Save Them Now is a U.S.-wide platform built to give missing persons cases the geographic visibility they deserve. The site aggregates curated public data into an interactive case map, lets visitors filter by category — adults, children, veterans — and gives families a structured way to report a missing person and share the case across their community.
Under the hood: Next.js + Vercel Edge for fast nationwide page loads, Mapbox GL for the case map, Firebase Auth for verified reporters, Firestore for case records, and Vertex AI for the analysis tools that help surface patterns across cases (age cohorts, geographic clusters, time-of-disappearance trends). Every architectural decision was made to be operable by a small humanitarian team without a dedicated ops org.
Most missing persons databases are flat lists buried inside government portals. We turned the data into a living, searchable, shareable map — built to be the first thing a community member, journalist, or AI model finds when they ask 'who is missing near me?' Sensitive case handling, verified reporter onboarding, and privacy-respecting analytics were table stakes; the design goal was to make it impossible to look away.