Built by the operator // Not the consultant
Compliance, built bythe operator wholived in it.
Every regulator speaks a different language: FMCSA, FAA, CMS, OSHA, EPA, state cannabis. Every regulated operator runs a different ops platform: TMS, EHR, ERP, FAA-RM. FileFlo is the compliance layer between them, built by someone who spent years running 30+ aircraft through the pre-audit scramble.
30-min working session · No slide deck · No BDR
Where this came from
30+
Aircraft · Part 135/91 charter + FAA Part 145 repair station
Chad ran operations for that certificate. Every year meant weeks of pre-audit scramble: pulling certificates, maintenance logs, pilot files, and drug-test records out of folders, binders, and spreadsheets before an inspector arrived.
FileFlo was founded in mid-2025, after one too many of those fire drills.
The forty-year problem
The documents existed. We just couldn't find them.
The pain
Audits, inspections, surveys. Same nightmare across every regulated industry: teams scrambling through binders, email threads, shared drives, and side-tabs for certificates while regulators wait at the desk. Compliance has lived in spreadsheets for forty years because no software treated it as primary; it was always a side-effect of HR, payroll, or fleet management.
The stakes
Lost certificates, failed audits, gone businesses. Penalty exposure runs from $16,131 (OSHA serious) to $16,550 (FMCSA per-violation) to CMS termination for healthcare providers to FAA certificate suspension. None of those usually trigger because operators were negligent. They trigger because the document existed and nobody could find it when the inspector asked.
"I've watched good operators lose everything over a missing document that existed. They just couldn't find it. That I can fix."
Operator origin
Career arc, in six chapters.
- 01Education
MBA
Academic foundation. Shaped how he thinks about systems, operations, and where regulatory risk lives inside an org chart.
- 02Athletics
Bull rider + motorcycle racer
Competed professionally on the bull-riding circuit out of Scottsdale and raced motorcycles. Injuries ended the riding career and took the planned military pilot path with it. So he built things instead.
- 03Autonomous trucking
COO
Joined a remote-controlled semi-truck company as COO. Small enough team that he was writing code and building system architecture directly, his first hands-on exposure to regulated freight operations.
- 04Aviation ops
Part 135/91 + FAA Part 145 MRO
Ran operations for a Part 135/91 charter operation and FAA Part 145 repair station with 30+ aircraft. Every year, weeks of pre-audit scramble pulling certificates, maintenance logs, pilot files, and drug-test records from folders, binders, and spreadsheets.
- 05Defense / national security
Autonomous drone systems
Worked on autonomous drone programs in the defense and national security space (Anduril-adjacent program work). A different regulatory axis, but the same documents-in-the-wrong-place problem.
- 06FileFlo
Founder & CEO
Founded mid-2025 after one too many pre-audit fire drills. One place for every compliance document, alerts before things expire, inspector-format audit binders in minutes instead of weeks.
What we built
Four capabilities. One platform.
AI document intelligence
Auto-classifies and extracts data from any compliance document (DQFs, OSHA training certs, CMS provider credentials, EPA manifests, METRC records) against its specific CFR section or state rule.
Multi-agency rule packs
Pre-built rule packs check every employee, asset, location, or pilot against the right regulator's requirements and flag the gaps before an inspector does.
Predictive compliance score
Real-time 0-100 score per location and per department based on expired documents, missing requirements, and incomplete files. Trend lines surface problems before they become violations.
One-click audit binders
Inspector-format binder per regulator. FMCSA, FAA, CMS, OSHA, EPA, state cannabis, exported in the layout the surveyor expects, in 60-180 seconds.
Operating principles
Three things we don't compromise on.
Operator-led.
We don't sell to compliance leads. We are compliance leads. Every product decision is tested against the question: would I have used this at my MRO?
Plain English.
CFR citations and operator language. Not "enterprise-grade compliance solutions" or "intelligent automation platform." If the inspector wouldn't recognize the phrase, we don't use it.
Security in the bones.
AES-256 at rest, role-based access control, tenant data isolation, audit logs. SOC 2 Type II target Q4 2026 / Q1 2027, not yet certified. HIPAA-aware architecture; BAA available upon certification.
The full security posture, including exactly what FileFlo is not yet certified for, is on the security page.
Talk to the founder // Not a BDR
If you'd rather walk through your specific compliance surface, I'll do that call myself.
Chad Griffith, founder of FileFlo. Compliance leads, brokers, and ops directors get a 30-minute working session: pull up your real DQF / CoP / F-tag surface, identify the gaps, decide together whether FileFlo fits. No sales script, no slide deck, no "let me circle back to my team."
What I can go deep on
"I don't enjoy compliance. But I've watched good operators lose everything over a missing document that existed. They just couldn't find it. That I can fix."
About the founder
Built by the operator, not the consultant.
Chad Griffith, Founder & CEO of FileFlo, holds an MBA and competed professionally as a bull rider and motorcycle racer out of Scottsdale before injuries ended that career and the planned military pilot path with it. He went on to serve as COO of a remote-controlled semi-truck company (a team small enough that he wrote code and built system architecture directly), then ran operations for a Part 135/91 charter operation and FAA Part 145 repair station with 30+ aircraft, where every year meant weeks of pre-audit scramble pulling certificates, maintenance logs, pilot files, and drug-test records from folders, binders, and spreadsheets. He later worked on autonomous drone programs in the defense and national security space (Anduril-adjacent program work): a different regulatory axis, but the same documents-in-the-wrong-place problem. He founded FileFlo in mid-2025, after one too many pre-audit fire drills, and is based in Scottsdale, AZ.
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The system Chad built after one too many pre-audit fire drills.
One place for every compliance document. Alerts before things expire. Inspector-format audit binders in minutes, not weeks. Flat monthly pricing sized to your fleet, with a 14-day free trial, no credit card.
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