Most facial recognition needs you to look at the camera. We think that's a big ask. SkyView® identifies people from above, at angles of 35° to 80°, while they go about their day. No cooperation required. No interruption. We don't build drones. We make them see.
Drones are commodities now. Anyone can build one, so we don't. We build the intelligence and license it to the people who do. Your aircraft, your brand, your customers. Our eyes. The manufacturer is our customer. The operator is theirs. The person on the ground isn't anybody's customer, and that keeps the model simple.
SkyView® spots a face from above and finds the match. It runs entirely on the drone: no signal home, no operator input, and no record unless the licensee wants one. People look down at their phones all day. We think someone should be looking back.
Drone ID® is our transparency product. It's a beacon that tells people on the ground when a recognition drone is nearby. We believe it's essential for public trust. That's why we're building it carefully, with input from every stakeholder, on no particular timeline. The market will tell us when it's ready. It hasn't yet.
The plumbing under everything. Activation keys per aircraft, version pinning, match telemetry, and the contracts that say what a licensee may do. We always know how many drones can recognize you. Where they are is the licensee's business.
Excerpted from the ExactitudeEagle Responsible Deployment Framework, rev. 6. Full text available under NDA to prospective licensees.
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Every license comes bundled with our Responsible Deployment Framework. We wrote it ourselves, for ourselves, while we built the product. We finished both the same week. That isn't a shortcut. That's parallelization.
| Item | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Downstream liability where a licensee's customer misidentifies a subject | Legal | Under review |
| Publication of demographic variance figures outside the licensee packet | Policy / Comms | Deferred |
| Mechanism by which Drone ID® broadcast would be made mandatory | Regulatory affairs | No owner assigned |
| Consent standard for subjects captured incidentally in public space | Legal | Jurisdiction-dependent |
"Someone was always going to teach machines to recognize people from the sky. The world is lucky it was us, because we came with a framework. Regulation will arrive eventually, and we'll be compliant on day one. Compliance is easy when you wrote the requirements."
Pass diligence and you get the specs, the accuracy curves, and the framework. We've said no to four companies so far. It felt great.