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Tavi Tamiste

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
111 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And I've been working with applied machine learning for about eight years now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And I've been working with large corporates and I've been trying to run my own AI consultancy business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And this idea actually got started from when I was sort of bootstrapping my own AI consultancy business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And we were doing a

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

a project for a city here in Tallinn, Estonia, where they wanted to measure cars on city streets, basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

Sounds easy enough, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

But what ended up happening was that that project from start to finish took six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

So we had to find data science resources, we had to gather the data, we had to train the model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

We had to put that model to run on some infrastructures somewhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And then we had to visualize the data with some software.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

So it took six months to actually get something out of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And now with FIMO, you can do it in 20 seconds, basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

The trouble of sort of building custom AI applications is where this pain got started from.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

Now it's a lot easier to do it basically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

But there is a very important part in this is that you can only do it in a specific niche.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

And in computer vision, we're doing it in the CCTV camera angle because you can at least not yet make an AI algorithm that can look at everything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

So right now, I think we're working with about 10 to 15 customers, but we are running a bunch of pilots in the UK at the moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

So the customers we can talk about is the Queen Elizabeth Park area in London, in the Upper East Side of London.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

That's where the 2012 London Olympics were set up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Camera Analytics SaaS Hits $6k MRR, Raised $1.5m at $4m Valuation

So we have like 30 cameras set up there.