The warning signs are there. Act on them.
VeriThreat gives your school's threat assessment team one place to receive concerns, investigate them the way the Secret Service recommends, and support students before a crisis.
- No student profiling or risk scores
- AI assists; your team decides
- Syncs with your SIS via OneRoster
- Every record access is audit-logged
School attacks are rarely sudden. Someone almost always saw something.
The Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center studied 41 targeted attacks on U.S. K-12 schools from 2008 to 2017. What they found should change how every district thinks about prevention.
- 100%
- of attackers showed concerning behavior before their attack
- Concerning behavior was displayed at school in 94% of cases.
- 80%
- caused others to worry about their safety, or the safety of those around them
- The concern existed. It needed somewhere to go.
- 66%
- communicated their intent or threatened the target in the two weeks before
- More than half did so within two days.
- 80%
- had been bullied by classmates
- For over half, the bullying was a persistent pattern.
Source: U.S. Secret Service NTAC, Protecting America's Schools (2019), a study of 41 attacks on K-12 schools, 2008–2017.
Physical security alone can't solve this.
In the same study, 83% of attacks were over within five minutes, and nearly half ended within one. Many of the schools already had cameras, resource officers, and lockdown procedures. By the time an attack starts, it is almost always too late.
The opportunity is earlier: in the weeks and months when a student is struggling, and when the people around them notice. That's where VeriThreat works.
“In many cases, someone observed a threatening communication or behavior but did not act, either out of fear, not believing the attacker, misjudging the immediacy or location, or believing they had dissuaded the attacker.”
From a teacher's concern to a documented support plan.
VeriThreat puts NTAC's operational guidance into a day-to-day workflow, so every concern is received, assessed, and followed through the same way.
- 01
Report
Any staff member can report a concern in about two minutes: who was involved, what happened, and photos or screenshots. An immediate-danger option tells them to call 911 right away and pins the report to the top of the queue.
- 02
Triage
Reports land in one queue for your threat assessment team. AI suggests how quickly each one needs attention, but it can never lower a reporter's emergency, and the team reviews every report.
- 03
Assess
The team gathers information across NTAC's 13 investigative themes: motives, communications, weapons access, stressors, protective factors and more. Every note and interview is documented in one case file.
- 04
Support & manage
The team records its level of concern and builds a management plan with owners and due dates. Overdue items are flagged, and a finalized report becomes the document of record.
Make it easy to speak up, and impossible for concerns to get lost.
NTAC's research shows people often notice but don't act. VeriThreat gives every teacher, counselor, coach, and staff member a simple, confidential way to report, with clear guidance on what to include.
- Search your SIS roster and tag every student involved by role
- Attach screenshots, photos of notes, or documents
- Immediate-danger option that says “call 911 first”
- Reporters see their report's status, never confidential case details
Every record in the case, organized in about a minute, with sources.
The assistant reads a student's reports, notes, and photos, then sorts what's known under each of NTAC's 13 investigative themes. Every statement links to the record it came from. Gaps are called out, not filled in.
- Citations on every finding; unverifiable citations are removed
- “Unknown” is encouraged. It tells your team what to find out next
- Suggests people to interview and supports to consider
- Students are pseudonymized before anything is sent
A defensible record of every decision.
NTAC calls for documenting when reports come in, what was gathered, who was interviewed, and what interventions followed. VeriThreat captures it as your team works, and produces a clean, printable assessment report.
- Team determination and rationale, finalized by a BTAM lead
- Management plans with owners, due dates, and overdue alerts
- Complete audit trail of who viewed or changed each record
Each role sees what it needs, and nothing more.
Teachers & staff
Threat assessment teams
District leaders
AI that organizes evidence. Never AI that profiles kids.
NTAC is explicit: there is no profile of a student attacker, and the goal isn't to predict violence. So we built VeriThreat's AI to do the parts machines are good at, and leave judgment to people.
- Orders the queue so urgent reports are seen first
- Sorts evidence under NTAC's 13 themes
- Cites a source for every statement
- Flags gaps and conflicting information
- Score or rank students who haven't been reported
- Use race, religion, disability, or income
- Lower an emergency a person flagged
- Make the team's determination
Student safety records deserve the strongest protection.
Threat assessment files are some of the most sensitive records a district holds. VeriThreat is designed around least privilege, data minimization, and accountability.
Role-based access
Complete audit trail
Data minimization
Protected evidence
Hardened sessions
Built for your policies
- Does VeriThreat predict which students will become violent? +
- No, and we think any product that claims to is doing something dangerous. NTAC's research found there is no profile of a student attacker. VeriThreat helps your team respond to concerning behavior someone has actually reported, and it never scores or ranks your student body.
- What does the AI actually do? +
- Two things. When a report comes in, it suggests how urgently your team should look at it, which only affects queue order. On request, it organizes a student's reports and notes under NTAC's investigative themes, cites the source of every statement, and points out what's still unknown. It suggests; your team decides.
- What student data do you collect? +
- Only what a threat assessment needs: name, student ID, grade, and school, synced from your student information system. We deliberately don't store race, ethnicity, religion, disability, IEP/504 status, or income, and we never request them from your SIS.
- Is student data sent to the AI? +
- Only when a report is triaged or a team member runs an analysis, and only after it's minimized. Students are replaced with labels like S1 and S2, known student names are removed from free text, and IDs, birth dates, and school names are left out. Districts can also turn AI off completely.
- Which student information systems do you support? +
- Any system that supports the OneRoster 1.2 standard, including PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Skyward, Aeries, Clever, and ClassLink. CSV import is available too.
- Does this replace our threat assessment team or training? +
- No. NTAC's model starts with a trained, multidisciplinary team. VeriThreat gives that team a reporting channel, a shared case file, and a consistent process. Your people, policies, and training are what keep students safe.
Every attacker in the Secret Service's study showed concerning behavior first.
Make sure the people who notice it have somewhere to go, and your team has what it needs to act.