Why FIND ME ASAP
Exists
The problem no one fixed. The gap no tool addressed. And one 13-year-old who decided to stop waiting.
Why FIND ME ASAP Exists
She did not write a letter to a government agency. She did not wait for a nonprofit to respond. She did not ask an adult to fix it. She opened an IDE and started building.
"I looked for something that would help a family the moment a child went missing. I found a government PDF. Nothing that does anything. So I built it."
— ZaLayaa Jahzara, Creator, FIND ME ASAPShe is the child this system had no tools for. She did not just understand this problem — she has always lived inside it. FIND ME ASAP is the result: a complete emergency response platform built by a 13-year-old Black girl with 40+ invisible conditions, for every child the system left out.
What No One Had Fixed
When a child goes missing, the first minutes determine everything. Yet the tools families reach for — government PDFs from 2017, outdated nonprofit templates — treat every child as identical. They do not account for race, for invisible disabilities, for behavioral or medical complexity. They do not tell a bystander how to approach a child who will flee from sudden movement. They do not give a first responder any information about what they cannot see.
An officer runs toward a child with autism and the child flees. A bystander grabs the arm of a child with EDS and dislocates her shoulder. A child goes nonverbal and is assumed to be lying. These are not edge cases. They are the systemic failure this platform was built to end.