDG 8 →
SDG 9 — Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
The platform runs on WebRTC peer-to-peer video — keeping infrastructure costs minimal and bandwidth requirements low enough to work in regions with limited connectivity. Every new user receives a Coinbase embedded wallet automatically at registration, creating financial infrastructure for people who have never had access to it. Read more about SDG 9 →
SDG 10 — Reduced Inequalities
A watcher in Nairobi earns the same Sentinos per hour as a watcher in Amsterdam watching the same camera. USDC payouts protect earnings from local currency volatility. Income flows from wealthy economies to developing ones — not as charity, but as payment for a genuine service. Read more about SDG 10 →
SDG 16 — Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Active human monitoring — not passive recording — gives small independent retailers a level of security previously available only to large corporations. Verified human attention, instant alerting, and timestamped incident reporting support the justice process in a way that CCTV footage alone cannot. Read more about SDG 16 →
SDG 17 — Partnerships for the Goals
A 30% lifetime affiliate commission, a global watcher community, future ML data partnerships, and active outreach to impact investors and NGOs — Sentinel Watch is structurally a partnership model. The commercial engine and the humanitarian mission are the same engine, and both depend on the same ecosystem of participants working together. Read more about SDG 17 →
We have dedicated a full page to each of these goals on our website, explaining in detail exactly how Sentinel Watch contributes — mechanically, not rhetorically. You can find all six under Our Impact.
