Strategic research for proactive safety leaders.
Open analysis on AI-powered physical security, detection architecture, compliance, policy, sector risk, and the operational shift from recorded video to verified response.
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IntelliGence is organized for security directors, facilities leaders, risk teams, and operators who need to understand what is changing and what to do next.
What threats are changing?
Track emerging physical security risks, attack patterns, safety mandates, and response gaps.
Threat intelligence 02How does the technology work?
Understand computer vision, local inference, model validation, alert routing, and integration architecture.
Technology briefings 03How do we justify action?
Use ROI, grant, liability, and operational frameworks to move proactive safety into planning and budget cycles.
ROI frameworksSix ways into the library.
Each stream is tuned to a different decision mode: signal, architecture, sector risk, standards, business case, and autonomous workflow design.
Threat Intelligence
What is changing in schools, public facilities, healthcare, workplaces, venues, and critical infrastructure.
ArchitectureTechnology Briefings
How AI video analytics actually works, where it fails, and what architecture choices matter.
EnvironmentsSector Playbooks
Industry-specific planning for education, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector, and commercial facilities.
StandardsCompliance
Privacy, safety policy, DHS SAFETY Act, workplace violence mandates, and procurement context.
Business CaseROI Frameworks
Practical models for evaluating cost, risk reduction, staff efficiency, and incident response impact.
AutomationAgentic AI
How autonomous workflows can help teams move from detection to coordinated response.
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Working Technology BriefingsAI-Powered Threat Detection and Workplace Safety: The Definitive 2026 Guide to Proactive Computer Vision
A reference guide for security, risk, and operations leaders evaluating AI-powered threat detection in 2026.
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Standards & ComplianceThe Colorado AI Act Collapse: The 2026 Standards-Compliance Briefing on the SB 24-205 Repeal, the SB 26-189 ADMT Reset, and Why Physical Security AI Sits Outside the Consequential-Decision PerimeterThe first comprehensive US state AI law was repealed before it took effect. A standards-compliance briefing on the SB 24-205 collapse, the SB 26-189 ADMT reset, and why threat detection stays outside the consequential-decision...Read dispatch Threat IntelligenceSwatting and Hoax Active-Shooter Calls: The 2026 Threat Intelligence Briefing on the Verification Gap, the Campus Hoax Wave, and the Ground-Truth Detection LayerSwatting turns a fabricated phone call into a real armed response. This 2026 threat intelligence briefing analyzes the verification gap, the fall 2025 campus hoax wave, the federal response, and where AI ground-truth detection...Read dispatch ROI FrameworksThe Capital-Budgeting Case for AI Physical Security: A 2026 ROI Framework on After-Tax Cost, the OBBBA Depreciation Reset, CapEx vs. OpEx, and Payback PeriodThe 2025 tax law reset the capital-budgeting math for AI physical security. A ROI framework on after-tax cost, bonus depreciation, Section 179, MACRS, and the payback and NPV numbers a finance committee actually asks...Read dispatch Standards & ComplianceNegligent Security and Premises Liability: The 2026 Standards-Compliance Briefing on the Foreseeability Test, the 2025 Tort-Reform Wave, and the Detection Record That Decides the VerdictNegligent security verdicts turn on whether a crime was foreseeable. This briefing maps the four foreseeability standards, Georgia's 2025 SB 68 reform, and how a property's detection-and-response record decides the case.Read dispatch IntelliSee IntelligenceSurveillance Footage on Trial: The 2026 Standards-Compliance Briefing on Content Provenance, the Deepfake Authentication Gap, and the Evidentiary Architecture (C2PA, NIST, and Proposed Federal Rule 707) That Decides Whether Your Video Holds UpThree numbers define why the integrity of your surveillance footage is now a compliance question, not a technical footnote. 62%of organizations experienced a deepfake-related incident in the prior 12 months (Gartner 2025 AI Risk...Read dispatch Threat IntelligenceDrone Incursions and Counter-UAS for Physical Security: The 2026 Threat Intelligence Briefing on Airspace Risk, the FAA Fixed-Site Rule, and the AI Detection Layer Between Sensing and MitigationDrone incursions crossed from curiosity to planned-for threat in 2026. This briefing maps the airspace risk, the FAA fixed-site rule, the SAFER SKIES Act, and the detection-versus-mitigation line facility operators must understand.Read dispatch Market AnalysisAI Physical Security Vendor Due Diligence: The 2026 Market Analysis of Financial-Health, Claims-Substantiation, and Platform-Risk Signals Buyers Must Verify Before a Multi-Year ContractThe AI security product usually works; the company selling it sometimes does not. A vendor-neutral market analysis of the financial, claims, platform, and verifiable-signal diligence buyers must run before signing a multi-year contract.Read dispatch Agentic AIAgentic AI Liability in Physical Security: The 2026 Briefing on Who Carries the Risk When the System Acts, the State-Law Whiplash, and the Risk Allocation Architecture for Autonomous ResponseColorado repealed its AI Act before it was ever enforced, the EU deferred high-risk deadlines, and tort law moved anyway. A 2026 reference on who carries liability when agentic security AI acts, and how...Read dispatch Agentic AIHuman-in-the-Loop AI Security: The 2026 Framework for Trust Calibration, Alert Fatigue, and the Verification Layer Between AI Detection and ResponseFour decades of human-factors research on vigilance, alarm fatigue, and automation bias, translated into a function-allocation framework and five RFP-ready questions for specifying human oversight of agentic security AI.Read dispatch Technology BriefingsCamera Requirements for AI Video Analytics: A 2026 Technology Briefing on the DORI Standard, Johnson Criteria, Pixel Density Math, and the Imaging Variables That Determine Detection PerformanceMegapixels do not decide whether AI detection works; pixels on target do. This briefing translates IEC 62676-4, the Johnson criteria, and compression research into a four-pass audit framework for scoring camera estates before deployment.Read dispatch Threat IntelligenceVehicle Ramming Attacks: The 2026 Threat Intelligence Briefing on the 27-Attack Global Surge, Hostile Vehicle Mitigation Standards, and the AI Detection Layer Between Bollards and the CrowdVehicle ramming attacks surged worldwide in 2025. This 2026 threat intelligence briefing covers the attacker profile, ASTM F2656 and PAS 68 hostile vehicle mitigation standards, and the AI detection layer that closes the gap...Read dispatch Sector PlaybooksCasinos, Tribal Gaming, and Commercial Gaming Facilities: The 2026 AI Physical Security Sector Playbook for Security Directors, Surveillance Chiefs, and Risk OfficersGaming properties have the most sophisticated surveillance infrastructure in any private sector — built for fraud detection, not threat response. This 2026 playbook covers the NIGC MICS and NGCB compliance framework, the casino threat...Read dispatch Start with the question your team is trying to answer.
What threats are changing?
Track emerging physical security risks, attack patterns, safety mandates, and response gaps.
Threat Intelligence →02How does the technology work?
Understand computer vision, model validation, alert routing, and integration architecture.
Technology Briefings →03How do we justify action?
Use ROI, grant, liability, and operational frameworks to move proactive safety into planning.
ROI Frameworks →Research should clarify the next decision.
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