SHIELD scans every contractor and off-payroll engagement, scores status risk against live directives, and flags the ones that need a second look — before HMRC opens an enquiry, not after.
SHIELD doesn't wait for an HMRC letter to tell you there's a problem. It's already looking.
Contractor and off-payroll engagements are read continuously, not reviewed once at onboarding and forgotten.
Engagement scanningEach engagement is scored for IR35 status risk against live compliance directives, with the evidence behind the score kept, not just a verdict.
Risk scoringAnything above your risk threshold is flagged for review — SHIELD surfaces the risk, a human makes the call on what changes.
Flagged-risk routingAny business engaging contractors or off-payroll workers carries IR35 exposure whether or not anyone's checked it recently.
Start Your AssessmentAgencies placing contractors carry status risk across every placement, not just the ones someone remembered to check.
Start Your AssessmentOffer ongoing status-risk monitoring to clients without building the scoring engine yourself.
Partner Programme"IR35 liability doesn't land on the day of the mistake. It lands on the day HMRC reviews the engagement, sometimes years after it ended."
Continuous SHIELD scans engagements on an ongoing basis, not once at onboarding"A risk score with the evidence behind it is something you can act on. A gut feeling about IR35 status is not."
Evidenced Every score is backed by the directive evidence that produced itSHIELD is the IR35 compliance agent inside SME Growth Team. It scans contractor and off-payroll engagement setups, scores IR35 status risk, and routes flagged risk for review, before an engagement becomes an HMRC enquiry.
A wrong status determination shifts tax liability, National Insurance and potential penalties onto the engaging business, often years after the contract ended. SHIELD flags the risk while the engagement is still live.
SHIELD sits in the PROTECT department alongside ZARA (Companies House compliance), SENTINEL (insurance) and WARDEN (licence/regulatory) — the compliance layer that runs before a risk becomes a cost.
SHIELD is part of the PROTECT department inside SME Growth Team's compliance layer.