Your cameras already watch.
Now they speak.
Ocula watches your shop after you close. It speaks out loud to anyone who shouldn't be there and texts you if they don't leave. It runs on the cameras you already own, and we fit the unit ourselves in about an hour.
Seven nights free. Nothing to install, nothing to cancel, and I come to you.
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The thesis, the evidence, and honest numbers on where this actually is.
Read the investor page →Three things happen, in about ten seconds.
Your shop is shut and someone stops at the door. This is the whole sequence.
It watches the door, not just for movement
Your cameras feed a small box on site. It tells the difference between someone walking past and someone who stops, waits, or reaches for the handle.
It says something out loud, and it is specific
Not a siren, and not a recording looping to an empty street. A voice speaks at the moment they stop, addresses them directly and tells them they are on camera. That is the difference between hearing a noise and being spoken to.
If they stay, your phone goes off
A text in plain English with the clip attached and an emergency number one tap away. Ocula never calls anyone for you. That call is always yours.
The things that actually happen to shops.
testinghandles, locks, shutters
after closesomeone who stops and stays
theftpickups off your step
glasswindow and door strikes
entryalleys and service doors
after hoursyour hours, your rules
One unit, connected to the cameras you already have.
Ocula is an on-site unit. It reads your camera feeds where they already are, decides whether anything needs a response, and speaks through a speaker mounted at the door.
Pointed at the door, wired to the recorder in the back.
›Mounted where it carries to the doorway.
›Only when something will not leave.
Systems it runs on
Nearly any camera or recorder that speaks RTSP, which is most of what is already on a storefront.
Some cameras can already make a noise, but only when you open an app and press a button. At two in the morning nobody does. Ocula is the part that notices, decides it is worth saying something, and says it without you.
The unit runs off a normal outlet and sits with your recorder. Nothing gets replaced, and your cameras keep doing exactly what they already do.
One of these is a real person. Pick which.
Same warning, three voices. Your shop picks the one that fits its street.
Play all three, then tap the one you think is human.
None of them. All three are Ocula.
If it can fool you sitting here with time to think, it works on someone standing in the dark deciding whether to keep going.
The best break in is the one that ends at the door.
Ocula puts a human voice on your doorway at the moment it matters. Not a siren. Not a recording playing to an empty street. Somebody speaks, and the single thing the whole attempt was built on is gone: nobody knew they were there.
Now somebody does. Somebody could be describing them right now. Somebody might already be on the phone. Nothing about your door changed. Everything about the risk did.
The guard monitoring industry's own figure for what a live voice does before anything is forced, taken or broken.
It is why warehouses, car lots and construction sites pay $300 to $800 a month for a voice on a speaker, every month, for years. Nobody was ever going to offer that to a shop on a strip.
- 1
Software spots a person on the camera.
- 2
An alert goes to somebody sitting in a monitoring room.
- 3
That person pulls up the camera and looks.
- 4
They decide it is worth saying something.
- 5
They speak through a speaker on the property.
Monitoring companies publish the time from spotting someone to speaking to them: 15 to 30 seconds. Step one is already software, at every one of those companies. A person does steps two, three and four. That person is the entire reason it costs $500 a month, and those three steps are what Ocula is.
Which is why nobody hurries to them any more, and why an alarm on your door is mostly a noise. Ocula only speaks when a person is actually standing there.
United States Department of Justice, COPS OfficeSame cameras. Nobody watching. Where somebody does watch and act, crime fell about 15%.
161 studies, 1978 to 2017 (Piza, Welsh, Farrington, Thomas)of burglars said they would pick a different target if cameras were watching them. 83% check for an alarm first, and more than half leave when they find one.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 422 incarcerated burglarsOnly two of these say anything to the person at your door. One of them is priced like a camera.
See it beside a camera, an alarm and a guard
We are not the first to point a voice at an intruder. We are the first to make it cheap enough for a corner store, because nobody has to be paid to watch.
Nobody watches your cameras. Not even us.
