Review CCTV footage automatically and generate AI incident reports

AI reviews new security camera footage every few minutes and writes a searchable incident report automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each video file.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsAI Chatbots & AssistantsKnowledge Base & RAGSpreadsheet & Database OpsReporting & AnalyticsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveGoogle SheetsGemini
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The problem it solves

You cannot watch every camera every minute, so incidents get missed or discovered too late to act on. Reviewing hours of footage after something happens wastes staff time and delays your response. Searching old recordings for a specific person or vehicle is slow and often comes up empty.

Who it fits

Security teams and facility managers responsible for reviewing CCTV footage across one or more locations.

How it works

  1. New video footage lands in a monitored folder every few minutes
  2. AI scans the footage for people, vehicles, and suspicious activity
  3. A structured incident report is written with time, location, and description
  4. The report is logged to a searchable database
  5. A built-in chat assistant lets staff search past incidents in plain language
What you get

Camera incidents you can search by name

Every incident your cameras catch gets written up and filed automatically, so you can search your camera history the moment something comes up.

What you get

A structured incident report for each review cycle and a searchable log of past events staff can query by chat.

What you need

A Google Drive and Google Sheets account, plus access to Google's Gemini AI.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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