Caryn Seidman-Becker
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but there's not enough people to staff it.
And airports are also super interesting because you have these peaks.
If you watch an airport, which I never thought I would be doing, but I do, the volume goes from this to this to this.
You have to staff for peaks, which is really hard in a staffing business.
And so you do need automation.
You do need e-gates.
You do need offsite screening.
You do need people to come to the back as opposed to through the front.
There's all sorts of opportunities there.
If you're innovative and creative and partner oriented to drive secure throughput with a better customer experience at airports.
And at any time you get a little stuck and then you need to move and try new things.
So the Envy is our new face-first technology that we just launched.
So it is now in all of our airports, going back to chapters.
Our first six years were smart cards until we went to the cloud.
And then we went to the cloud in 2016.
At the same time, we partnered with Delta.
And that was a really transformational moment for Clear, both in terms of scale and technology, because you didn't need a smart card.
You could enroll and use it immediately.
But that was fingerprints and eyes.
To us, it's clear that face is one of the really important biometric winners.