This is the part people forget to ask about, and it is the real difference between the two things that talk.
How that actually works
Monitoring companies
- ·Your feed is sent to an operations centre.
- ·Staff you have never met can pull up your shop.
- ·That is not a flaw in how they work, it is how they work. A person has to be watching for anyone to speak.
Ocula
- ·The watching happens on the box in your shop.
- ·No human being ever looks inside your store, including us.
- ·Clips stay on your box, expire on a schedule you set, and only leave if you send one.
What you are actually paying for.
Not software. These are the things a shopkeeper notices.
What that looks like day to day
Most of this is people trying doors to see which one gives. The ones that answer back get skipped.
Word travels on a street. A door that talks is a door that stops being worth the walk.
You only hear from it when something genuinely will not leave. Everything else waits until morning.
Your staff and your customers never know it is there. It is off duty while you are open.
Works with most shop systems already installed. We check yours before you agree to anything.
Watching and speaking both happen on site, so it keeps working without the internet.
If the feed drops or the box stops, you hear about it in minutes, not weeks.
I am not selling you this from another city.
I know which doors get tried, at what hour, and why one shop on a strip gets hit and the one beside it does not.
I am seventeen and I have lived in Scarborough my whole life. Most security products are designed by people who have read about break ins.
That shows up in the product. Ocula stays quiet almost all night, speaks only when someone stops or reaches for a handle, and never calls the police for you. All three came from watching how this plays out here.
- ·I connect the unit to your recorder myself
- ·I sit down with you to set your hours
- ·When something is wrong, you text me, not a queue
Nearly half of Canada's small businesses were hit last year.
It was 24% the year before. It nearly doubled in twelve months.
Canadian Federation of Independent Business, 2024And it is not only break ins. Vandalism and tagging. Smashed glass. People sleeping or drinking in the doorway. Deliveries taken off the step. Someone at the back door who will not leave. Most owners have never been fully burgled. Almost all of them have the rest of it.
The median small business has spent $5,000 in the last three years replacing what was taken and repairing what was broken. That is before the morning you could not open, and before the deductible you decided not to claim because the premium would go up.
Only a third are satisfied with how fast police respond. Which makes sense, because 94 to 98% of the alarm calls police get are false, so nobody hurries any more.
You are already paying for this.
You pay the glazier, the locksmith, the deductible, and whoever walked off with it. None of them stopped it happening. They just cleaned up after.
You do not need it to work often. You need it to work once.
One price. Nothing to buy up front.
You are paying for the watching and the talking, not for hardware you already own.
Judge it on your own doorway before you pay
The speaker is easy to believe. The hard part is trusting it to decide correctly at your door. So for the first seven nights it makes every decision and carries none of them out, and you check its work in the morning.
It learns your hours, your entrance and your regulars. Nothing about your shop changes and nobody hears a sound.
The night in writing. Everyone it saw, who it would have spoken to, who it deliberately left alone, and how long each one stayed.
You know your street. If it would have spoken to your bread delivery you will see that on day two and walk away having lost nothing.
Nobody has ever watched your door at three in the morning. Not you, not the police, not whoever sold you the cameras. So nobody knows whether people stop there, how often, or when.
After seven nights you will know what actually happens outside your shop at night, whether you buy anything or not.
See a real morning report
Ocula · Morning Report · Your shop · Tuesday 14 July Still silent. 2 would have got a word tonight. - 1:17 AM · person passed through (11s). Left alone. - 2:14 AM · someone stopped at the door and stayed (38s). Ocula would have spoken. - 3:51 AM · someone stopped at the door and stayed (22s). Ocula would have spoken. - 5:20 AM · person passed through (9s). Left alone. - Also 2 brief passes, all ignored. The numbers: 6 visits, 2 would have been spoken to, 4 silent. On watch for 9h 20m. · Ocula
The week costs me a visit, the unit, and my time tuning it to your door. I would rather spend that and be told no than talk someone into something wrong for their street.
