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

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.

We answer 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. We assume nobody will.
• Enterprise platforms manage video. We turn video into a handful of alerts worth your attention.
• Both are legitimate. They are for different buyers.

• 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: A 60-second install on a computer at your site, with your own CCTV installer or your IT person if you want help. Alternative: Weeks to months: site survey, integration project, commissioning, operator training.
• Pricing model. Foreman: Published on the website: ₹400 per camera per month, four cameras minimum. 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 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: Rules in plain Hindi or English, like: tell me if anyone enters dispatch after 8 PM. Alternative: Configuration consoles, rule engines, technical menus.
• Contract. Foreman: Monthly. Free 7-day trial on all your cameras (up to 32), no card, before you pay anything. Alternative: Annual or multi-year enterprise agreements.

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.

We keep your recordings on your premises. Event photos and clips go to the cloud for a second, more thorough check before any alert fires, and a small preview photo of each camera goes up every few minutes so the app shows it is working. Event media is deleted after 30 days; we never sell data and never train on your footage. But if your policy forbids any image leaving the building, that is a real constraint and we do not fit it. We would rather lose the deal than blur the line.

• No video wall, no operator workflows, no panel integrations
• Event photos, clips and camera previews do go to the cloud, by design
• Vision-only, assistive alerts: we notice, your people decide

For the owner Foreman was built for, the trade goes the other way. You get after-hours intrusion, visual fire and smoke and camera tampering on every site from day one, plus loitering, helmet checks, man-down, near-miss, idle-machine tracking and vehicle and dispatch logging that we set up for your site. It all runs on our own AI models, trained in-house for Indian factory floors: dust, low light, crowded frames.

You also get a price you can read on the website, a trial you can run this week, and a system that installs in 60 seconds. 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.

• Fire, intrusion and tampering run from day one. The rest we set up with you for your cameras.
• A 60-second install, no project plan
• Try it in Foreman Labs: allow your laptop camera, hold up a lighter and watch fire detection run in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

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 images allowed in the cloud. Our second check sends event photos and clips to the cloud. If that is prohibited, we are the wrong fit.
• You need certified integrations with access-control or fire panels. We work from cameras only and do not integrate with or certify against panel systems. Your certified fire and safety systems stay exactly as they are; we only add a visual layer on top.
• You are bidding a city-surveillance or public-sector tender. Those specify enterprise platforms, compliance certifications and integrator ecosystems. We are not built for that market and we will not pretend otherwise.