SHDW APP
The ultimate operating system for the protection and security industries.
Patent Pending
Stop running your operation on spreadsheets, group texts, and radios. SHDW is one platform to book vetted protection, deploy your team, and command every detail live, from a solo operator to a Fortune 500 security division.
No credit card to start · set up your first event in minutes
What you actually get back
Every tool here buys back the same thing: your time.
A protection professional should spend the day protecting people, not rebuilding next week's schedule, chasing timesheets, or losing a weekend to invoices. SHDW does that work so you do not have to. Underneath the boards, the roster, and the live command, the platform is quietly handing back the hours the old stack of spreadsheets, group texts, and radios takes from you.
Built once, not every week
Build from your verified roster and let conflicts, gaps, and overtime surface before you publish. Open posts fill as operators claim them, so the Sunday-night rebuild becomes a quick review.
Nothing to reconstruct
Geofenced clock-in records every hour as it is worked, so there are no disputed hours to argue and no paper to hunt down when it is time to pay.
Settled in minutes
Reconcile any set of days into one report and bill straight from it. Closing out an event takes minutes at your desk instead of a weekend at the kitchen table.
SHDW buys back your time. Spend it on your clients, your family, and the business you're building, not the busywork.
Editions & pricing
Priced for who you are.
The way accounting runs on one system, security runs on SHDW. Start free and scale, or talk to us about government and enterprise.
Every paid plan started online includes a 14-day free trial.
Agencies & operators
Get bookable, win work, and run every event with a command-grade ops suite. Subcontract, white-label reports, and grow.
In-house / Corporate
Fortune 500 security divisions run their whole internal program: teams, protectees, WVPP, and standing details, in one system.
Government
Public-sector teams run details and events with the compliance, audit trail, and access controls the mission requires.
Individuals & families
Guardian keeps people monitored and tracked, and connects them to a dispatched operator the moment it matters.
Learn more about Guardian →The 14-day trial needs a card to start, and the card is charged when the trial ends unless you cancel before then. Marketplace bookings settle securely in-app. Enterprise and government include custom terms and onboarding. Volume pricing over 100 seats: talk to us.
How it works
Live in three steps.
Set up your operation
Create an event, build your posts, and add your team, or search the marketplace and book a verified operator for the discipline you need.
Deploy and command live
Geofenced clock-in, a live board by floor, deck, or zone, daily briefings, BOLOs, and SOS, all in one command picture.
Debrief and bill
Hours, billing, deployment, and a branded mission debrief in a click. White-label it for your client and get paid.
In the field
The command center, in every operator's pocket.
The office runs the operation on a full console. The team on the ground runs it from their phone: on post, on the board, one tap from help.
On post
Geofenced clock-in, current assignment, and a briefing that travels with the operator.
On the board
The same live command picture the office sees, by floor, deck, or zone.
One tap from help
SOS reaches the on-scene team; press and hold sends a silent duress signal with location.
Run the whole operation
Command-grade, end to end.
From the first quote to the after-action report, SHDW is the single system your team, your client, and your operators all work in.
Live board & deployment tracking
See every operator on post in real time, by floor, deck, or zone, in a live command picture. Off-post and off-floor flag instantly.
Daily briefings & weather
One-page readiness briefings with coverage gaps, run of show, live venue weather, BOLOs, and contacts. Acknowledged by the team.
BOLO & threat intelligence
Persons-of-concern dossiers pushed as recognition cards to the assigned team, plus area signals near the venue.
Protectee dossiers
Person-first details: bios, family, standing schedules, travel, and monitoring, wired into every event.
VIP check-in
Import a guest list, send QR passes, and scan in and out at the gate with photo-verified passes.
Workplace violence (SB 553)
Build and distribute the plan, log incidents, and generate the compliance report, per event or per client.
Posts, shifts & live check-in
Build the board, assign people, geofence clock-in, cover sick calls, and rotate posts without losing the picture.
Reports & mission debrief
Hours and billing reconciliation, by day or across the whole run, and a branded mission debrief with per-section detail and images.
SOS & covert duress
One tap alerts the on-scene team; press-and-hold sends a silent duress signal with location, escalating until answered.