Read the reports for a week before you decide. If they do not convince you, you owe nothing.
Start a free week- ·The voice, on your own cameras
- ·Texts when it matters
- ·Clip saved for every incident
- ·A report every morning
- ·Incident report for insurers
- ·Alerts if it ever stops
- ·Set up in person, by us
- ·Cancel any month
- ·Refunded if you change your mind in month one
The things shop owners actually ask.
Type a question and it will find the answer. If there is not one, it says so and hands you my number.
Will it shout at my customers or the mail carrier?
No, because it is only on duty during the hours you are closed, and even then it stays quiet for anyone walking normally to the door. It reacts to someone who stops, lingers, or goes for a handle inside the area you point it at. During opening hours it is an ordinary camera.
My camera already has two way audio. Why do I need this?
Because two way audio only works when you are awake, holding your phone, watching the right feed and choosing to press a button. Nobody is doing that at two in the morning, which is when it matters. Ocula is the part that notices, decides it is worth saying something, and says it, without you being involved at all. The speaker is not the product. The judgement is.
Do I have to buy new cameras?
No. It works with most shop systems already installed, including Hikvision, Dahua, Lorex, Reolink and most recorders. We check yours before you agree to anything. If yours will not work, we tell you and there is no charge.
What happens if my internet drops?
Watching and speaking both happen on site, so a dropped connection does not mute it. Texts to you obviously need a connection, and if the feed or the box itself goes down you get told within minutes rather than finding out weeks later.
Does it call the police?
Never, and that is deliberate. It tells you what happened and hands you the clip, and calling anyone is your decision. You know your street, your neighbours and your situation better than any piece of software does.
What if it gets it wrong?
The first thing it ever says is a calm question, the kind of thing that is fine to say to a person who turns out to be innocent. It only gets firmer if someone keeps doing what made it speak. Below its confidence threshold it stays silent and just records.
Will it wake my neighbours or the flats upstairs?
It speaks, it does not blare. Think of a person saying a firm sentence from your doorway, not an alarm. The speaker is aimed at the door rather than the street, most nights it says nothing at all, and when it does it is a few seconds. If your building is tight against flats we set the volume together on the install and you can turn it down any time.
Could talking to someone make them angry and cause damage?
It is a fair worry, and it is why the first thing it ever says is calm and impersonal rather than a challenge. It does not insult anyone, threaten anyone, or claim to be police. Almost everyone who gets spoken to at that hour leaves quickly, because the point is not to win an argument, it is to tell them they have been noticed and this door is more effort than the next one. If someone does escalate, you are getting a text and the whole thing is on video.
Do I need an electrician, and does anything get replaced?
No to both. The unit plugs into an ordinary outlet and sits beside your recorder, and your existing cameras keep doing exactly what they do now. Nothing is rewired, nothing is thrown away, and nothing arrives in the post for you to work out. We bring it and connect it.
Who installs it, and how long does it take?
We do, in person, usually under an hour. We connect a small box to your existing recorder, put a speaker where it can be heard at the door, set your hours and mark the area that matters. You do not need to install an app or learn anything.
What does it cost, and can I cancel?
$99 a month, and the first week is free. There is no contract and no cancellation fee, so you can stop anytime. If you want to stop, tell us and we come take the equipment back. Live guard monitoring, which is the closest thing to this, runs $300 to $800 a month because a person is being paid to watch a screen.
Is my footage private? Who can see it?
Your recordings stay on your own recorder, the way they do today. Ocula watches the feed to decide whether to speak, and keeps short clips of the moments it did speak so you have a record. We do not sell footage, we do not use it for advertising, and nobody is sitting somewhere watching your shop. You can ask us to delete anything at any time.
What about my dog, a raccoon, or a cat walking past?
It only reacts to people. Animals, headlights and blowing garbage do not trigger it, because the detection is looking for a person and nothing else. That is also why it does not shout at everything that moves the way a motion alarm does.