HaShomer builds AI that reads what a camera is actually seeing — and grades it, in the moment, with the evidence attached.
Not pixels
Unconfirmed retention
Biometric identifiers
Founded and based
Introduction
01HaShomer is an AI company. Its work is perception software: systems that watch live video and classify what is happening — by severity, as it happens, with the footage that proves it attached to the record.
The work
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Vigil reads what a camera is actually seeing — a person on the ground, a crowd breaking apart, an animal where it should not be — grades it by severity and keeps the footage that proves it. A running prototype, and a part-by-part blueprint of the camera it would live in.
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03A minute and a quarter on what Vigil sees, how it grades a moment, and the one thing it never asks.
Two minutes on the whole company: real camera footage, the wall it reports to, and the camera taken apart down to the board that decides.
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04השומר — the watchman. The name of the guard organisation founded in 1909 to defend the early settlements, and the forerunner of everything that came after it. A watchman does not strike first. He sees first, and he is certain before he speaks.
At HaShomer, we build AI systems for defence and security, and the hardware that has to exist where software runs out. We were founded in Israel and work from here, and we take on special requests outside that core — from an aircraft to a mine.
The film
Real security footage, the wall Vigil reports to, and the camera taken apart down to the board that decides.
Every idea gets a real look, whoever it comes from. If we take it to production, you get a share of what it makes.
One line is enough here. The rest takes a minute on the contact page.
Get in touch
05A demo, a site, a question or an idea: say what you have in mind. A person reads every message and answers it.
Status
06HaShomer is in development. Vigil is a running prototype, not a fielded product, and its figures describe how it is built rather than measured performance in service. Nothing here describes a deployed system or a specific location.
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