Plan library
Security, Emergency Ops, Medical, Comms, Threat and Risk, and WVPP, written from your event and exported as branded PDFs.
Marketplace & subs
Book vetted operators, subcontract org to org on a need-to-know schedule, and order vendor equipment with delivery and pickup.
Documents & QuickBooks
One library for every certificate, license and COI, deduped on upload, with QuickBooks connected for invoicing.
Live from the phone
Any operator can go live from their phone camera straight into Command, so leadership sees what the post sees without a radio call.
Receipts & overtime
Receipts logged against the event, reimbursements onto payroll, and overtime on a per-event policy straight into reconciliation.
Directions to the venue
One tap opens turn-by-turn directions in Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze, so nobody spends the start of a shift hunting for the address.
Any deployment, any scale
A 60-story hotel, an office tower, or a 100,000+ attendee festival.
The same live command picture whether your operators are stacked in a hotel, an office tower, or a ship, or spread across a festival ground or a private estate. Drag the model to orbit.
Four layouts shown. All 10+ venue types render as one of them.
Patent Pending
The bottom line
Run easier. Spend less. Sleep better.
SHDW exists to improve the quality of life of the people who do this work: the agency owner buried in spreadsheets, the production team juggling radios and paper, the operator chasing a paycheck. One system that makes the operation run with ease, and pays for itself doing it.
Replace the stack, keep the margin
One subscription does the job of the scheduling tool, the time clock, the dispatch thread, the billing spreadsheet, and the report template. Planned vs. actual flags overtime before it bills, and white-label reports make a lean agency look like a division.
One live picture, fewer coordinator hours
Import the workbook, get a live-priced plan, and run the whole show from one board instead of radios and printouts. Reconcile any set of days in one report, so settling the event takes minutes, not a weekend.
Every hour counted, paid fast
Geofenced clock-in means no disputed hours and no lost paperwork. Payouts land through Stripe Connect with instant cash-out to a debit card, and your verified profile keeps the next booking coming.
Trust & safety
Built by people whose job is protecting people.
SHDW was founded by a former U.S. Secret Service agent who served on the Presidential Detail, then ran global security in the private sector, protecting people across four continents with the same fragmented tools this industry still runs on. He built the system he always needed: one that protects your people while you run your business.
Verified operators
Licenses, background checks, and insurance, surfaced before you book.
Data control
Per-tenant scoping, access logging, and a clear record of who touched your data.
Audited command
Every cross-tenant action is logged; sensitive vaults are encrypted at rest.
Compliance-ready
State licensing gates, WVPP, and the paperwork the work actually requires.
Questions
What you are probably wondering.
Is it for my size?
Yes. A solo operator starts free; agencies scale by seat; corporate and government run the full platform. Same system, right edition.
Which disciplines are covered?
All nine: protection, investigation, aerial, medical, fire, transport, canine, cyber, and maritime, each furnished for its work.
How fast can we start?
Minutes. Create an event, build your posts, add your team, and you are running a live board. No install.
Is my data secure?
Per-tenant isolation, access logging, encrypted vaults, and a full audit trail of every cross-tenant action.
Do you support government procurement?
Yes. Government and enterprise editions include custom terms, SSO, and onboarding. Talk to sales.
How does billing work?
Editions are monthly. Marketplace bookings settle securely in-app; agencies can white-label and bill their own clients.
The marketplace
Two sides. One trusted network.
SHDW connects the people who need protection with the professionals who provide it, and gives both the tools to run the work end to end.
Book vetted protection, fast.
Post what you need or search directly. Match with verified, licensed operators for the exact discipline, then run the whole engagement in one place.
- Verified supply. Licensed, background-checked, insured operators and agencies.
- Any discipline, any venue. Executive protection to a stadium to a private estate.
- One workspace. Quote, contract, deploy, and get the after-action report without leaving SHDW.
Get discovered. Run and grow.
Build a bookable profile, win work, and manage every event with a command-grade operations suite, then bill and report in a click.
- Get booked. A verified profile that ranks for the disciplines you actually do.
- Run the operation. Posts, shifts, live board, briefings, reports, all in one system.
- Grow. Subcontract, white-label reports, and turn agencies into repeat clients.
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The ultimate operating system for the protection and security industries.
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