Most sites already have cameras. Most sites are also a little tired of being told to rip them out and start over. hawks nest is the layer that sits on top of what you already own and turns the feed into something you can act on.
It is self-hosted. Footage stays on your network. No clip leaves the building unless you tell it to. The analytics layer adds counts, events, alerts, zones, and a review queue — the parts of camera infrastructure that are usually missing.
Five shapes the workflow takes most often:
- Retail — footfall and occupancy across stores and showrooms.
- Site ops — alerts and review for offices, clinics, and compounds.
- Yard & parking — vehicle flow and threshold alerts at gates.
- Warehouse — dispatch visibility, with package OCR where it earns its keep.
- Access & identity — face, ALPR, and watchlists for higher-control sites.
The goal is not surveillance. The goal is fewer surprises. A camera that nobody watches becomes an event with a timestamp; an event with a timestamp becomes a queue someone clears; the queue becomes a quieter week. That is the whole arc.