Calvis vs Trackforce Valiant: the short answer
These two products solve different problems, and most people searching for a "Trackforce Valiant alternative" actually want one or the other, not both.
Trackforce Valiant is workforce-management software. It is built for a security agency that already employs guards and needs to schedule them, track patrol tours, log incidents, run payroll-adjacent timekeeping, and bill clients. You buy a license, configure it, and run your own operation on top of it. The guards are yours.
Calvis is an on-demand marketplace. It does not sell you software to manage a guard force you already have. It vets and matches independently licensed local security agencies so a buyer can post a shift, compare qualified options in one place, and have a licensed officer show up. Scheduling, GPS-verified tour logging, billing, and oversight come built into the marketplace at no separate license cost, but the core value is the staffing and the verified supply, not a back-office tool you administer yourself.
So the honest framing is this. If you run a guard company and need an operating system, Trackforce Valiant (or one of its peers) is the right category. If you are a property owner, facilities manager, dealership, dispensary, venue, or operator who needs licensed guards on site and does not want to build or babysit a guard force, Calvis is the on-demand option. This guide covers both sides so you can tell which problem you have.
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What Trackforce Valiant actually is
Trackforce Valiant is the result of several security-technology companies (Trackforce, Valiant, Guardtek, and related products) consolidating into one enterprise platform. It targets the supply side of the industry: mid-size and large security firms that field dozens to thousands of officers.
A typical Trackforce Valiant deployment gives an agency:
- •Scheduling and dispatch. Build rosters, assign officers to posts, handle shift swaps and open-shift coverage.
- •Guard tour and patrol tracking. NFC tags, QR checkpoints, or geofenced wands that prove an officer walked a route.
- •Incident reporting. Standardized digital reports, photo attachments, and audit trails for client-facing documentation.
- •Time and attendance. Clock-in verification feeding into payroll and client billing.
- •Compliance and certification tracking. Flags for expiring guard licenses, training hours, and post-order acknowledgments.
It is a serious enterprise product, and for an established agency with a full operations team it can be the system of record. The trade-off is that it is exactly that: a system you operate. You still recruit, license, train, schedule, supervise, insure, and retain the guards. The software organizes that labor; it does not supply it. Implementation typically involves onboarding, configuration, admin training, and a recurring per-user or per-site license fee.
What Calvis is, and what it is not
Calvis is a marketplace that connects buyers with licensed security agencies. It is not a security agency itself, it does not employ the guards, and it does not hold the licenses. Every officer placed through Calvis works for an independently licensed local agency, and that agency's license is verified against the relevant state regulator (for example BSIS in California or DPS in Texas) before the agency appears as an option and on an ongoing basis after.
The buyer experience is the opposite of buying and configuring software:
- •You describe the coverage you need: location, hours, armed or unarmed, recurring or one-time.
- •The marketplace matches qualified, license-verified agencies in your area.
- •You compare real options with published, flat hourly rates and visible credentials, then book.
- •A licensed officer shows up. GPS patrol verification, shift logs, and billing are handled in your dashboard.
There is nothing to license, install, or administer. Scheduling and oversight tools are included because the marketplace needs them to run, but they exist to serve the booking, not to be sold to you as a separate seat-based product. The thing you are actually buying is verified, on-demand staffing with transparent pricing.
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Side-by-side comparison
| Factor | Trackforce Valiant | Calvis |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Guard-management software (SaaS) | On-demand staffing marketplace |
| Primary user | Security agencies / operators | Buyers who need guards on site |
| Provides the guards? | No, you employ them | Yes, via licensed local agencies |
| Who holds the license? | Your agency | The independent agency you book |
| Pricing model | Per-user / per-site license fee | Flat, published hourly guard rate |
| Scheduling & tours | Core feature you configure | Included with every booking |
| Implementation | Onboarding + admin training | None, book and go |
| Best for | Running an existing guard force | Getting licensed coverage fast |
| Commitment | Software contract | Single shift to recurring, no lock-in |
The table makes the split clear. Trackforce Valiant is bought by the side of the market that supplies security. Calvis is used by the side that consumes it. A handful of larger agencies use both: management software internally and a marketplace like Calvis to flex up when they catch a contract they cannot staff from their own bench.
