Built by a veteran operator,
backed by capital that understands trades
30 years of operations leadership, three decades across SaaS and operations-intensive sectors, and a personal mission to fix a $7.6M/year compliance gap.
Tod Shackelford
Tod is an operations-focused executive with 30 years of CEO, COO, and VP-level experience leading and scaling multi-million-dollar enterprises across technology, SaaS, enterprise IT, and operations-intensive sectors. Raised in Manchester, England, he built his career through military service, disciplined execution, and strategic leadership.
Tod is a Black / Afro-Latino founder with Brazilian and Cape Verde roots. FieldCore AI is 100% visible-minority owned and qualifies for the full range of Black entrepreneur funding programs across Canada — FACE, BDC Inclusive Entrepreneurship, PacifiCan, RBC and CIBC Black Entrepreneur Programs.
Based in Coquitlam, British Columbia — directly within the Metro Vancouver construction market that represents FieldCore AI's Phase 1 target geography.
The market is finally ready
Regulatory pressure is real
WorkSafeBC fines jumped to $816,148 per violation in January 2026. Technical Safety BC ran 1,200+ grey-market investigations in 2024 alone. The cost of doing nothing now exceeds the cost of adopting our platform.
Capital has validated the space
Trayd raised $10M (US trades payroll). PermitFlow raised $54M. ServiceTitan is a $9B+ public company. We sit underneath all of them at the credential layer — the last unfilled piece of the trades-tech stack.
AI capability finally enables it
Multi-agent orchestration with LangGraph, Temporal durable workflows, and triple-LLM brain (Claude + GPT-4o + Gemini) makes a 4-round consensus protocol technically feasible — and economically viable — for the first time.
Government wants this built
The CCDA has publicly stated jurisdictions are "working collaboratively to develop digital solutions for immediate verification." We are that solution, built by the private sector while government still waits in committee.