Security is a trust business with no system of record.
Shadow is building the platform the security industry runs on: a marketplace for vetted protection, a console for the teams that deliver it, and the compliance record that proves it. Founded by a former U.S. Secret Service agent. Privately held.
Protection is bought on reputation and delivered on spreadsheets, group texts, and radios. The client cannot see who is on post. The agency cannot prove what it delivered. The operator has no portable record of the work. Shadow puts all three on one live record, and that record is the business.
Demand, supply, and the proof,
on one record.
Businesses and individuals book vetted, insured protection professionals. Verification is the product: unclaimed listings are never bookable, so verified means something.
Security agencies, corporate in-house teams, and government details run posts, shifts, live boards, briefings, threat cards, and reports on one system.
Workplace violence prevention plans, training records, logged incidents, and audit-ready files. Regulation such as California SB 553 turns a nice-to-have into an obligation.
Four revenue lines,
one data spine.
Each line feeds the next. A booking on the marketplace becomes an event on the console, an event produces a compliance record, and the record makes the next booking easier to win.
A booking fee on every engagement hired through the platform.
Seat-based tiers for agencies, with a flat suite for in-house and government teams.
Guardian for individuals and families. Business Manager for companies that hire security regularly.
Compliance as a service for client companies, with insurance as a roadmap attach.
The mandate arrived before the software did.
Employers now carry legal duties around workplace violence prevention. Executive exposure is a board-level topic. Event security is a line item on every production budget. None of it has a platform. Shadow already delivers the service, which is why it can build the system.
Shadow is an operating company first. Events, executive protection, Fortune 500 team training, fractional security leadership, and compliance programs are revenue today. The app turns that operating knowledge into software the rest of the industry runs on.
Michael de Geus
Twelve years with the U.S. Secret Service, including the Presidential Protective Division. Since founding Shadow: more than 500 events supported across four continents with zero incidents, an executive protection training program delivered to a Fortune 500 in-house team, and the doctrine behind a three-book operational series.
Four steps from first call
to terms.
Nothing on this page is an offer, and no offer is made on the first call. That conversation exists to establish a relationship and to find out whether there is mutual fit. Detailed materials follow only after that, for accredited investors, under a signed NDA.
Twenty minutes with the founder, to get to know each other. You tell us about your thesis and check size. We tell you where Shadow is and what we are building toward. No securities are offered on this call.
Once a relationship is established and the NDA is signed, you receive the company overview, the model, and the current metrics.
Financials, contracts, product, security posture, and the decision record behind the roadmap. Direct access to the founder for diligence.
Any offering is made only through definitive documents, only to accredited investors we have an established relationship with, and only where such an offering is lawful.