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The record your venue will be asked for.

Vigil logs what happens on the door and in the room as it happens, keeps it tamper-evident, and turns it into the Martyn’s Law record a licensing officer, an insurer or the police will ask to see. Built for pubs, clubs and venues by someone who spent seven years working in them.

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The record your venue will be asked for.

See how it works

1. Log it

Door entries, refusals, ejections and incidents from a phone, timestamped by the device, not typed up later.

2. Score it

Your tier, the four public-protection procedures, drills and training, scored against the duty.

3. Prove it

Every entry chained and signed, so a year later nobody can say it was changed.

Founding Venues are onboarding now. Places are limited because the founder sets each one up personally.

Martyn’s Law is law. Start keeping the record now.

Readiness scored against the duty, with the evidence behind each item.

Incident management

What happened, on the record. Incidents, refusals and ejections logged in seconds by the person who was there. Every entry is timestamped, signed and chained, so nobody can quietly change it later.

Log it while it’s fresh.

Title, type, severity, location and the narrative in one screen. Sealed the moment you save, with gentle prompts that keep reports factual.

Review, escalate, seal.

Every record opens as a case file. Mark it reviewed, add the person to your watchlist or share it to your Pubwatch in one click.

Nothing slips through.

Open records sit at the top until someone actions them. Filter by severity, status or category, and export the lot when someone asks.

WHAT IT’S WORTH

£2,500+

Typical legal fees for a contested licensing hearing, before you count the risk to the licence itself.

A record made at the time, by the person who was there, is the strongest thing you can bring to that room.

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Readiness

Martyn’s Law, done properly. Your tier, your four procedures, your Responsible Person and your training, all in one place and kept current, with the gaps shown plainly.

Procedures that stay current.

Evacuation, invacuation, lockdown and communication. Start from a template, edit the steps, and every change is saved as a new version.

The right people, named.

Appoint your Responsible Person and, for Enhanced venues, your Designated Senior Individual. A short wizard explains each role as you go.

Measures, mapped to the guidance.

Add protective measures by category, following ProtectUK’s framing, so your plan reads the way the regulator expects.

WHAT IT’S WORTH

£10,000

The maximum penalty for a Standard tier venue under Martyn’s Law, plus up to £500 a day for continued non-compliance. Enhanced tier penalties go up to £18 million or 5% of worldwide revenue.

Vigil keeps the evidence that you’ve done the work, ready when it’s asked for.

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Pubwatch

One register for the whole scheme. A ban agreed at the meeting reaches every member’s door the same night. Each venue stays in control of its own list.

Start a scheme in a minute.

Name it, pick Pubwatch, BID or a custom partnership, and invite members with a join code. You approve every request.

Share in one click.

Mirror a refusal or a ban to the scheme straight from the incident. Peer venues review it before it lands on their list.

Meetings, sorted.

Scheme meetings, RSVPs and minutes in one place, and the night’s shared bans pulled into every member’s door brief.

WHAT IT’S WORTH

1 night

How long it takes a ban agreed at the meeting to reach every member’s door.

No phone trees, no printed photos on the back of the bar, no “nobody told me”.

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Atlas

Your venue, mapped. Turn a floor plan or a scan of the building into a live site model, plan your exits and stewards on it, and rehearse an evacuation before the doors open.

Plan exits, stewards and life-safety points on your actual building.

Simulate an evacuation before doors open.

Live zone-level picture on the night. Advisory only, and staff make every decision.

Scan the ground first.

Import a scan or start a live capture. GLB, OBJ, E57, LAS and PLY files all work.

From point cloud to plan.

Millions of points cleaned into a white-line model with floors, walls, structure and every opening classified.

Rehearse before doors open.

See egress routes, choke points and zones on your actual building. On the night, Atlas is advisory only and staff make every call.

WHAT IT’S WORTH

Before, not during

Find the choke point on a model, not on the night.

Rehearse layouts, exits and steward positions before you change the room, the event or the capacity.

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PEEPs

One plan, per person. Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans for anyone who needs help getting out, each with a route, a steward and a refuge, and recalculated the moment anything changes.

A plan for every person who needs one.

A steward assigned to each plan, with refuge capacity tracked.

Plans recalculate when a route closes or a hazard changes.

Declared at the door.

Mobility, assist level and how someone wants to be reached, captured behind explicit consent. A reference is issued, never a name.

A plan you can act on.

