The product

Seven layers. One daily app.

Same platform in every city. Local content, languages, and partnerships tuned for the place you actually live.

Events

What's happening near you today - gatherings, meetups, and city moments worth showing up for.

Work & gigs

Find work, side income, and certified opportunities matched to your skills and language.

Group chats

Connect by neighborhood, language, profession, interest, or life stage.

Local AI

An assistant that actually knows your city and language - better than generic chatbots.

Profile

A portable record of your skills, work history, and certifications.

Safety layer

Multilingual emergency alerts, SOS, scam awareness, and embassy contacts.

Travel & event mode

Activates when you visit another SHIELD city or your city hosts a major event.

Who pays

Users access free. Institutions fund the infrastructure.

The organizations accountable for the people ShieldBC serves are the ones who pay for it, because the cost of failure is theirs.

Governments

Reduce political and legal exposure when migrants, non-English speakers, and visitors are at risk.

Employers

Certified worker protection infrastructure aligned with Gulf and global labor reforms.

Embassies

Direct multilingual channel for consular communication and diaspora protection.

Universities

International student wellbeing - increasingly tied to accreditation and rankings.

Event organizers

Multilingual safety and crowd infrastructure for AFCON, expos, and major gatherings.

Foundations

Migrant and refugee protection mandates, delivered at city scale.

Flexi & the 46 corridors

Certified ethical labor infrastructure, embedded in the app.

Underneath ShieldBC runs Flexi, a family-owned labor placement firm with 15 years of continental operations and IOM IRIS certification. Flexi powers the work layer across 46 mapped corridors between Africa and the Gulf, Europe, North America, and Asia.

Corridors mapped

15 yrs

Operating history

IRIS

IOM certified

Flexi × ShieldBC

"ShieldBC makes Flexi findable. Flexi makes ShieldBC operationally credible to governments and employers."

Africa → Gulf

18 corridors

Africa → Europe

12 corridors

Africa → N. America

9 corridors

Africa → Asia

7 corridors

→ Pre-departure orientation in-language
→ In-country SOS and embassy routing
→ Contract, wage, and grievance tracking

See where the product is deployed first.

The languages we serve