You don't need to rip and replace. A step-by-step approach to going live across sites in days, not months.
The biggest myth about adding AI to your cameras is that it requires a forklift upgrade — new hardware, new wiring, a six-month project. It doesn't. Here's the rollout we've seen work, again and again, across sites of every size.
Step 1: Start with one site
Pick a single location with a clear pain point — after-hours theft, a busy dock, a safety-sensitive floor. Connecting existing cameras takes hours, not weeks, and a focused first site gives you a clean before-and-after.
Step 2: Tune what matters
Define the handful of events you actually care about and who should hear about them. Resist the urge to alert on everything — the goal is signal, not volume.
Step 3: Prove it, then expand
Run the first site for a couple of weeks and measure: fewer false alarms, faster response, incidents caught. With numbers in hand, expanding to the next sites is a copy-paste, not a fresh project.
- Week 1: connect cameras at your first site
- Week 2: tune alerts and routing
- Week 3: review results and lock in your playbook
- Week 4+: roll out to remaining sites from the same template
Teams that start small and measure early roll out faster than teams that try to boil the ocean on day one.
Because it all runs on the cameras you already own, the marginal cost of each new site is small — and the playbook you build on site one carries to every site after it.
