As businesses adopt dozens of cloud applications, controlling who has access to which tools has become a growing operational burden. A typical 60-person company may run more than 40 separate SaaS subscriptions, frequently tracked by hand in spreadsheets and managed by a founder or operations lead rather than a trained administrator. Onboarding, offboarding and periodic access reviews are often manual, creating security exposure when departing employees retain access and wasted spend on licenses no one uses.

ShiftControl connects directly to Google Workspace and maps every SaaS application linked to each employee account. Administrators can grant and revoke access across connected tools automatically, view license usage in a single dashboard, and complete offboarding through one workflow rather than a manual checklist. The platform applies AI to surface unused licenses, flag accounts that retain access after an employee leaves, and recommend access changes as roles shift. According to the company, businesses most commonly encounter these problems as they scale toward 40 to 50 employees, the point at which informal processes begin to break down.

By consolidating access management, SaaS visibility, permissions and compliance reporting in one place, the platform is intended to give operators an auditable record of who can reach which systems and why. The company positions the product as an alternative to legacy identity and access tooling, which is typically priced for larger organizations and assumes an in-house IT function.

ShiftControl was founded by former colleagues from ExpressVPN, the consumer privacy company that grew to more than 1,500 employees during their tenure. Co-founders Dan Gericke and Julien Monguillot led technical and operational scaling across seven global offices, an experience that exposed the limitations of legacy IT tooling built for large enterprises with established IT departments.

"The typical IT stack was designed for a different kind of company. It is expensive, it requires a large team to run and maintain, and it runs on older technology," said Dan Gericke, Co-founder of ShiftControl. "A growing number of small and mid-sized businesses run on Google Workspace, do not have a full IT team and expect their tools to be AI-native by default. We rebuilt the product for them, so the right access reaches the right tools automatically and operations stay under control as a company grows."

The platform is available to businesses on Google Workspace, with a discounted plan for early-stage startups. ShiftControl currently serves customers across London, Hong Kong and North America, including Blackpanda, GetGo and The Majurity Trust. Additional product information is available at https://shiftcontrol.io/, and details of the startup plan are available at https://shiftcontrol.io/startups.

About ShiftControl

ShiftControl is a Singapore-based IT and business automation company founded in 2023. The company builds an AI-native IT operations platform that runs natively on Google Workspace, helping small and mid-sized businesses manage employee access, SaaS applications and IT operations without a dedicated IT team. Its mission is to make IT operations simple enough for any business to run on its own.