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Beacon

Beacon

Confidential. Enforceable. Email.

Created on 24th August 2025

Beacon

Beacon

Confidential. Enforceable. Email.

The problem Beacon solves

You send a confidential email — pay information, legal documents, business agreements — and you don't know if it was opened, forwarded, or abused. Traditional email provides zero visibility or control after it leaves your mailbox.

That is where our project, Beacon, comes in.
It's not only an email system. It's a security layer on top of email, merging tracking, access control, and AI-based insights under one platform.

Beacon is an email security solution that inserts tracking and PIN-protected links into emails, providing visibility, control, and AI-led insights to mitigate misuse and forwarding.

How it works:
1.Every email you send includes a unique beacon and a secure link.

2.The recipient must enter a PIN (set up during onboarding) to unlock the content.

3.Our system logs every interaction — IP, device, timestamp — so security admins know exactly who opened it, when, and from where.

4.If someone forwards your email, we detect IP/device mismatches and flag and block it immediately instantly.

Why this matters:
Stops sensitive data leaks via email.

Provides forward-detection — a first line of defense against insider misuse and phishing.

Saves admins from drowning in raw logs with AI.

Emails haven’t changed in 40 years. With Beacon, we’re finally giving organizations the visibility, control, and intelligence they deserve.

Compatible with all email vendors.

Challenges we ran into

Implementing beacon inside the email body itself

Figuring out how to get accurate information through beacon for accurate tracking and management

implementing secure links and access control

multi vendor management

But we overcame all these challenges and implemented all of the above.

Tracks Applied (3)

Vultr Cloud Deployment Track

Self Hosted Appwrite on Vulture using their Compute Instance. used Cloud Functions for api call backs for email impleme...Read More
Vultr

Vultr

Best Use of Gemini API

Implemented Gemini with Genkit to analyse all beacon security logs and email access logs hosted in psg db to identify su...Read More
Major League Hacking

Major League Hacking

Open Innovation

No existing mainstream application exists

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