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Argus does the research. Your team does the protection.

A protective advance is two different kinds of work: the hours of research and assessment that build the picture, and the on-the-ground judgment that acts on it. Argus Advance takes the first so your detail is free for the second. It informs the protective decision — it never makes it.

The 90 / 10 split

About 90% of the advance is research. That's the part Argus carries.

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Argus Advance handles — the research layer

The hours of legwork that used to bury an agent in paperwork: the threat and situational picture, routes, medical readiness, venue assessment, live feeds, and a trip-specific assistant — assembled for every stop before arrival.

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Your detail owns — the human layer

The part only a person on the ground can do: confirming what's real on-site, working liaison and relationships, exercising judgment, and providing the physical protection of the principal.

The 90/10 split describes the division of labor between research and on-the-ground work; the figures are illustrative, not a measured performance guarantee.

The work Argus does

What lands on the Brief before your team leaves the office.

For every stop, the research layer is built and saved the moment it lands — so the advance starts near the finish line, not the starting line.

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The research layer, per stop

Threat & situational picture — level, score, hot zones, crime picture, counter-surveillance
Movement — primary, alternate, extraction and avoid routes, drawn on the map
Medical readiness — nearest trauma care, ED/ICU ingress, EMS context, response plans
Venue assessment — access, egress, entry points, media staging, inside-view imagery
Live feeds & citations — multi-source intelligence, every conclusion traceable
Trip-grounded assistant — plain-language answers about this specific trip

The point: your team walks in already briefed, and verifies rather than assembles.

The work that stays with your team

The 10% only a human can do — and Argus makes it easier to prove.

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On the ground, the detail owns

On-site confirmation — is what the assessment says actually true today?
Liaison & relationships — venue security, local law enforcement, EMS, staff
Judgment — reading the room and the moment, and adapting the plan
Physical protection — the presence and the response that only people provide

Argus supports it: the pre-walk checklist pre-affirms what to check; the team confirms or flags each item, captures evidence, and the record writes itself.

How a trip flows

Plan → Assess → Brief → Active → Debrief.

The same five steps every trip, so the advance is consistent no matter who runs it.

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1 · Plan

Drop in an itinerary — or a single destination — and Argus builds the stops. Add or adjust by hand as needed.

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2 · Assess

Each stop gets its full research layer, streamed section by section and saved as it lands, from public and open-source intelligence.

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3 · Brief

One clean per-stop picture — threats, routes, trauma, site access, checklist — ready to brief the detail and export.

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4 · Active

During the trip, live status per stop and next-leg staging keep the current picture in front of the team.

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5 · Debrief

At close-out, the confirmed record compiles into a self-writing after-action with attributed field verification.

Where the two layers meet

Argus proposes; the field confirms; the record proves it.

The handoff between the research layer and the human layer is the field-verification loop — it's what turns an assessment into a decision your team stands behind.

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The loop

Argus pre-affirms the expected advance items for each venue
The team confirms or flags each item on the ground
Evidence is captured — a verified image, a photo, a voice or typed note
Field flags feed back into the risk picture so the assessment self-corrects
Every action is attributed in an append-only ledger — a defensible record

The result: a protective decision that is informed by research, confirmed by people, and provable after the fact.

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