About
Who's behind RenewalShield
A compliance tool you found through a cold email deserves more scrutiny than most software, not less. This page is everything you would need to decide whether to trust it.
I'm Derek. RenewalShield is me.
Not a team, not a company with a sales floor — one developer in Tampa, Florida. I lead with that because it is the first thing a scam operation would hide, and because you should know exactly how large the organisation behind your compliance alerts actually is.
Write to derek@renewalshield.us and a human answers, usually the same day. There is no ticket queue to escalate through, because there is nobody to escalate to.
Why this exists
Nobody misses a renewal on purpose.
SAM.gov registrations expire every year, there is no grace period, and expired means ineligible the same day. Renewals take two to six weeks to clear entity validation, IRS TIN matching and CAGE review, so a contractor who starts on the deadline is already weeks late.
Almost nobody misses it because they stopped caring. They miss it because the one person tracking the date got busy, changed roles, or left — and the spreadsheet that held it does not escalate, does not follow up, and does not notice when the status changes.
So I built something small that watches the date instead. That is the entire origin story. There is no venture round and no roadmap deck behind it.
What it is, plainly
You give it a UEI. It reads the public SAM.gov record every day and emails you before the registration lapses. The free version watches one registration, costs nothing, and needs no account. The paid version starts warning you earlier and watches your certifications, clearances and insurance dates as well.
That is the whole product. It is deliberately small, and I would rather it stay honest about that than pretend to be a platform.
If my email felt off
Your suspicion is correct. Keep it.
There is a well-worn racket where third parties email federal contractors about their SAM expiration and charge hundreds or thousands of dollars for a renewal that is free to do yourself. My outreach has exactly the same shape: a stranger, your UEI, your expiration date, and a link that is not a .gov.
I am not going to talk you out of that instinct, because on any other Tuesday it is the right one. The only honest move available to me is to hand you the tools to tell the difference — including the ones that would expose me if I were lying.
Four commitments
And how to check each one yourself.
A promise is worth what it costs to break. Each of these is written so you can catch me if I ever do.
I will never ask for your SAM.gov login
RenewalShield reads the public Entity Management API — the same record you can pull yourself without signing in anywhere.
Verify it by using the free checker without an account. It returns your status and expiration date having never asked you for a credential.
I will never charge you to renew
Renewing at SAM.gov is free and always has been. What I sell is a reminder, not a renewal, and I have no ability to renew anything on your behalf.
Verify it by reading the guide on whether SAM renewal is free. Anyone quoting you $300 to $3,000 for the renewal itself is the thing that guide is about.
I will never claim to be the government
Not SAM.gov, not GSA, not any federal agency, in an email, on a call, or anywhere on this site. RenewalShield is an independent tool with no federal affiliation whatsoever.
Verify it by checking the sender on anything you get from me: it is always derek@renewalshield.us, never a lookalike .gov domain.
I will never invent a customer
No fabricated testimonials, no borrowed logos, no “trusted by 500+ contractors” until it is true — at which point I will say the real number.
Verify it by asking. Email me how many paying customers there are and you will get the actual figure, whatever it happens to be that week.
Verify me
Three channels I do not control the answer on.
Anyone can write a convincing About page. These are harder to fake, because someone else hosts them.
Based in Tampa, Florida. Every commercial email I send carries a valid postal address, as the law requires.
The honest part
What I would rather you hear from me than find out later.
RenewalShield is new. I am a solo developer currently operating as a sole proprietor, not an incorporated company. There is no support team, no SOC 2 report, and no long list of logos I can show you.
None of that is hidden anywhere in the terms, and I am not going to let you discover it later and reasonably wonder what else I left out.
What I can promise is that the alerts work, that I answer my own email, and that I will tell you the truth about what this does and does not do — including when the answer is unflattering.
Check your own registration first
Before you decide anything about me. No signup, no card, no credentials — it reads the same public SAM.gov record you can read yourself.
Check your SAM status free— Derek
derek@renewalshield.us