Our company

We're building software that makes sure work on a site happens the way it should.

Every site runs on procedures, schedules and rules, and nobody can watch all of them. Cyrus checks them on the cameras and sensors a site already has — so procedures are followed, inspections are done, records are complete, and the people running the site hear within seconds when something is off.

Our thesis

Sites don't need more detection. They need supervision.

Video analytics has spent a decade getting better at telling you what's in the frame. It still can't tell you whether the work happened the way it should — because it doesn't know how the work is supposed to happen.

AI can now understand a scene, remember a site and act on what it sees. We use that to build something different: a supervisor you brief in plain words, that watches every camera and sensor you already have and holds the operation to your own procedures, schedules and rules.

WHAT WE STAND FOR

Built as a supervisor, not a detector — from the first line of code
Briefed in words, on the cameras and sensors operators already have
Prove value in weeks, not quarters
Earn trust with human-approved, auditable action

The team

Operators and researchers who've shipped this before.

A founding team with two PhDs in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and deep experience building and deploying low-latency real-time video systems and distributed edge/cloud systems — some patent-pending and featured at top conferences.

Jeremy Johnston, PhD

Co-founder & CEO

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Background in AI for wireless communication systems and quantum communication.

Mahshid Ghasemi, PhD

Co-founder & CTO

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. Specialist in efficient system design for real-time video analytics.

Advised by

Steven Eames

Operational advisor

20+ years in security & military operations; real-time crime operations-center design.

Wayne Homschek

Financial advisor

Managing Director @ Bentley Associates; 20+ years in investment banking; former founder & CEO.

Omair Manzoor

Strategic advisor

Chief Hacker @ ioSENTRIX; former Sr. Security Engineer @ Amazon; former Sr. Security Consultant @ Cigital.

Doug Stebbins

Strategic advisor

Managing Director @ Bentley Associates; M&A, fundraising, venture capital & private equity.

How we work

Built with operators, not in a lab.

We learn from real sites, real events, and real edge cases — and ship from feedback, not from spec sheets.

Customer-first

Every feature begins with a problem an operator raised on a live site — never theory.

Feedback compounds

Expert input is wired into the system itself, so every deployment makes Cyrus sharper.

Quietly trustworthy

Approvals, audit trails, and on-prem options — so your data and your decisions stay yours.