The register says full shift. Does the floor?

The oldest leak in the factory

Every owner has had the moment: the register shows forty-two present, and a walk across the floor finds thirty. Not absent — just not there. A friend punched the card at the gate. The lunch break stretched twenty minutes past the bell. Half the second shift drifted to the canteen side while the register stayed perfect.

None of this is dramatic, which is exactly why it persists. It is a slow leak, paid out every month in full wages for partial presence, and it is invisible because the only record you have — the punch, the register, the muster roll — is a record of who arrived, not of who worked. The gap between the two is where the money goes.

• Proxy punches: the card is present, the person is not
• Late starts after every break, multiplied across the whole floor
• Full wages paid against partial presence, month after month

What the cameras already know

Your cameras see the truth all day; nobody has time to watch them. Foreman does. It counts people on your existing cameras, by zone and by time window: how many were on the packing floor at 9:15, how the assembly line thinned between 1 and 2, how the count at closing compared with the count at the gate that morning.

The correlation is where it gets sharp. Foreman also tracks idle machines, so when a line sits idle and the floor around it is half-empty at the same hour, you see the two facts side by side. That is the picture no register can give you: not just who came, but whether the floor you paid for actually ran.

• Headcount by zone and time window, from the cameras you already own
• Attendance patterns across the day — starts, breaks, closing
• Idle-machine correlation: a stopped line beside a half-empty floor tells the story
• Every count double-checked before it is reported

A daily digest instead of a daily argument

Every morning, a WhatsApp or Telegram digest shows yesterday's presence by zone and hour, and every week a PDF report shows the pattern — which shift starts late, which zone thins first, whether the numbers are improving. You set what matters in plain Hindi or English: "har din lunch ke baad packing floor ka headcount bhejo." Foreman follows the instruction exactly, every day, without being reminded.

The conversation with your supervisors changes. Instead of "I feel the floor is thin after lunch," it is a number, a zone, and a time — hard to argue with, easy to fix.

• Daily digest of presence by zone and hour, every morning
• Weekly PDF report showing the pattern over time
• Plain-language rules for the counts and alerts you care about

Honest about what it counts

Two boundaries, stated plainly. First, Foreman works alongside your biometric or punch system, not in place of it — keep your punches; Foreman tells you what happened after them. Second, it counts presence on the floor, not the identities of individuals. It answers "how many people were in this zone at this hour," which is the operational question, without following or profiling any one worker. Counting runs on-site with our own AI models, trained in-house for crowded Indian factory floors, and your continuous footage stays on your premises.

₹79,990 a year, against two phantom wages

Supervisor covers 16 cameras at ₹7,999 a month — ₹79,990 a year on annual prepay, with two months free. Now run one honest supposition: suppose proxy punches and stretched breaks add up to just two phantom wages a month across your whole floor. Take your own monthly wage figure, double it, multiply by twelve, and set it against ₹79,990. We will not claim that is your number — you will know your number within the first week of looking.

During the free pilot, the dashboard shows a rupee-impact estimate for your site, clearly labelled as an estimate, so the decision is made on your floor's data.

• Supervisor: ₹7,999/mo for 16 cameras, or ₹79,990/yr with two months free
• Sentry: ₹2,999/mo for 6 cameras, if one floor is where the doubt lives
• Rupee-impact estimate on the dashboard, labelled as an estimate

Counting by tomorrow morning

Foreman is software only and connects to the Hikvision, CP Plus, or Dahua DVR you already run — no new cameras, no turnstiles, no hardware. Setup takes about 30 minutes, done remotely with your own CCTV installer or computer guy, on normal broadband. Start a free 14-day pilot on 4 cameras, no card — point them at the gate and your busiest floor. The first real insight typically lands within 48 hours.