Most AI video analytics demos are impressive. Far fewer survive procurement.
I have spent more than two decades selling technology into governments, critical infrastructure operators, and large enterprises across the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. The pattern does not change. The vendor shows a highlight reel. The buyer asks who owns the model, whether it runs air gapped, and what happens when it is wrong. That is usually where the conversation ends.
I work on the other side of that gap.
Today I run the META region for Scylla, where we build behavioral AI that turns cameras a customer already owns into real time threat detection. Before that I built the channel across the Middle East, Turkey, India, and Africa for icetana AI from nothing. No existing partners, no local brand recognition. I closed the largest contract in the company's history, a government safe city deployment covering facial recognition, license plate recognition, crowd analytics, and anomaly detection.
What I actually do:
I help buyers separate real capability from marketing language. That means asking the questions procurement will ask anyway, six months earlier, while there is still time to change the answer.
I protect the partner ecosystem. Integrators and monitoring centres built the trust in this region. A technology vendor that quietly becomes your monitoring provider is not a partner.
I work where data sovereignty is policy, not preference. On premises, air gapped, and explainable are not features in this market. They are entry requirements.
Government | Safe Cities | Critical Infrastructure | Airports | Banking | Telecom | Oil & Gas
Middle East | Turkey | Africa
Evaluating AI video analytics? Message me. I will tell you in ten minutes whether it is real.