● What we're building next
Watching the resale market is where this is heading.
Every registry can log your stolen bike; almost none go looking for it afterward. That gap is the reason FoundWall exists, and closing it properly takes a source-by-source access review before a single listing is read. This page is the plan.
File the notice today and the record is ready the day the watch ships.
Kijiji · City of Toronto · posted 2h ago
Marketplace · Scarborough · posted 5h ago
Craigslist · Quinte West · posted 1d ago
Why we're building it
Thieves don't keep what they take. They sell it — within days, on a board near you.
The listing is the moment an item becomes findable again. Catch it and you have a photo, a price, a timestamp and a location. Watching for that listing is where this product is heading — and the rest of this page is the plan, published in full while we build it.
Where we look
The boards stolen goods pass through.
Canada resells on these. Each one needs its own access basis — terms, rate limits, what may be retained and shown — recorded and reviewed before we read a single page. The tags describe how open each board is.
Canada's busiest classifieds board and the first place a stolen bike or mower reappears. Category and city pages are fully public, which makes it the first board we bring up.
Open · no loginEnormous local volume, but listings sit behind an account and change layout often. Any pass here stays light and rate-limited, leaning on titles, price and neighbourhood, and it waits on an access basis we can stand behind.
Login-gatedThinner in Canada than the US, still busy in the big metros for bikes and electronics. Public pages, read city by city against your last-seen radius.
Open · no loginMostly US, growing at the border — relevant for cross-border items and drones that travel. Login-gated, so it sits behind the same access review as Marketplace and comes last.
Login-gatedHow matching works
A match is a probability you judge.
Your notice becomes a fingerprint: brand, model, colour, frame size and the city radius you last saw it in. A listing is scored against that fingerprint, and it surfaces once the signals stack up — as a lead you weigh, with the reasons laid out. The scorecard beside this is an illustration of that output.
Illustration. Frame + colour + city aligned; serial unverified — confirming that stays your call.
Where we stand
What we are building is personal monitoring on the owner's behalf: reading public listings you could read yourself, and telling you when one resembles the thing you reported missing. It hands you a listing, a price, a timestamp and a location — the same evidence you'd gather by refreshing the board every hour. It never accuses the seller, never contacts them for you, and never decides anything is stolen. Whatever happens next, a conversation, a marketplace report or a police file, stays your call. Every source clears its own access review before it goes on.
Where it stands
The order we build it in.
Everything that carries your record is running now. The watch is built on top of it, one board at a time, each one behind its own access review.
Put the record on the wall now. The watch comes to it.
A notice takes two minutes and works today: public, searchable, and reachable by whoever finds your item. Every notice filed now is one the watch can cover the day it ships.