When Trackforce Valiant is the right call
Choose enterprise guard-management software if most of the following are true:
- •You already employ guards. You have a roster, payroll runs, and supervisors. You need to organize that workforce, not source one.
- •You bill end clients yourself. You own the customer relationship and need client-facing incident reports, tour proof, and timekeeping that ties to your invoices.
- •You have an operations team. Someone owns scheduling, compliance tracking, and the software itself day to day.
- •Scale justifies the overhead. At dozens to thousands of officers, the per-seat cost and configuration effort pay back through efficiency.
If that is you, your search is really among guard-management platforms, and you should evaluate Trackforce Valiant against its direct peers on scheduling depth, tour hardware support, reporting flexibility, and total license cost. Calvis is not a substitute for that software, because Calvis does not try to run your internal guard force.
When Calvis is the better fit
Choose the on-demand marketplace if most of the following are true:
- •You need guards, not a tool. You are a dealership, dispensary, office park, retail operator, venue, HOA, or facilities manager who needs licensed officers on site and does not want to become a staffing company to get them.
- •You want speed. Marketplace matching gets a licensed officer booked quickly, including same-week or emergency coverage, without a software rollout.
- •You want price transparency. Flat, published hourly rates beat opaque enterprise quotes. You see the rate and the guard's credentials before you commit.
- •You want flexibility. Book a single overnight shift, a weekend, or ongoing recurring coverage. No long-term software contract and no commitment to keep a permanent guard force on your books.
- •You do not want licensing or compliance risk on your shoulders. Every booking routes through an independently licensed agency whose credentials are verified, so the regulatory accountability sits with a properly licensed provider, not with you.
This is the core reason the marketplace model exists. Most businesses that need security are not in the security business. Building an in-house team or licensing enterprise software to manage one is the wrong altitude for the problem. For a fuller breakdown of that build-versus-buy decision, see our guide on in-house vs. contract security guards.
The transparency difference
The single most common frustration buyers report with the traditional model, whether they are licensing software or signing with a single agency, is opacity. Enterprise software pricing is quote-driven and tiered. Single-agency staffing contracts often bury the real bill rate, lock you into minimums, and make it hard to know whether you are paying a fair market rate.
Calvis publishes flat rates. As a reference point, unarmed officers in the network run roughly $29.60/hr, armed officers around $38.21/hr, and armed coverage with mobile patrol vehicle access near $59.68/hr, with the exact rate visible before you book. Because multiple licensed agencies compete for your shift in one place, you are comparing qualified options on rate and credentials rather than taking a single vendor's number on faith.
We do not publish competitor pricing here because enterprise software and single-agency contracts are negotiated case by case and any number we quoted would be a guess. The point is structural, not a specific dollar figure: a transparent marketplace shows you the rate up front; a quote-driven model does not.
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How vetting works on Calvis
Because Calvis supplies the staffing rather than just the software, vetting is part of the product. Software you run yourself assumes you handle vetting; a marketplace has to verify supply before it lists it.
Every agency in the network is checked against state regulators for a current license. Individual guard credentials, training records, and background-check status are verified and surfaced in your dashboard before an officer arrives. Licensing is always attributed to the agency and its state regulator, never claimed by the marketplace itself. If you are weighing any provider, the questions you should ask are the same ones we hold the network to, and we walk through them in how to vet a security guard company.
For buyers who want to see how the network stacks up against named providers in their category, the best security companies hub lays out the comparison landscape, and industry-specific coverage for commercial properties and automotive lots shows what verified, on-demand staffing looks like in practice.
The bottom line
Trackforce Valiant and Calvis are not really competitors. They sit on opposite sides of the security market.
If you run a guard company and need a back-office operating system, enterprise guard-management software is your category, and Trackforce Valiant is a credible option to evaluate against its peers. If you are a business that needs licensed guards on the ground without building or managing a force, an on-demand marketplace is the right tool, and that is what Calvis is built to be: vetted, license-verified local agencies matched to your shift, with flat published pricing and no software to administer.
The deciding question is simple. Do you want to manage guards, or do you want guards managed for you? Answer that and the choice is obvious.
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