Built by a software architect and a protective operations chief who were tired of the inefficiencies of maintaining a singular mission thread.
TimeZero started as a series of after-action debriefs between a software architect and a protective operations leader. One saw fractured telemetry and stale data inside the systems designed to support operators. The other ran protective details across Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, and the U.S., stitching together radios, notebooks, and memory to keep principals safe. Together they asked: what if every decision, note, and replay lived in one feed; available the second it happened?
From field notes to a single timeline
Protective operations rarely fail because of courage. They fail because information is scattered: chats in one app, maps in another, reports written days later. While working on mission software, the technologist behind TimeZero kept seeing operators print screenshots just to brief leadership. On protective assignments, the operations lead saw teams burn hours stitching together notes and GPS coordinates after a long night in the field. TimeZero is our answer to both problems.
The name comes from how operators log events: time-zero is the moment a mission kicks off, where everything is in sync. Our goal is to keep every input, decision, and action anchored to that moment; live, searchable, and replayable.
Mission snapshot
72-hour surveillance mission
Three operators used a prototype of TimeZero across a multi-day surveillance detail in 2025. They exported a mission-ready report seven minutes after it terminated; work that used to take a week of recollection, transcription, and formatting.
Field pedigree meets mission software
TimeZero blends decades of protective operations experience with platform engineering. The operations lead has spent nearly twenty years protecting diplomats, military leaders, and high-net-worth families across the globe, trained at the Protective Services School, Special Reaction Team Course, and the Anti-terrorism Program Managers Course. They’ve managed quick reaction forces, evacuated dignitaries, and taught discreet close protection to new agents.
On the software side, our technologist shipped Machine Learning developer tooling, Model Inference platforms, and decision-support systems at Microsoft and for national security customers, watching operators rely on screenshots, spreadsheets, and multiple apps to fill the gap between tools. TimeZero is the bridge: a live mission log, replay capability, and automated reporting built together from day one.
What we’re building next
TimeZero is growing from a mission timeline into the operations layer for protective and investigative teams. We’re expanding features to include structured training replays, and opening the platform for expert-developed workflows. Every release is shaped by operators still carrying radios.
Join the next chapter of TimeZero.
If your team is living in message threads, spreadsheets, and debriefs stretched across days, we’d love to talk. TimeZero can onboard a protective detail in under a week.