SECURE LABS SYSTEMS · v1 · Kenya

Put your gate
on the record.

Secure Labs Systems replaces the paper visitor logbook with a verifiable digital record of everyone who comes and goes — visitors pre-approved, guards accountable, every arrival logged in seconds. It runs on a gate tablet and residents' phones. No hardware to install. Live in days.

Founding cohort open — free 30-day trials in Nairobi, no setup fee to start

Built for the Kenya DPA 2019 · Encrypted cloud · Works offline at the gate · From KES 500 / unit / month

Modules18 — gate, lobby, patrol, resident, board, audit
ComplianceKenya Data Protection Act, 2019 — secure cloud hosting, encrypted in transit and at rest
Operates inApartments · Estates · Private cities · Mixed-use · Security companies
StatusV1 · Kenya · Onboarding open
Seconds
Clear a pre-approved visitor
100%
Arrivals captured, not written down later
1 tablet
Nothing to install at the gate
Day one
Auditable record from the first shift
01
The threshold problem

The gate is the busiest, least-recorded
point in your property.

The blank register

The guard is busy. The visitor looks fine. They wave them through and write it down later — or not at all. By the time an incident happens, there is no record of who came in.

The queue

The visitor arrives. The guard calls the resident. The resident doesn't answer. The visitor waits. The resident calls back. Five minutes, sometimes fifteen. Every estate runs on this loop, every day.

The exception nobody logged

The contractor let in at dawn. The vehicle passed through on a look. The after-hours override that felt reasonable at the time. These are the entries that matter most — and the ones written down last.

Secure Labs Systems makes logging the path of least resistance. Pre-approved arrivals validate in seconds at the keypad. Walk-ups are captured through the same app. Every override is keyed to the guard who made it — and the record does not wait for a quiet moment.

02
How it works

Three steps. No hardware.
Live in days.

1 · Pre-approve

A resident or manager invites a visitor from their phone; the visitor gets a one-time QR code. Couriers and contractors get recurring passes — no phone calls to the gate.

2 · Validate at the gate

The guard scans the code on a tablet, cleared in seconds. Walk-ups are captured on the same screen. Every override is signed by the guard who made it, on the spot.

3 · Review & report

Management sees a live, tamper-proof record of every arrival — plus an automated monthly pack for the committee, the AGM or the regulator.

03
Who it's for

The same record,
read three different ways.

Resident · Tenant

The household, in one tap.

Pre-approve a guest before they reach the gate. Hand a courier a one-time code. File a delivery or a complaint that doesn't disappear into a chat.

  • One-time and recurring visitor codes
  • Live gate notifications (iOS & Android)
  • Household members & sub-units
  • House rules & estate announcements
Guard · Concierge

A clean shift, by design.

The shift book that fills itself in. Every gate scan, every override, every emergency — written once, signed by hand.

  • Shift roster & handover
  • QR & ID validation at the gate
  • Incident with photo & GPS (Android)
  • Delivery & visitor desk
Committee · Manager · Owner

A property that audits itself.

Occupancy, peak times, guard performance and gate exceptions — in one report you can hand to the AGM, the bank, or the regulator.

  • Monthly board pack, automated
  • DPA-grade audit log & fast data-request handling
  • Multi-gate & multi-zone dashboards
  • Companies & sub-tenant management
04
The platform

Start with the essentials.
Switch on the rest as you grow.

Six core capabilities run the daily gate operation. Everything else scales with you — switch it on when you need it. Every module writes to the same ledger and reads from the same identity.

Core — live from day one

CORE
Visitor invites, QR & gate validation
GUARD
Guard shift book & handover
RESIDENT
Resident app & household directory
DELIVERY
Parcel & courier desk
RECURRING
Recurring & contractor passes
ANALYTICS
Gate analytics & board report

Scales with you — switch on as you grow

PHOTO ID
Optional visitor photo capture
MAPS
Visitor navigation & gate map
TENANTS
Companies as independent tenants
MULTI-GATE
Multiple gates & routing
ZONES
Zoned access — residential, retail, industrial
GUARD FORCE
External guard companies, sub-rolled
EVENTS
Bulk invitations & event windows
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Estate-wide notices & receipts
EMERGENCY
Lockdown & incident escalation
COMPLIANCE
Consent, data requests & retention
PAYMENTS
M-Pesa & mobile-money levies · V1.1
BRANDING
Logo, colour, sender domain & subdomain

Switch on what you need · V1 · Kenya

Read the full module list
See the product

The same record, on every screen.

Real screens from the live platform — the resident creating a visit, and the manager watching the whole gate operation. A full interactive demo is available on request.

Resident app screen for creating a visitor invitation with a date and time window
Resident — create a visit
Property manager dashboard showing live gate activity, occupancy and alerts
Manager — command dashboard
See more of the platform
05
Configured per property archetype

Six buildings.
One operating system.

A 24-unit apartment block, a 600-home estate, a master-planned private city, a mixed-use development, a commercial office building, and a security company that runs across all of them — each gets the modules it needs and ignores the ones it doesn't.

06
What your free trial proves

We don't ask you to take
our word for it.

Every deployment starts with a free 30-day trial on one gate. We agree the measures up front and record a day-one baseline — so you end the month with numbers, not a pitch.

Gate verification time per visitor
Seconds
Arrivals logged vs. paper
100%
Peak-time queue
Measured down
Resident app adoption
Tracked
Audit-readiness & DPA retention
In place
07
Trust & data protection

Your data, handled properly.
Every arrival on record.

Visitor records, access logs and contact details are personal data. Secure Labs Systems treats them that way — and it's built for the Kenya Data Protection Act, from the gate keypad to the board report.

i.

Lawful basis at the gate.

Every visitor capture is a documented purpose. Consent at the keypad. Retention by policy, not by accident.

ii.

Secure cloud processing.

Your data is processed in secure, access-controlled cloud infrastructure — encrypted in transit and at rest. Any cross-border transfer is explicit, documented, and revocable.

iii.

An audit log you can hand over.

Every override, every export, every personal-data access — keyed to a person, a reason, and an hour. Print it for the board, the auditor, or the regulator.

iv.

Offline at the gate.

When the internet drops, the gate keeps working — entries are captured locally and sync the moment the connection returns. Nothing is missed, nothing waits.

Read the compliance brief
"If a building can't account for who walked in, it can't really call itself secure."
— Operating thesis · Secure Labs Systems

See it running on your gate in days.

Book a 15-minute demo and we'll scope a free 30-day trial on one gate — configured to your operation, guards trained, nothing to pay until you continue.

We don't pitch from slides. We come to your property, sit at the gate for a morning, and write the spec on the back of what we actually see.

Confidential · For institutional review · v1.0