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The mandate widened, the team didn't

The argument Rish Gupta made to loss-prevention audiences this summer: retail asked its security teams to cover more stores, more footage and more kinds of incident, and gave them cameras that only watch.

By Daniel Reyes · Retail, Customer Speak

Inside a small convenience store, two men seen from behind at the counter, surrounded by shelves and racks of snacks

A $5,000 fender at the fuel island

Wayne Transports runs 800 trucks out of yards the size of football fields. Its IT director on the damage nobody could explain, the LPR quote that did not fit the budget, and using cameras to back up the e-logs.

By Allison Lilly · Customer Speak, Agentic VMS

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Five vehicles recovered in an hour

When the alarm went off at a Don Franklin dealership, the IT director had footage on responding officers' phones within four minutes. The auto group says it has since saved or recovered more than $1 million in assets.

By Allison Lilly · Customer Speak, Retail

Aerial view of a car dealership and its lot full of vehicles

A decision framework from a detective

Rish Gupta says every big call at Spot AI runs through one line of Sherlock Holmes. The same four steps are a sensible way to decide what a video agent is allowed to do on its own.

By Daniel Reyes · Engineering Corner, Customer Speak

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Why AP needs to think outside shoplifting

A retailer was missing $5 million in coffee. It turned up expiring in a distribution centre. Khris Hamlin of RILA on moving asset protection from cops-and-robbers to total retail loss.

By Allison Lilly · Retail, Customer Speak

Checkout register and card terminal in a retail store

On-prem is the blocker

Whether the model runs in the building or in someone else's data center is now a procurement gate. In the sales calls it was raised by a meat plant, a clinic, a laundromat chain, an integrator in Nigeria and a telecom reading the EU AI Act.

By Daniel Reyes · Customer Speak, Data Centers

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Cash shrink from six percent to one

All Star Elite, an apparel retailer, cut cash shrink from 6 percent to 1 and halved investigation time. Then the store teams used the same cameras to decide where the Kobe jersey goes.

By Allison Lilly · Customer Speak, Retail

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Two million pounds of fish a day, one login

Silver Bay Seafoods replaced a patchwork of plant camera systems with one. The IT director's account covers production lines, food-safety audits, and the abandoned cars that kept turning up on the ferry.

By Allison Lilly · Customer Speak, Manufacturing

Workers beside stacked orange crates of fresh fish on the floor of a processing plant

What buyers ask before they buy a video agent

The inbound email has changed shape. It now arrives as a numbered list: false-positive governance, human-in-the-loop, auditability, on-prem options, validation paperwork, and a pilot whose length the buyer has already decided.

By Daniel Reyes · Customer Speak, Manufacturing

Workers at an electronics assembly line under stack lights and coiled orange air hoses in a factory

Five users at a time was the whole problem

The Nashville Rescue Mission's old camera server let five people log in at once. Its IT manager on why the shelter switched, and why the deciding features were price and thumbnails.

By Allison Lilly · Customer Speak, Agentic VMS

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