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 ROI FrameworksThe Retail Shrink Measurement Gap: A 2026 ROI Framework on Verified Detection Data, the NRF Reporting Gap, and the AI Video Analytics Business Case
NRF says shoplifting incidents rose 18 percent in 2024. The FBI's own two crime-reporting systems disagree by 93 percentage points on the same underlying trend. A primary-source economic model for loss-prevention leaders who need a defensible number instead of a contested one.
Bodies of research, organized by the question they answer.
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ROI FrameworksThe Retail Shrink Measurement Gap: A 2026 ROI Framework on Verified Detection Data, the NRF Reporting Gap, and the AI Video Analytics Business CaseA 2026 ROI framework for retail loss prevention leaders: how NRF, FBI, and Council on Criminal Justice data expose a shrink-measurement gap, and how to build an AI-verified loss baseline that survives a finance...Read dispatch ROI FrameworksThe Reimbursement Cliff of Inpatient Falls: A 2026 ROI Framework on the CMS Non-Payment Rule, the Sentinel-Event Reality, and the Long-Lie Interval That Decides the CostPatient falls are the top sentinel event in U.S. hospitals and the added cost is unreimbursed by Medicare. This ROI framework anchors the inpatient fall business case to four variables and the long-lie interval...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 ROI FrameworksAvoided-Incident Attribution for AI Physical Security: A 2026 ROI Framework on the Counterfactual Methodology Boards, Insurers, and Procurement Teams Now DemandFederal evidence hierarchy, three attribution traps, and the six-input counterfactual decomposition for security-AI ROI claims that survive board, insurer, and audit review.Read dispatch ROI FrameworksDetection-to-Response Latency Economics: A Quantitative ROI Framework for Translating Compressed Seconds Into Loss-Cost Reduction in AI Physical SecurityA finance-committee-grade ROI model that prices the seconds between detection and response. Four-phase latency decomposition, five-tier loss-cost stack, and a six-step procurement workflow with primary-source slope coefficients.Read dispatch ROI FrameworksThe True Workplace Violence Cost: A Seven-Tier Decomposition for Risk Leaders, CFOs, and Insurance UnderwritersA finance-defensible seven-tier decomposition of workplace violence cost: direct medical, productivity, regulatory, litigation, security response, retention, and insurance. Primary-source benchmarks for CFO-grade ROI modeling.Read dispatch ROI FrameworksThe Physical Security Staffing Crisis: An ROI Framework for AI-Augmented Guard OperationsThe physical security labor market is broken. The ROI model for fixing it runs through AI. 77% Annual turnover rate in the security guard sector, 2024 (ASIS International / Building Security Services) 162,300 Annual...Read dispatch ROI FrameworksWorkers’ Compensation Economics and AI Physical Security: How Detection-to-Response Compression Reduces Loss CostsA primary-source ROI framework that turns AI physical security into a workers' compensation loss-cost lever. NCCI severity data, Liberty Mutual cost rankings, and BLS reporting-lag mechanics built into a defensible carrier conversation.Read dispatch ROI FrameworksThe Four-Variable ROI Framework for AI Physical SecurityThe AI physical security ROI conversation has shifted from soft narrative to a four-variable economic model finance committees can defend. This Intelligence report walks through each variable with primary-source benchmarks for healthcare, K-12, manufacturing,...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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