Intelligence Behind the Lens

Cameras that tell you the story of what's happening.

Most cameras record. Some draw boxes. Pixonn watches every feed and describes, in plain language, what is actually going on, while it is going on. The AI does the watching; people supervise.

Working end-to-end prototype Patent pending
Pixonn · narrating Illustration
  1. A man in a dark jacket walks up to the bike rack outside the shop.
  2. He crouches beside a grey bicycle. He did not arrive on it.
  3. He takes a handheld tool from his jacket. It is an angle grinder.
  4. Sparks at the rack. He is cutting the lock.
  5. ALERT · Theft in progress. Operator notified.

Cameras everywhere, nobody watching.

Video is the most underused asset an organization owns. It gets pulled up after something has gone wrong, and rarely while there is still time to do anything about it.

Millionsspent on cameras nobody watchesThe hardware is everywhere. The attention is not.
Petabytesof footage stored and never viewedWritten to disk, kept for a while, then overwritten.
After the factis when video gets usedIt rarely prevents a bad outcome. It mostly documents one.
01

People can't watch it all

One operator, a wall of feeds, a long night. Human attention does not scale to a fleet of cameras.

02

Analytics only know a fixed list

Today's alerts are limited to perimeter protection and a set of pre-trained object types. Anything else goes by unnoticed.

03

Investigations mean scrubbing

Finding one moment means dragging through timelines by hand, so the operational and security insight in that footage stays locked up.

A label is not a story.

Take the cycle-store frame at the top of this page. Here is what each kind of system has to say about it.

A recorder

Says nothing

[ recording ]

The footage is there if someone reports a bicycle missing and has the time to go looking.

Conventional analytics

Names the objects

person 0.94
bicycle 0.88

Both are permitted here. No rule matches, so nothing is raised. The tool in his hand isn't in its vocabulary.

Pixonn

Tells you what is happening

Alert · Theft in progressA man is cutting a bicycle lock with an angle grinder. Crouched at the rack for 40 seconds, sparks visible, bicycle not his on arrival.

Nobody anticipated this scenario or wrote a rule for it. The output is a sentence an operator can act on.

Why it can do that: Pixonn is built on vision-language models. They understand a complete scene, the behaviour of the things in it and how those things interact, and they describe all of it in rich, ordinary language.

As it happens, and on demand.

The same understanding of every scene drives both alerting and search. You describe what matters in a sentence instead of picking from a menu.

As it happens

Alerts arrive as sentences, and you write the conditions yourself.

→ "Alert me if a fight breaks out."
  • Rule-based and prompt-based alerts, with no retraining
  • Severe events get extra scrutiny before they reach an operator, keeping false alarms low

On demand

Search weeks of footage the way you search the internet.

→ "Someone wearing a red shirt carrying a small brown box."
  • Rich descriptions of people, objects and actions
  • Questions that span cameras: "Where did this person enter the building?"
The status quo

Human-managed, AI-assisted

An operator watches a wall of feeds while software flags a handful of pre-set events. Coverage is capped by how many screens one person can watch.

Team

Built by people who've shipped in this industry.

Pixonn pairs senior operating experience inside the video security industry with hands-on engineering for AI that has to run on real hardware, in the field, over bad connections.

Sean Weiss

Sean Weiss

Co-founder & CEO

Sean has spent his career leading engineering organizations, most recently as Head of Embedded Video AI at Motorola Solutions — one of the largest players in video security and access control. An entrepreneur and inventor, he leads Pixonn's strategy, partnerships and commercial work.

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Donovan Webb

Donovan Webb

Co-founder & Inventor

Donovan is an embedded systems and edge-AI engineer who builds and maintains fleets of connected devices in the field — firmware, on-device machine learning and the unglamorous work of keeping hardware running over unreliable links. He leads Pixonn's technical work and authored the patent-pending approach the product is built on.

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Contact

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Investors
Currently raising. Deck and technical detail available under NDA.
Market
Security first. Then oil & gas, warehouses and industrial sites, and retail.