A different emergency number
In a language they are still learning.
For study abroad offices
Duty of care for study abroad, in every time zone.
Your students may be six to fourteen hours ahead. Their people are one press away. Built for study abroad offices; universities, sororities and au pair agencies use it the same way.
If you are in immediate danger, call 911, or the local emergency number outside the United States (112 across the European Union). push! alerts the people a student chose. It does not contact police or emergency services.
The problem you carry
Something happens at 2 a.m. their time.
Your office is closed
The first call lands with whoever is awake.
Nobody knows where they are
"Something is wrong" is not a location.
The cost of the status quo
Check-in texts, group chats and hope.
- A check-in text proves someone was fine an hour ago.
- A call needs a free hand, a quiet place and the right number.
- An app that tracks all day gives a student a reason to turn it off.
push! sits alongside your 24/7 line and your assistance provider. It does not replace them.
- Student
Landed. Going out with the group tonight.
7:42 PM - Parent
Everything ok?
1:05 AM - Parent
Call me.
2:10 AM Delivered
The offer
Each student abroad with an iPhone carries one button that alerts their own people with live location, audio and video in ten seconds, and there is nothing for your office to run.
For adults 18 and older. Contacts also need push! on an iPhone. push! is in beta.
For a student abroad
Three screens.
When an alert fires
What their people do next.
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See and hear
The notification says who pressed. In push!: the live map, video and sound.
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Call for help where the student is
The local emergency number for the spot on the map, then your 24/7 line. push! makes no call itself.
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Stay until I'm Safe
They are told when the student ends it, or if it ended unconfirmed: after an hour, or 10 minutes without a signal.
Your on-call staff can be a student's contact like anyone else: push! on an iPhone, and the student's code. There is no office account.
Off
Nothing sent.
Press
Ten seconds.
Their people
The contacts on their list.
I'm Safe
Their PIN ends it.
Off
Nothing sent.
Built so students keep it
Privacy is the design, not a setting.
- They choose their people. A parent, a roommate, a friend in the same city.
- No surveillance. Location is shared only during an alert.
- No organization view. No org accounts, no admin screen. push! gives your office no view of a student's alerts, and no student data to hold.
The value
Why it makes sense.
Reach
Each student, one press from their people
The ones who would drop everything.
Likelihood
Built to be kept
One button, their own people, nothing to opt out of.
Time
Ten seconds
Press to live location, or sooner with Send Alert Now.
Effort
Nothing to run
Installed from the App Store (beta). No dashboard, no training.
Objections
The questions your review will ask.
Privacy?
No location, audio or video is sent between alerts. During one, they go live to the student's contacts. Data lives on Google Cloud; the Privacy Policy covers transfers, Your data the plain English.
Liability and contracts?
push! is not an emergency service and never contacts one. The Terms are consumer terms; ask us for a program agreement, a data processing agreement and our insurance position before a pilot.
Cost?
Program pricing is a conversation. Tell us your numbers and your term.
Effort to roll out?
One line in the pre-departure packet: install push!, add two people. There is a free trial, then a subscription; program terms are a conversation. Nothing for your office to administer.
Does it work abroad?
Wherever the phone has data and Google services reach it; push! runs on Firebase, so do not count on it where Google is blocked, including mainland China. Per-country delivery tests are not published yet. The in-app button opens the dialer with 911; abroad, students dial the local number.
Who can use it?
Adults 18 and older, with an iPhone. Contacts also need push! on an iPhone. There is no Android version today.
Can we vet it?
Yes: Your data, Privacy Policy, Terms, accessibility statement (this website), security.txt. This website runs no trackers; the app sends usage events to Firebase Analytics, no ad software.
Proof
What a pilot measures
From the first pilotPress-to-notification time, median and worst case, per country.
From the first pilotDelivery rate, honestly labelled.
From the first pilotWhat a director and a student said.
push! publishes only real results. These fill in after the first pilot.
For your file
The facts.
| Company | ByPULLA LLC, Holmdel, New Jersey, United States |
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| Product | push!, in beta on the App Store for iPhone. Contacts also need it on an iPhone. |
| Who it is for | Adults 18 and older (Terms and Conditions) |
| Where data goes | Google Cloud (Firebase), Agora, Google Maps, Apple, RevenueCat. Details on Your data. |
| Questions | support@pulla.org |
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