01
Listen before coding.
Every feature in SENTINEL traces back to a conversation with someone who lived the problem. Not a market study, not a competitor analysis — a 90-minute call with a person whose week was ruined by the gap we're closing.
— THE COALITION · MANIFESTO —
C'est une coalition,pas une entreprise.
SENTINEL est bâti par des chauffeurs, marchands, coordonnateurs et ingénieurs qui refusent d'attendre que des étrangers réparent nos industries.
— 01 / FIVE PRINCIPLES —
Not a company.A discipline.
02
Software is on payroll.
We don't sell “productivity tools.” Seven specialized agents do the work of an order desk, a dispatcher, a compliance officer, a billing clerk — without burning out the team you already have. That's the bar.
03
Safety is not a feature.
Triple-verified bids. 30-minute HOS safety margins. Emergency mode that auto-activates when options run out. Critical alerts that cannot be dismissed. These aren't toggles. They're the spine of the platform.
04
No one gets blocked.
When a system fails, a driver still has to deliver, a merchant still has to close. Errors escalate up the chain — but the operator on the ground never stops. That promise is hard. We keep it anyway.
05
Operators write the roadmap.
Investors hear our updates. Operators set our priorities. The Q3 2026 cohort decides what ships in Q4. The Q1 2027 cohort decides what ships in Q2 2027. That cadence isn't a marketing line — it's how the company is wired.
— 02 / WHO'S IN —
Four archetypes.One table.
DRIVERS
Drivers
Professional haulers and solo drivers who know what dispatch software gets wrong. Built around the cab, not around a SaaS dashboard.
MERCHANTS
Merchants
Independent sellers — materials, parts, vehicles — losing 10+ hours weekly to broken order workflows. The product saves those hours — and gives them back to the floor.
COORDINATORS
Coordinators
Transport coordinators managing fleets with spreadsheets and group texts. We give them an actual command surface.
ENGINEERS
Engineers
Product builders who refuse to ship before listening. They learn an industry before they touch a keyboard.
— FOUNDER NOTE —
“I've been hauling across North America for 10+ years. I watched merchants lose hours, drivers get blocked by software that didn't understand the road, and dispatchers fight tools built by people who'd never seen the inside of a cab. SENTINEL is the answer those people deserved a decade ago.”
— YAOVI HOUNDENOU · FOUNDER & COALITION LEAD · MONTRÉAL
If you recognizeyourself here —
The cohort is small on purpose. The road in is short. Pick the door that fits.