There's a lot more to it than just contracts and contractors. There's a good book that talks about improving the military's ability to respond (The Kill Chain). The general point is that the face of war has evolved but the U.S. military's primary method of changing direction and decentralizing decisions (The Kill Chain) has not.

Worth a read.

Gold. Proud to be affiliated.

Can confirm

You're asking good questions about raising capital but the outcome was a rare circumstance where all cofounders, previous investors, new investors, current employees, and the exec team are thrilled. There's a lot to do but the round was right-sized as it was the same amount we planned to raise pre-pandemic.

Can't count cars at the moment, unfortunately. But there's some cool tech from Flocksafety and other camera solutions.

Lower cost systems like Google's Popular Times, are not as accurate as they seem. The next time you see a graph on google, you'll notice there's no y-axis. It's a clever way to look like actuals when it's relative to itself. Also we have units in many GPT locations. They're not accurate. On the vc returns thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We'll see.

How does the accuracy of your system compare to ARKit’s people/skeleton tracking with the LiDAR Scanner in the new iPad Pro?

Thank you. Fwiw, our eng team has deeply benefited from all those dev tools and libraries. The stack to result in real-time, accurate count is nuts. I think one of our devs, Gus, was on the thread. Maybe he can weigh in.

Right now our production backend relies on Postgres, Django, Kafka, Docker, Nomad, Celery (yes, those queues probably should be folded back into Kafka eventually), and lots of other open-source tech. I'm not sure if I should share much, and can't talk in depth anyway, about the embedded stack. And then there are the tools for developing the algorithm, and custom systems for assembly/test/pack in Syracuse.

Our web application is mostly TypeScript, React, RxJS.

The hardware is yours?

Yes, designed in-house by some very talented colleagues.

Nice job, that ain't easy.

This one's legit (cofounder here). We honestly thought it would be a side project. We originally used a raspberry pi and two TP-Links to recreate a router (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGa9-QUDWo&t=7s). People are really hard to count.

We get this question from time to time. It may be possible with some systems but it's not feasible at our resolution. You can see more of our depth data here -- https://medium.com/density-inc/ai-is-not-magic-its-manual-la...

I'll have to take your word for it – I'm curious if you have tried it though. I can certainly imagine that it might be feasible (even at lower resolutions) with enough stirring of the 'linear algebra pile'.

Not meaning to rain on your parade though – congratulations on a great idea!

No rain! It's a great callout. We'll see what we can do if for no other reason than to understand risk.

I've lost track of the number of times we've said, "well, we count people" and thought... god this must be boring for other people.