Trust infrastructure for freight execution
Who We Are
The freight industry has policies, SOPs, and compliance systems designed to ensure the right people move or access freight under approved procedures. In practice, the link between policy and action is frontline judgment: people accessing information, interpreting context, and making decisions under time pressure. When exceptions occur or operating tempo increases, improvisation fills the gap. That gap creates exploitable weaknesses. Pilferage, strategic theft, and straight theft are different outcomes of the same structural problem: rules exist, but enforcement depends on people rather than systems. Historically, this showed up primarily as the cost of mistakes — mis-pulls, delays, inefficiency, and safety incidents. Today, the same gap is increasingly visible as cargo theft. Level5Fleet exists to close that gap by making trust explicit and enforceable in execution. We build the trust infrastructure for freight.
What we mean by trust infrastructure
Trust infrastructure is a category we define. In freight execution, trust is an operational property: the ability for rules to be applied consistently at the moment decisions turn into actions. That requires three things to be explicit and connected: • Identity — who is making a request, and on behalf of which company • Authorization — what they are permitted to do • Enforcement — ensuring that those actions, and only those actions, can occur Historically, this property was ensured through people: interpreting instructions, coordinating exceptions, and compensating for ambiguity. By making the property explicit and formalized, it becomes something systems can evaluate and enforce — allowing decisions to be automated and applied consistently at execution time. Trust infrastructure makes decisions verifiable and enforceable — not by adding oversight, but by embedding rules directly into execution.
Enforcement at the point of responsibility
Freight execution involves different responsibilities: Some roles decide whether a pickup, access, or in-transit change should be allowed. Some roles own or operate physical equipment and are accountable for custody. Others coordinate movement across handoffs, yards, and docks at scale. Under routine conditions, these responsibilities tend to align through process and experience. As exceptions increase and tempo rises, that alignment becomes harder to maintain — and gaps begin to appear between decisions and outcomes. Level5Fleet connects these responsibilities through a shared enforcement layer, so decisions are not only recorded — they become enforceable conditions in execution.
What Level5Fleet is — and isn’t
Level5Fleet builds Admiral - the enforcement layer that implements this infrastructure in practice — designed to keep custody rules intact across handoffs, exceptions, and operating pressure. Admiral connects identity, authorization, and enforcement so decisions don’t just get recorded, reviewed, or forwarded — they become enforceable conditions in execution. Admiral is not a visibility dashboard, a monitoring or alerting system, a lock-and-key security product, or a trust score or onboarding-only verification tool. Admiral makes approved actions happen — and prevents everything else — without relying on constant supervision or interpretation. We work with shippers, carriers, operators, and partners who need freight to follow the rules automatically, not by hope, paperwork, or constant oversight.
Leadership Team
Dr. Harold Ishebabi
CEO & Co-Founder
Peter Stroud
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Alan Cornford
Corporate Secretary & Co-Founder
Prof. Christophe Bobda
Director of Research & Co-Founder
Board of Advisors
Dan Johnson
Co-Founder and Principal at Cargo Velocity
John Allen
Former VP of Premium Operations at FlexiVan
Thomas Walsh
VP of Tax in the Value Creation Team at Vector Capital
William McKinnon
Former President at Canadian Alliance Terminals
Sara Eslami, CPA, MBA
CFO at Schill Insurance
Trust Infrastructure for Freight