Protecting a family's lifetime savings from land encroachment, one plot at a time

This is a self-authored note by co-founder Shivansh Shukla, not third-party press coverage. It describes what ShieldNex is intended to do rather than demonstrated results. It is an excerpt of a post first published on the Planet Community forum.

Sharing what we're building at ShieldNex and why it matters, in case anyone here is working on adjacent problems.

In India, a large share of household wealth sits in a single plot of land. For farmers, small business owners, and especially NRIs living abroad, that plot is often the outcome of decades of savings. It is also wide open to slow, quiet encroachment: a boundary wall creeping over, a shed going up on a corner, a track cut through a field. The owner usually finds out long after the change is on the ground, and the legal fight that follows can drag on for years. Families lose the land, the money, or both.

We built ShieldNex to close that gap.

The intent is that a landowner sitting in Dubai, Toronto, or the next district over gets to see their plot the way someone standing on it would, and that what they are shown carries its own record of where it came from.

The outcome we care about is simple: a family's lifetime savings stays with the family. A grandmother's plot doesn't quietly turn into somebody else's driveway. An NRI doesn't come back from abroad to find a stranger's building on their land.

Would love to hear from anyone in this community working on land protection, change detection for legal use, or evidence pipelines in emerging markets. Happy to compare notes on cadence, cloud cover, and chain-of-custody design.

Team ShieldNex

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