Enterprise video analytics was built for command centres. Foreman was built for you.

Two different questions

An enterprise platform answers the question: "How does a 300-camera campus with a staffed control room manage its video estate?" That is a real question, and those platforms answer it well, with camera walls, operator workflows, integrations and audit trails.

Foreman answers a different question: "How does the owner of a 25-crore factory with 16 cameras and no control room find out about the fire, the intrusion or the idle line while it still matters?" We built Foreman for the factory owner whose alternative was nothing, not for the enterprise command centre. Everything below follows from that choice.

• Enterprise platforms assume a team will operate them. Foreman assumes nobody will.
• Enterprise platforms manage video. Foreman turns video into a handful of alerts worth your attention.
• Both are legitimate. They are for different buyers.

Side by side

• Hardware required — Foreman: None. Runs on your existing Hikvision, CP Plus or Dahua DVR/NVR and most standard CCTV, over normal broadband. Alternative: Servers on site, often new cameras or camera upgrades, sometimes a network redesign.
• Setup time — Foreman: About 30 minutes, done remotely with your own CCTV installer or computer guy. First real alert typically within 48 hours. Alternative: Weeks to months: site survey, integration project, commissioning, operator training.
• Pricing model — Foreman: Published on the website: ₹2,999/mo (6 cameras), ₹7,999/mo (16), ₹19,999/mo (40). Annual prepay = 2 months free. Alternative: Per-camera enterprise licences, integrator fees, annual maintenance contracts; quoted, negotiated, rarely public.
• Who operates it — Foreman: The owner's phone. Alerts arrive on WhatsApp or Telegram with photo proof; a daily digest and weekly PDF report do the summarising. Alternative: Trained control-room staff watching camera walls in shifts.
• Language of rules — Foreman: Plain Hindi or English: "agar koi 8 baje ke baad dispatch area mein ghuse, mujhe batao." Alternative: Configuration consoles, rule engines, technical menus.
• Contract — Foreman: Monthly. Free 14-day pilot on 4 cameras, no card, before you pay anything. Alternative: Annual or multi-year enterprise agreements.

What you give up, honestly

A fair comparison lists both columns' costs. Choosing Foreman over an enterprise platform, you give up things some organisations genuinely need: a video wall for live operators, certified integrations with access-control and fire panels, on-prem-only deployment options, formal SLAs with an integrator, and the ability to manage hundreds of cameras across many sites as one estate.

Foreman keeps continuous footage on your premises and sends only short clips around a detected event to the cloud for a second, more thorough check before any alert fires. Clips are stored in India and auto-deleted after 30 days; we never sell data and never train on your footage without consent. But if your policy forbids any clip leaving the building, that is a real constraint and Foreman does not fit it. We would rather lose the deal than blur the line.

• No video wall, no operator workflows, no panel integrations
• Short event clips do go to the cloud for verification, by design
• Vision-only, assistive alerts: Foreman notices, your people decide

What you get instead

For the owner Foreman was built for, the trade goes the other way. You get detection that is live today: after-hours intrusion, visual fire and smoke, camera tampering, loitering, helmet compliance, man-down, near-miss, attendance and headcount, idle-machine tracking, and vehicle/dispatch logging. Our own AI models, trained in-house for Indian factory floors: dust, low light, crowded frames. We believe this is the best factory-floor detection in the world, and we intend to prove it in public; our benchmark and paper are coming.

You also get a price you can read on the website, a pilot you can run this week, and a system your own installer sets up in about 30 minutes. No integrator, no procurement cycle, no training programme. If a fire starts in the godown at 2 AM, your phone rings with a photo. That is the whole product, and for a factory owner it is the part that was always missing.

• Every feature above is live today; we do not sell a roadmap
• Setup by your own installer, about 30 minutes, no project plan
• Try the live demo on the website: allow your laptop camera, hold up a lighter, watch the fire alert trigger in your browser. Nothing is uploaded or stored.

When Foreman is not the right choice

We would rather tell you now than lose your trust later. Choose an enterprise platform, not Foreman, if:

• You run 200+ cameras across multiple sites with a staffed control room and dedicated IT. You need estate management, operator workflows and formal support structures. That is what enterprise platforms are for, and they do it better than we do.
• Your video policy is strictly on-prem, with no cloud clips allowed. Foreman's second verification check sends short event clips to the cloud. If that is prohibited, Foreman is architecturally the wrong fit.
• You need certified integrations with access-control or fire panels. Foreman is vision-only software and does not integrate with or certify against panel systems. Your certified fire and safety systems stay exactly as they are; Foreman only adds a visual layer on top.
• You are bidding a city-surveillance or public-sector tender. Those specify enterprise platforms, compliance certifications and integrator ecosystems. Foreman is not built for that market and we will not pretend otherwise.