What Stepps does

Stepps is a Brazilian private company, founded in 2019 and headquartered in the Porto Digital technology hub in Recife, that develops AI-powered video analytics software for industrial environments. Its product is the Stepps Platform, a modular system that connects to customers' existing CCTV infrastructure and offers four specialized modules — StepSafe for safety and PPE/access monitoring, StepScan for visual quality inspection, StepMotion for human action and workstation analysis, and StepID for biometric access control. The underlying technology is computer vision with edge processing that discards images immediately after analysis for data privacy, and the platform is customized per customer environment.

The company's primary customer segment is industrial manufacturing, with agribusiness as a secondary vertical. Stepps generates revenue through annual subscription-based software licensing with quote-based pricing that varies by module mix. Go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales combined with demo booking through the company website, supported by a strategic partnership with Schmersal Group — a global industrial safety hardware provider with 2,000 employees and operations in more than 50 countries — which gives Stepps on-site distribution across six continents without proportional internal headcount. Disclosed customer outcomes include an 87% reduction in quality analysis and visual inspection time.

Operationally, Stepps is sub-scale by traditional benchmarks (1-10 employees, no disclosed funding rounds, no named management team in the available sources), with GDPR-aligned privacy practices and an emphasis on integration interoperability. The business model is inherently anchored on a small number of large enterprise contracts, and the Schmersal relationship functions simultaneously as a customer, channel partner, and source of global reach — making partnership health a central variable for the company's commercial trajectory.

Name

Stepps

Legal name

Stepps

Website

https://stepps.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Stepps is a Brazilian AI company that sells a modular computer vision video analytics platform for industrial safety, quality inspection, human performance, and biometric access control, connecting to existing CCTV and distributed globally through a partnership with Schmersal Group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Recife

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Software Platform Subscription: Stepps Platform combines video analytics tools focused on increasing safety and efficiency of industrial processes. The platform connects to existing CCTV cameras and is customized per customer environment. Revenue appears to be generated through software licensing and platform access.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Stepps provides an AI-powered video analytics platform that connects to customers' existing CCTV infrastructure to deliver continuous monitoring for industrial environments. The platform is offered as a modular ecosystem with specialized solutions for workplace safety (StepSafe), quality inspection (StepScan), human performance analysis (StepMotion), and biometric access control (StepID).

Product overview

Stepps offers a platform-plus-modules architecture consisting of the Stepps Platform as the core unified product, with four specialized AI-powered modules: StepSafe (risk isolation), StepScan (quality inspection), StepMotion (human performance), and StepID (biometric access control). The platform connects to existing CCTV infrastructure and provides video analytics across industrial safety, quality control, operational efficiency, and security applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• StepSafe: Risk isolation solution that recognizes PPE use, monitors access in controlled environments, detects accidents, and identifies proximity to dangerous objects.
• StepScan
• StepMotion
• StepID

Products and services

• Stepps Platform Modular video analytics platform that combines AI-powered tools to increase safety and efficiency of industrial processes. Connects to existing CCTV cameras and provides customizable dashboards with real-time insights for industrial customers.
• StepSafe Risk isolation solution for industrial safety that recognizes PPE use during task execution, monitors access in controlled environments, detects accidents and generates alerts, and identifies proximity to dangerous objects such as overhead cranes. Built for industrial EHS and safety teams.
• StepScan Quality pattern recognition system that analyzes shape, dimensions, counting, visual defects, conformity (e.g., hole detection), and trend analysis. Designed for industrial quality control teams seeking automated visual inspection.
• StepMotion Human performance and action recognition solution that performs workstation-segmented analysis, evaluates routine compliance and checklists, identifies equipment usage patterns and defects, and provides real-time continuous chronoanalysis. Built for operations and productivity teams.
• StepID Biometric access control solution with high-precision, anti-spoofing facial recognition for secure facility access, authorization for industrial machine operation, and activity monitoring. Designed for security and operations teams in industrial environments.

Quantifiable outcome

• 87% reduction in quality analysis and visual inspection time
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Schmersal GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStepps has joined forces with Schmersal, a global leader in industrial safety. The partnership combines Schmersal's safety devices and solutions with Stepps' computer vision systems, bringing together Brazil and Germany to deliver transformative industrial solutions. Schmersal provides global presence across more than 50 countries, 2,000 employees, and 18,000 products including sensors and interlocking systems.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BriefCam: BriefCam provides video analytics software that plugs into existing CCTV infrastructure for security, safety, and operational insights. It is a direct peer in overlaying AI on legacy cameras for enterprise and industrial customers.
• IronYun (Vaidio): IronYun's Vaidio AI Vision Platform analyzes video from existing camera systems for safety, security, and operational analytics. It is a direct peer in AI video analytics that integrates with installed CCTV infrastructure for industrial and enterprise customers.
• Voxel AI: Voxel applies computer vision to workplace safety and risk detection in industrial and warehouse environments. It is a close direct peer to Stepps' StepSafe module, addressing PPE compliance, near-miss detection, and safety monitoring using existing camera infrastructure.

Broad incumbents

• Keyence Corporation: Keyence provides industrial sensors, measurement systems, and machine vision products worldwide. It overlaps with Stepps in industrial quality and presence-detection use cases but sells primarily hardware-centric solutions rather than CCTV-overlay AI software.
• Cognex Corporation: Cognex is a global leader in industrial machine vision and barcode reading. It is comparable as an established incumbent offering vision-based quality inspection and factory automation, though it spans a much broader hardware-centric portfolio than Stepps' software-only CCTV-overlay approach.
• Avigilon (Motorola Solutions): Avigilon, owned by Motorola Solutions, offers video surveillance and AI analytics for enterprise and industrial sites. It is a broad incumbent peer combining hardware cameras with embedded AI analytics, overlapping with Stepps' safety and access-control use cases.

Emerging players

• Landing AI: Landing AI builds computer vision platforms for manufacturing quality and defect detection, led by Andrew Ng. It is comparable as an emerging AI-vision player targeting the same industrial inspection use cases StepScan addresses.
• Prophesee: Prophesee develops event-based vision sensors and AI for industrial automation, quality control, and safety monitoring. It is an emerging peer applying neuromorphic computer vision to similar industrial use cases Stepps targets.
• Clarifai: Clarifai provides a computer vision AI platform used for industrial visual inspection, workplace safety, and operational analytics. It is an emerging platform peer that enables similar CCTV-overlay AI capabilities as Stepps.
• SparkCognition: SparkCognition offers industrial AI solutions including visual inspection and asset monitoring across manufacturing and energy. It competes with Stepps in applying computer vision and AI to industrial operations and predictive maintenance.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/steppsinc

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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