WOMBATS Shield
Who Shield is for

A calm appliance that fits more lives than you might think.

Shield is the same calm hardware in every household. The difference is what it quietly takes care of for you.

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Households

Friday night, calm network.

The kids are watching something on the lounge-room TV, the parents are on the laptop in the kitchen. Shield quietly filters the whole house. Ads, trackers, adult content, threats. No one needs to reach for an app or sign into a portal. Pause the kids' iPad without touching the rest of the network.

Shield Core for households
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Privacy-first professionals

Client work that stays on the property.

If you do legal, journalism, healthcare or executive work from home, the network is part of your professional surface. Shield is a calm, sovereign appliance you can put behind your modem to keep filtering and management on your network. No vendor cloud. No telemetry pipeline back to anyone.

Read the threat model
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Australian sovereignty buyers

Australian engineering on the wall.

If your default is to choose Australian where you reasonably can, Shield is a small home network appliance designed and engineered in Australia, by a small team you can email. We tell you exactly what's underneath: Pi 5, Debian, AdGuard hardened, signed updates. And what we do with it.

About WOMBATS
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Small offices & studios

Sovereign protection without an MSP contract.

Architects, accountants, design studios, small clinics. Five to twenty devices, sensitive data, no IT person, and no appetite for a vendor cloud sitting in the middle of every DNS lookup. Shield is the appliance you put on the wall once and keep there for years.

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Prosumers

A polished base you can build on.

Real Pi 5 hardware. Debian 12 base. Hardened AdGuard Home. Signed update path. Secure-element-backed unlock. The local UI doesn't require an account anywhere. Open underneath, calm on top.

How it works
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Frequent travellers

Pack a calm Wi-Fi network in your bag.

Shield Vault's Wi-Fi access point mode gives you your own filtered Wi-Fi network on hotel Ethernet. For the family devices, the work laptop and the kids' iPad. None of it routes through a hotel captive portal you don't trust.

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Founding Edition

Whichever life, the founding price stays with you for life.

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