Datum · a standing watch for your address

Know before the water comes.

Datum keeps a live watch on your coastal home — the tide, the storm surge, the road out — and warns the people who matter the moment it's time to leave. Start with a free read of your address.

Free first look at your address. Keep the live watch from $199/mo · See how the watch works →
133,000+
USGS shoreline transects
1842–today
hurricane record
Cat 1–5
NOAA surge modeling
± ft/yr
measured, with confidence
How it works

One address, three steps

Start with a free read. Add the certificate if you're in a transaction. Keep the live watch if it's your home.

Step 1 · Free

Check your address

A free federal-data read on erosion and storm-surge exposure — the headline, in seconds.

Step 2 · $99 once

The certificate

Buying, selling, or closing? The full six-exhibit document, every figure sourced to the record — a one-time snapshot for the transaction.

Step 3 · from $199/mo

Datum — the live watch

Your home? Keep watching. The tide, the surge, the road out — and a warning to your people the moment it's time to leave.

Datum — the watch

A standing watch, not a one-time report.

A certificate tells you what the sea has done. Datum tells you what it's about to do — tonight. A live watch on your home that reads the bay every few minutes, projects the storm surge forward, and warns the people who matter the moment the water threatens the road out.

Live

The instrument

Your observed tide over the predicted tide, the surge between them, and the forecast cresting over your road — seven days back, two days ahead.

Alert

It warns your people

SMS and email the instant it's time to leave. Multiple contacts, quiet hours, and a LEAVE-NOW that always gets through.

Yours

Tuned to your home

Your first-floor elevation, the bay level your street floods at, and how much lead time you need — set per house.

Watch
$199 / mo
  • Live flood & evacuation instrument
  • SMS + email alerts, unlimited contacts
  • Storm-surge forecast for your address
Resilient
$599 / mo
  • Everything in Watch
  • Camera & on-site sensor feed
  • Priority watch through named storms
Start your watch →

“The coast was never going to hold still — but it does leave a record.”

A bluff on the South Fork lost twelve feet of elevation in seventy-two hours. The rate is measurable.
Measured · Westhampton Dunes, NY
59 ft of beach, gone

In ten months — 93% of the measured beach — differenced straight from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. We didn’t model it. We measured it. On the reach report, the projected waterline is drawn over the houses that are still standing.

See the Westhampton reach report →
The deliverable

An engraved certificate, not a dashboard

Read a real one — the Camp Hero bluffs at Montauk Point, eroding 3.1 ft/yr with the recent rate running 2.67× the century average. Every figure traces to a federal source.

Open a sample certificate
What's inside

Six exhibits, one determination

The screening layer before the field report: rate, setback, horizon, storm exposure, uncertainty, and a clear recommendation on whether licensed site review is warranted.

Exhibit I

Rate of change & setback

Long-term and recent erosion rates with a 90% confidence interval, and your distance to the mapped shore.

Exhibit II

Retreat history

Every historical survey since the 1800s, plotted — the sea drawing measurably nearer, decade by decade.

Exhibit III

Storm & hurricane exposure

Your surge depth by category, the storms that have passed, and an escape plan built for your parcel's regime.

Exhibit IV

Nearshore bathymetry

The seafloor that decides how much storm-wave energy reaches your bluff toe — the cause behind the rate.

Exhibit V

Methodology & uncertainty

Source vintage, confidence intervals, coverage limits, and the field conditions an automated screen cannot verify.

Exhibit VI

Determination & horizon

A single, dated finding: stable, watch, elevated, or critical — and the years until the edge reaches the house.

The record

Nothing invented. Everything sourced.

Compiled from the public archives of the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The certificate cites every dataset by name.

USGS Digital Shoreline Analysis SystemNOAA SLOSH surge maps NOAA IBTrACS hurricane archiveUSGS national elevationGEBCO bathymetry
The one-time certificate

Buying, selling, or closing? Get the certificate.

For a buyer in diligence, an attorney at closing, or a lender underwriting the collateral — a one-time snapshot of the ground, every figure sourced to the federal record.

$99 / address
  • The full six-exhibit certificate, delivered as a document
  • Every figure sourced to the federal record
  • Parcel-specific storm exposure and escape plan
  • Transaction package with methodology appendix — on request
Assess an address

Keeping the house? A one-time snapshot ages the moment the next storm moves the shoreline — Datum keeps watching for as long as you own it. Keep a live watch →

For coastal engineers

One firm per coastline

Psammite assembles the pre-field due-diligence packet in seconds and feeds you the leads in your exclusive territory — you keep the survey, permit, and design work. Intake infrastructure for your firm, not a competitor.

Claim your territory →