PhD-led · Vision-Language AI for CCTV

Your AI eye that
never blinks.

BlinkFree turns the cameras you already own into a real-time, intelligent security analyst. Search your recordings in plain English, get urgent alerts instantly, and deploy it 100% on-premise or in the cloud, your choice.

Apply for Early Access →
● Cloud or On-Premise ● Hardware-Agnostic ● No NVR Required ● Real-Time
MAIN HALL STORAGE ENTRANCE Person A Person B TRACKING Person B NO VEST WEAPON INJURY FIRE LIVE ANALYSIS BlinkFree AI Person A SexMale AgeAdult SkinLight UpperBlue jacket LowerNavy jeans ShoesSneakers Person B SexFemale AgeAdult SkinDark UpperRed coat LowerBlack pants ShoesBoots POLICY VIOLATION · Storage WEAPON · Entrance INJURY · Entrance FIRE · Entrance

Trusted by security-first operators

XLR Security

CCTV, Re-Imagined.

Every recording becomes an insight, not wasted storage.

Hardware-Agnostic

Runs on any existing camera. No NVR, no rip-and-replace, no costly upgrades. BlinkFree talks to your cameras directly.

Flexible Deployment

Run BlinkFree 100% on-premise for full data sovereignty, or in the cloud for effortless scaling, whatever your security and IT policies require.

Real-Time Awareness

It watches, understands, and alerts the moment it matters, turning passive recordings into proactive action.

Privacy by Design

No facial recognition, no identity, no biometrics. BlinkFree understands people by visual appearance alone, security insight without surveilling who anyone is.

Capabilities

Everything your cameras were missing.

State-of-the-art vision + language, working together in real time.

Flagship

Search video in plain English

"Man in a white shirt, black pants, and sneakers." BlinkFree answers in seconds, no scrubbing through hours of footage.

Smart People Search results matching men in white shirts, black pants, and sneakers across six cameras

Set your custom alerts

Define what matters to you and get notified instantly:

  • • Weapons & threats
  • • Fire
  • • Injuries & falls
  • • Loitering
  • • Unattended counters
  • • etc.

Anonymous TrackingBeta

Faceless re-identification, no facial recognition. BlinkFree follows one person across every camera by appearance alone, never identity.

Find anyone, fast

Granular filters by appearance, demographics, and specific human activities.

Understand your space

Live customer demographics and behavior statistics, visualized on a clean dashboard.

Your day, summarized

An automatic daily language + video recap of everything that happened.

Always evolving New capabilities ship continuously, built hand-in-hand with our launch partners.

Use Cases

Built for the moments that matter.

BlinkFree Live Monitoring surfacing a real-time weapon threat alert as an armed person enters a store entrance

Security & Proactive Deterrence

Stop threats as they unfold, not on the morning review. BlinkFree flags weapons, aggression, and intrusions in real time so your team acts in the moment that counts.

  • ✓ Live weapon & threat detection
  • ✓ Instant alerts to staff & security
  • ✓ Visible deterrence that prevents incidents

Public-Space Safety

Continuous, intelligent monitoring of the spaces that need it most. Get alerted to injuries, falls, and at-risk situations the instant they happen.

  • ✓ Injury & accident detection
  • ✓ Loitering & unattended-area alerts
  • ✓ Anonymous, faceless cross-camera tracking
BlinkFree Live Monitoring alerting on a person who has fallen in a public space
BlinkFree Live Monitoring surfacing an operational alert for an unattended checkout

Operational Efficiency & Policy Automation

Turn passive cameras into an active workforce. BlinkFree enforces company policy automatically, reduces human error, and protects your assets, while surfacing the insights that drive better decisions.

  • ✓ Unattended-counter & queue alerts
  • ✓ Automated daily operational summaries
  • ✓ Demographics & behavior analytics

Enterprise & Multi-Site Security

Follow a person of interest across every camera and every building. BlinkFree uses anonymous, faceless re-identification (no facial recognition) to track individuals by appearance through your entire network, turning investigations that once took hours of manual review into minutes.

  • ✓ Anonymous, faceless cross-camera tracking
  • ✓ Multi-site, multi-building coverage
  • ✓ Rapid investigation & footage retrieval
BlinkFree Smart People Search showing the same person re-identified across multiple cameras

Architecture

Cloud or on-prem. No NVR. No compromise.

BlinkFree connects directly to your existing cameras and runs wherever you need it: 100% on-premise to keep every frame inside your building, or in the cloud for effortless scaling.

Step 1

Your Cameras

Keep every camera you already own. BlinkFree connects directly over your network, with no NVR and no new hardware.

Step 2

BlinkFree AI Engine

Our vision-language AI runs on a local box in your building or in your cloud, your choice. Every frame is understood in real time.

Step 3

Search, Alerts & Summaries

Search hours of footage in plain English, get real-time alerts the moment something matters, and receive automated daily summaries, on any screen.

Ali Awad, Founder of BlinkFree
Ali Awad · Founder

PhD-led innovation

Ali Awad · Founder

Ali Awad is an AI entrepreneur with a PhD in computer vision who turns research into real products. He has published academic work, released open benchmarks, and built production AI systems that perform in the field.

After opportunities in both industry and research, he chose to pursue the work that felt most meaningful to him. That path led to BlinkFree, where he leads product and engineering. He builds alongside security teams with one goal in mind, to turn the CCTV you already have into an intelligent assistant that watches, understands, and never blinks.

Vision-language AI specialist Published research Open-source benchmarks
"BlinkFree found in 8 seconds what used to take my team three hours of scrubbing footage. It's the first AI we've trusted to run entirely on our own hardware."
Jaeden Wiens, Founder of XLR Security

Jaeden Wiens

Founder, XLR Security

Co-develop the future of smart CCTV.

Join our Early Access & Design Partnership: get a real competitive edge and a direct line to our product and design team. Have a custom use case? Let's build it together.

Exclusive early access

Ship with BlinkFree before anyone else and gain a head start.

Collaborate directly

Work hand-in-hand with our product & design team.

Co-develop your use case

Bring a custom scenario and we'll build it with you.

Apply for Early Access

Plus founding-partner pricing for our first design partners.