{"id":108360,"title":"OpenVector - Self-improving AI that turns any camera into an autonomous worker.","tagline":"Most cameras just record. We give them the ability to do real work.","body":"**TLDR;** OpenVector turns existing cameras into an automated 24/7 workforce. Describe a task in plain English, and it auto-builds a custom vision model that takes real-time actions on a computer when it spots an event.\n\n**Ask;** If you or someone you know runs physical operations (manufacturing, logistics, retail, security) and wants to automate visual tasks without buying new hardware, we’d love to connect!\n\n**Our Launch Video:**\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36OaIJ4FPZ8\u003e\n\n**Our Team:**\n\nOpenVector was founded by a team of builders and engineers obsessed with bringing self-improving visual intelligence to the physical world.\n\n* [Andrey Gizdov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreygizdov/), CEO, dropped a fully-funded **PhD** scholarship from Fulbright, worth **$170,000**, with invitations at **Harvard and MIT**, where he worked on real-time vision models.\n* [Vishal Urlam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishal-urlam/), CTO, previously automated camera systems and network protocols for Tata, the **second-largest network infrastructure in the world**. CMU embedded systems engineer.\n\n**Problem**:\n\nMany important business moments happen in the physical world: Someone tailgates. A production cycle stalls. A worker skips a step in the manufacturing process. A customer arrives, and no one responds. There are over 1 billion cameras worldwide, but they only record it for later. For physical operations, the best technology available to catch these events in real-time has been a human staring at a monitor.\n\n**Solution:**\n\nOpenVector is an AI that brings action to any camera.\n\n* **Plain English to AI Model:** No coding or expensive setup. Simply describe your task in plain English, and OpenVector automatically builds the best AI vision model for it, and watches your camera feeds 24/7. It’s an app that takes 2 minutes to download and set up, and works with any camera.\n* **Acts Like a Human:** OpenVector operates a computer just like a human based on what it sees.\n* **Legacy Integration:** It automatically integrates with your existing systems to make a call, send an email, update your POS or CRM, or trigger a webhook the second an event happens.\n* **Zero New Hardware:** Works entirely with the cameras you already have installed (custom end-to-end solutions also available).\n\n**We’ve Already Started:**\n\nOpenVector is already live and seeing use cases across security, retail, manufacturing, and logistics. We are tracking production cycle efficiency directly from existing CCTV, ensuring good-manufacturing-practices, and catching physical design errors.\n\n**Now Onboarding:**\n\nOpenVector is ready to deploy on your camera feeds today. Contact us if you’re tired of cameras that only watch and want them to actually do work for you. [founders@openvector.com](mailto:founders@openvector.com)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=108360\u0026key=user_uploads/633157/46faabca-90e0-4c69-a364-138588d733d5)\n\n","slug":"SBk-openvector-self-improving-ai-that-turns-any-camera-into-an-autonomous-worker","created_at":"2026-07-31T18:00:43.590Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T03:50:21.369Z","total_vote_count":16,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SBk-openvector-self-improving-ai-that-turns-any-camera-into-an-autonomous-worker","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=108360\u0026key=user_uploads/633157/46faabca-90e0-4c69-a364-138588d733d5","company":{"id":31301,"name":"OpenVector","slug":"openvector","url":"https://openvector.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/54df715903ce304e2b9e3b2fe1f375caf7811ea6.png","batch":"Summer 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Robotics","Computer Vision","Infrastructure","Industrial"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31301"}}