Founders, Don and Brandon Flanagan, set out to establish In Force Technology (“IFT”)  in response to the national rise in active shooter incidents. Our flagship product, IN FORCE911, is designed to reduce police response time, enhance communication among responders, and ultimately save lives. It is our goal to positively impact communities and organizations by creating a safer, more secure environment for teachers to teach, students to learn and employees to work. By partnering with major industry-based organizations, we are on a mission to make our life-saving technology available nationwide.

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The average active shooting situation lasts approximately 5 minutes, with one person shot every 15 seconds (source). But, according to the US Department of Justice, the average national response time to an active shooter incident is 12.5 minutes (source).

Most people don’t realize that when you dial 9-1-1, your call is received by a centralized answering point, before being routed to the local responding agency. This means that the process of routing the initial emergency 9-1-1 call takes anywhere from 2-4 minutes.

Often, it’s too late by the time law enforcement arrives, and statistically speaking, the situation has already ended by the perpetrator either turning the weapon on themself, turning aggression toward law enforcement or fleeing the scene. 

Realizing that traditional 9-1-1 has an inherent delay in the process, IN FORCE911 was developed to empower teachers, faculty and staff the opportunity to launch an alert, via the app, from any device within arms reach. 

The alert is simultaneously sent to local, responding police officers in three points of receipt: directly to computers inside the police cars, the local dispatch/communications center, and to the mobile phones of officers despite duty status and/or location.

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A teacher under this scenario will send an alert, specific to their classroom location, in 10 seconds or less. During live scenarios, we have successfully sent an alert from the classroom to police responders in-field in exactly 4 seconds.

Our target market is public schools in the U.S. and correlating police departments, which equates to about 130,930 schools. This market alone is worth $517 million (Source).  

Other applicable markets for our product include municipal buildings ($68M), places of worship ($921M), colleges and universities ($265M) and private K-12 schools ($125M).

The sum of our entire services addressable market plus our total available market equals approximately $1.8 billion.

IN FORCE911 became publicly available in June of 2018. In the last year, IFT has established major industry-based relationships with the AASA (The National Superintendents Association), with 13,000 members nation-wide, and a non-profit foundation called “I Love U Guys”, which is the leading provider of school safety response training and has partnered with 20,000 schools across North America. 

IFT has a customer presence coast-to-coast and has experienced a customer churn rate of less than 5% year over year. This year, we were actually hand-selected to participate in a formal bid for the state of Florida (worth $8M annually). Among our customer sites, we have installed on college campuses, municipal buildings, county courthouses and notably in Worcester, Massachusetts, which has a school district of 50 public schools and 400+ police officers. We have also deployed in secure government locations in the state of New Hampshire.

IN FORCE911 is a real-time virtual panic button that notifies and communicates a threat from the point of contact, directly to local law enforcement. Once a teacher initiates a threat from their application (which can run on any device, utilizing any mode of connectivity), an alert is sent within 4 seconds, to law enforcement in the field, the local dispatch center and to cell phones.

Officers are immediately notified of the type of threat, location of threat, name of sender and address of threat location. Law enforcement receives critical information specific to the building under threat, including floor plans, emergency operations plans, aerial photos of the campus and integrated IP camera feeds. The initiating school staff may also send real-time information directly to the first responders, along with every other user in the building, allowing first responders to receive information from multiple points of contact.

IFT charges an annual subscription fee to both the school district (or other organization) and the correlationing police agency or agencies. The school district pays a site license of approximately $3,000 per school which renews annually (SaaS), as the agreement runs a three-year term. The price increases by 8% annually to account for any major software enhancements.

Law enforcement is charged an annual subscription fee determined by the number of sworn officers. Often times an agency of up to 25 sworn will pay an annual fee of $1,200.  Strategically, once IFT sells to a local or county law enforcement agency, the sales teams will pursue every available opportunity thereafter, including municipal buildings, courthouses, private schools, colleges, and other at-risk facilities.

The average sale is roughly $20,000 based on a three-year contract for an ACV of $60,000. The COGS are only $1,200 monthly/ $14,400 annually, meaning margins are in the high 90th percentile.

We are the only all-inclusive school safety application for school staff and law enforcement. Our technology can be used through any device and with any mode of connectivity (cellular data, WiFi, ethernet) and has indefinite storage capabilities. It is CJIS-5 compliant and FIPS 140-2 compliant. Data is secured and court-admissible under chain of custody and encryption protocols.

Our law enforcement data and information sharing interoperability platform is one-of-a-kind, and our reverse alert notification enables law enforcement to send a targeted alert from the agency to key school administration of an imminent  threat in the area.

In Force Technology’s goal in deploying its software is to reduce police response time, increase communications and save lives. We aim to seek an exit opportunity within the next 3 to 5 years. Given the current growth trajectories, market demand, and scheduled software innovations, the company believes this is a very conservative outlook.

IFT was founded by a father-son duo, both with incredibly unique backgrounds and extensive experience in their fields. Recently we hired a chief financial officer whose expertise, guidance and processes have already improved our efficiency and effectiveness. We’ve also brought on Dr. Joseph Erardi, the former school superintendent of Newton, CT, who is one of the most honored and awarded school superintendents in the nation and regarded as the foremost authority on school safety and violence prevention. His contacts and reputation alone have driven new prospective customers to IFT. His background, expertise and vision have made us stronger.

We believe IFT is offering a tremendous opportunity to invest in a high margin SaaS business, with the ability to save countless lives and make a major difference for future generations. The company has successfully raised institutional money to date, and has demonstrated its ability to grow, scale and innovate. IFT has high margins, low COGS and a churn rate of less than roughly 5% year over year. Given the company's’ success and demonstrated ability to sell and grow, despite a global pandemic, we believe IFT is on a path of success. Join us and become part of the change our country deserves!