We build systems in which artificial intelligence and people check each other's work, so that what matters is noticed and what happens next is decided by a person.

The name is the thesis

Ontofrom ontological

An ontology is a structured description of what exists and how those things relate. Our systems do not simply detect noises and shapes. They keep a structured picture of what is happening - an event, who is involved, the evidence, and what it probably means - and reason over that picture.

Hybridartificial and human intelligence

Each supplements the other and cancels the other's weaknesses. That is the operating principle of the whole company, and every product follows from it.

Machines do not tire

A person watching forty camera feeds at three in the morning will miss things. Software will not look away.

Machines have no judgement

A model can tell you a loud impulse happened. It cannot tell you that this shop always slams that door at closing time.

So neither is trusted alone

The machine decides what is worth a person's attention. The person decides what to do about it.

  1. Capture what is happening, as structured evidence.
  2. Analyse it with AI and a person, each checking the other.
  3. Act - with a human decision, and the evidence attached.

Products

OmniPercept

Safety systems that listen and watch, then hand a person the evidence.

MAP-SPIES

A personal safety app for Android. It uses the phone's own sensors - motion, sound, speech, a personal panic phrase and a panic button - and alerts your emergency contacts with your location and the evidence.

In pilot - not yet public

PI-SEAS

For business premises and control rooms. A small computer on site listens and watches through existing cameras and microphones, and sends the control room a short evidence package when something looks wrong - not a continuous stream.

In pilot - partner access only

StreetMirror

Reality, quantified: a visual census of the physical environment.

OOH

Out-of-home advertising: what each billboard face is really doing on the road - its actual condition, and how the physical world shapes its visibility.

Open StreetMirror OOH

Insurance

Property integrity for banks and insurers: condition indicators and scoring for physical assets, monitored over time.

Open StreetMirror Insurance

ForecastCOPS

Our first product.

Crime forecasting

Three steps: capture the data, forecast where and what is likely to happen, then measure how accurate the forecast turned out to be - so the next one is better.

Open ForecastCOPS