Primary and secondary routes, step-free checks, lift authorisation, equipment and muster, all on one card.

Everyone accounted for.

A live evacuation board that reconciles every plan when a hazard, a congestion shift or a lost refuge changes the room.

WHAT IT’S WORTH

Everyone out

Some things don’t have a price. Getting every person out, including the ones who need help, is one of them.

Every plan and recompute is sealed to the audit chain, so you can show exactly what was in place.

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Incidents

Readiness

Pubwatch

Atlas

PEEPs

Incident management

What happened, on the record. Incidents, refusals and ejections logged in seconds by the person who was there. Every entry is timestamped, signed and chained, so nobody can quietly change it later.

Log it while it’s fresh.

Title, type, severity, location and the narrative in one screen. Sealed the moment you save, with gentle prompts that keep reports factual.

Review, escalate, seal.

Every record opens as a case file. Mark it reviewed, add the person to your watchlist or share it to your Pubwatch in one click.

Nothing slips through.

Open records sit at the top until someone actions them. Filter by severity, status or category, and export the lot when someone asks.

WHAT IT’S WORTH

£2,500+

Typical legal fees for a contested licensing hearing, before you count the risk to the licence itself.

A record made at the time, by the person who was there, is the strongest thing you can bring to that room.

Explore incidents

Martyn’s Law

What the law asks, and how Vigil helps you get ready.

WHY VIGIL

The night ends. The questions don’t.

Every venue knows the feeling. Something happened on Saturday, and on Wednesday someone with authority wants to know exactly what. Vigil exists for that moment.

1. “Who wrote this, and when?”

Handwritten logs, WhatsApp photos and memories written up days later fall apart the moment a licensing officer, insurer or solicitor leans on them. Vigil records it at the time, by the person who was there, and seals it.

2. “Show me your Martyn’s Law plan.”

Most venues have a folder that hasn’t been opened since it was written. Vigil keeps your procedures, people and training current, and shows you the gaps before someone else finds them.

3. “Did the door know?”

A ban agreed at Pubwatch on Tuesday is useless if Friday’s door team never heard about it. Vigil puts the night’s bans, threat level and notes in front of every member of staff before doors open.

4. “What happens to the people who can’t use the stairs?”

Personal evacuation plans usually live in someone’s head. Vigil gives each person a route, a steward and a refuge, and recalculates when anything changes.

5. “Five tools, none of them talking.”

A door app, a spreadsheet, a group chat, a paper log and a compliance consultant. Vigil replaces the patchwork with one record that everything feeds into.

6. “We can’t afford a security team.”

Vigil is built for the venue with one duty manager and a door team of four, not the stadium with a control room. Set up in an afternoon, priced per venue.

Built for forty kinds of premises.

Sector configurations for pubs, bars, nightclubs, live music venues, theatres, festivals, sports grounds, student unions, hotels, places of worship, shopping centres, schools and more. Access control from Paxton, Gallagher and SALTO; building protocols including BACnet, Modbus, MQTT, DALI, Art-Net and sACN.

Pubs
Bars
Nightclubs
Live music
Theatres
Festivals
Sports grounds
Student unions
Hotels
Places of worship
Shopping centres
Schools
+28 more

7 years working the floor.

“I’ve stood on the door when something went wrong and watched the paperwork get written up the next day from memory. Vigil exists so the record is made at the time, by the device, and can’t be argued with later.”

Ben Pinson-Eggleton, founder, Vigil Labs.

Martyn’s Law in numbers.

200

Capacity at which the standard tier starts

800

Capacity at which the enhanced tier starts

179,00

Premises in scope

£18m

Enhanced-tier maximum penalty

Frequently Asked Questions

Short answers to the questions venues ask first.

What is Martyn’s Law?

The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 received Royal Assent in April 2025. It requires qualifying premises and events to have public-protection procedures and, for larger venues, additional measures. Commencement timing should be checked against the latest Home Office announcement.

Does my venue need to do anything yet?

Start keeping your record and identifying gaps now. Confirm the latest commencement date and statutory guidance before relying on a launch timeline.

Which tier am I in?

Standard tier is 200 to 799 people; enhanced tier is 800 or more. Vigil works it out from your capacity and sector and shows what each tier requires.

Does Vigil make my venue compliant?

Vigil gives you the Martyn’s Law procedures, training records and evidence trail your venue needs, and shows you any gaps. Putting them into practice is down to you, and the SIA has the final say.