The first thing you notice is the silence. On a typical construction site, a worker without a hardhat might go unnoticed until a supervisor's shout. In the dashboard for Ailytics' Ailyssa software, that same breach triggers a quiet, persistent alert. A red bounding box appears around the figure, a timestamp is logged, and a notification is queued for the site safety team. The camera hasn't changed. The workflow of pouring concrete or moving steel hasn't paused. But the layer of observation has become constant, algorithmic, and unblinking.
Founded in 2021 by Lenard Tan and Prateek Manocha, the Singapore-based company sells AI video analytics to heavy industries. Its core proposition is infrastructural thrift: it layers its software onto existing CCTV systems at construction sites, ports, airports, and manufacturing plants, converting passive video feeds into a real-time monitoring system for safety and operations [PERPLEXITY SONAR PRO BRIEF, retrieved 2026]. The bet is that the camera network is already there; the intelligence is what's missing.
The wedge of existing infrastructure
Ailytics did not start by selling hardware. Its wedge was the camera already bolted to the girder. The product, Ailyssa, is a software layer that uses computer vision to derive three-dimensional spatial understanding from standard two-dimensional feeds [Financial Post, October 2026]. It looks for specific, configurable scenarios: a worker entering an exclusion zone, a missing piece of personal protective equipment, a vehicle moving too close to personnel. The company claims it can go live on a customer's existing cameras in under two weeks [Ailytics, retrieved 2026].
This asset-light approach lowers the barrier to adoption. A project foreman doesn't need to justify a new capital expenditure for sensors; they can pilot a subscription service on the cameras they already own. The initial use case was safety monitoring on Singapore public housing projects, a controlled environment with stringent protocols. From there, the company expanded into larger, more complex industrial deployments [PERPLEXITY SONAR PRO BRIEF, retrieved 2026].
Scaling the industrial grid
Traction has followed a path from single sites to sprawling infrastructure. By October 2026, Ailytics reported more than 400 deployments across 15 countries, a significant jump from the 70 projects in four countries it cited at its April 2024 financing [AAP/PR Newswire, October 2026]. Its headcount grew in parallel, from 18 people at the start of 2025 to 42 by December of that year [Ailytics, December 2025].
The customer roster now reads like a list of global industrial anchors. It includes construction giant Woh Hup (also an investor), engineering firm Laing O'Rourke, steel producer NatSteel, and logistics leader DHL [DealStreetAsia, October 2026]. Its deployment at the construction site for Singapore's Changi Airport Terminal 5 alone monitors more than 1,000 cameras [DealStreetAsia, October 2026]. Other named sites range from the Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome to a PaxOcean shipyard in Indonesia [DealStreetAsia, October 2026].
Apr 2024 Deployments | 70 | projects
Oct 2026 Deployments | 400 | projects
The company's October 2026 Series A round, a $7.4 million raise led by Tin Men Capital, is earmarked to fuel further expansion across APAC, the United States, and the Gulf [AAP/PR Newswire, October 2026]. This followed a $2.7 million pre-Series A in April 2024, also led by Tin Men Capital [PRNewswire, April 2024].
| Round | Date | Amount | Lead Investor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Series A | April 2024 | $2.7M | Tin Men Capital |
| Series A | October 2026 | $7.4M | Tin Men Capital |
The quantified case for algorithmic oversight
The sales pitch is built on a stark arithmetic of risk reduction. The company and its customers report dramatic improvements in key safety metrics upon adoption. Businesses have reported a seven-times increase in hazard detection, a 70 percent reduction in non-compliance with safety protocols, and a 20 percent improvement in operational efficiency [The Business Times, April 2026]. In one case study, a client detected up to 95% of non-compliant activities after deploying the software [Construction Tech Review, retrieved 2026].
These numbers point to a fundamental shift in compliance culture. When detection is manual and sporadic, safety can feel like a game of chance. When it is automated and constant, every action enters a ledger. The product offers over 50 configurable use cases, allowing site managers to track not just safety breaches but operational elements like contractor performance and construction progress [Ailytics, retrieved 2026] [getlatka.com, retrieved 2026].
Navigating a crowded vision field
The ambition is clear, but the path is not without its contours. The field of computer vision for industrial settings is getting crowded. Ailytics must continually prove that its specific algorithms for heavy industry,trained on the particular chaos of construction sites and shipyards,are superior to more generalized vision platforms. Its partnership with NVIDIA, announced in June 2026, to deploy the Cosmos 3 platform is a move to bolster its technical edge [Ailytics, June 2026].
Furthermore, scaling from project-based deployments to enterprise-wide standardization presents a different sales motion. Winning a pilot on one terminal is not the same as becoming the mandated safety layer across a global port operator's entire network. The recent funding suggests investors believe the team, which has steadily navigated from a local wedge to international projects, is equipped for that climb.
The company's reported metrics, while impressive, also frame the central challenge of any analytics business: moving from detection to indispensable workflow. The real test in the next twelve months will be whether Ailytics can convert its thousands of cameras and hundreds of deployments into entrenched, expanding enterprise contracts. The expansion into the US and Gulf markets will be the proving ground for this transition.
Ultimately, Ailytics is answering a cultural question that extends far beyond construction fencing. In an era of pervasive sensors, what do we owe to the promise of perfect observation? The company's software offers a world where a forgotten hardhat doesn't rely on a foreman's glance, but on an impartial, tireless scan. It trades the occasional, human shout for a silent, systemic log. The appeal is undeniable: a reduction of chance, a ledger of diligence. The tension it navigates is older than any camera,the balance between a safer worksite and the weight of a watch that never blinks.
Sources
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- [PERPLEXITY SONAR PRO BRIEF, retrieved 2026] Company and product overview
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- [Financial Post, October 2026] Ailytics derives three-dimensional spatial understanding from a single two-dimensional feed
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- [PRNewswire, April 2024] Ailytics raises US$2.7m to power next generation scenario-based AI monitoring for heavy industries | https://www.prnewswire.com/ae/news-releases/ailytics-raises-us2-7m-to-power-next-generation-scenario-based-ai-monitoring-for-heavy-industries-302105929.html
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