heritage watch

Who we are

Cultural heritage is vanishing much faster than we realise. Conflict, natural disasters, and unchecked development are erasing the traces of our shared history.

Most times, we don’t even know it’s happening, and when we do, we rarely have enough information to act wisely, or quickly enough to make a difference. The result is loss upon loss, hidden in plain sight. The right data, at the right time, can change everything: more sites are protected, structures stand stronger, and conservation action happens faster. That’s what Heritage Watch AI makes possible. Through an AI-powered global monitoring platform, it collects, curates, and analyses real-time data on millions of heritage sites, turning awareness into action, and information into preservation.

What we do

Our mission is to support cultural and natural heritage preservation by providing actionable insights, early-warning systems and advanced monitoring tools.

In today’s rapidly changing world, heritage faces new global phenomena and emerging risks that lead to its deterioration or destruction. Natural disasters exacerbated by climate change, urban expansion, mass tourism, as well as conflicts are increasingly putting cultural and natural heritage sites under pressure.
There is an urgent need to better understand and monitor these threats to ensure the safeguarding of heritage for future generations, and traditional methods are no longer sufficient to keep pace with the scale and speed of these changes.
Given the urgency of this situation, we created HeritageWatch.AI, committed to developing advanced solutions to protect and preserve our shared heritage.

Our objectives

Systemise the collection of information on the conditions of heritage sites, to enable better diagnosis of the threats affecting them
Ensure equal treatment for all heritage sites, enhancing visibility of less-known sites
Alert decision-makers to implement preservation measures and protection solutions
Raise public awareness about the various types of threats that heritage sites face
Support the heritage community in their work, by providing essential information to carry out preservation and conservation actions for heritage assets.

Our methodology

New challenges require new approaches. At HeritageWatch.AI, we harness the power of artificial intelligence to identify changes and assess threats to heritage.

Our multidisciplinary team combines advanced methods such as automated change detection and pattern recognition with a wide range of data sources to deliver comprehensive and actionable information to heritage practitioners and the public.