What Plainsight does

Plainsight Technologies Inc. is a private computer vision AI infrastructure company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Stuart, Florida. The company provides an end-to-end platform for building, deploying, and managing computer vision applications, serving customers primarily in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) and fast-casual sector with documented production deployments across 300+ locations, alongside manufacturing, public safety, and embedded vision provider segments. The platform is architecturally centered on Filters — modular, Docker-packaged computer vision processing units that chain into directed pipelines for complex vision workflows, with GPU-accelerated AI inference and CPU-based video processing supported across edge, batch, and cloud deployment targets.

The product portfolio combines the open source OpenFilter framework (Apache 2.0-licensed, described as the world's most popular open source CV workload management framework), its commercial sibling OpenFilter Plus, and the Plainsight Platform — an enterprise VizOps layer for managing the full CV lifecycle from data collection through model training, deployment, and monitoring. Supporting proprietary tools include Protege (model training and evaluation with hyperparameter sweeps), Jester (data ingestion), Quality Gate and Al Haytham (benchmarking and validation), the Filter SDK, and Vision Flow/Stream/Edge orchestration services. Integrations with Encord (data labeling) and Weights & Biases (experiment tracking) anchor the data and training workflows. Leadership consists of CEO Jonathan Simkins and Chief Revenue Officer Alexander Gallagher, with the company having acquired Sixgill in late 2023 and raised $12M from DRW Venture Capital in May 2024.

Plainsight monetizes through subscription-based OpenFilter Plus tiers priced per replica (deployment environment rather than headcount), enterprise Plainsight Platform subscriptions requiring an OpenFilter Plus tier, and professional services delivered via Forward Deployed Engineers. The go-to-market is dual-motion: a product-led growth funnel through the open source OpenFilter community (Discord, GitHub, openfilter.io) feeding into paid tiers, paired with enterprise field sales targeting large multi-unit QSR operators, manufacturers, and public safety organizations. The pricing model and Forward Deployed Engineer engagement structure produce a mix of recurring subscription revenue and higher-margin implementation services tied to enterprise anchor accounts.

Name

Plainsight

Legal name

Plainsight Technologies Inc.

Website

https://plainsight.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Plainsight provides an end-to-end computer vision AI platform that enables enterprises to build, deploy, and monitor vision applications at scale. It serves primarily quick-service restaurants alongside manufacturing, public safety, and embedded vision providers through its open source OpenFilter framework and commercial VizOps platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Computer Vision AI Platform

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Facilities Management Services (541513)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) for Compute (HDABADAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Managed Application Platforms (App PaaS & Runtime Services) (HDABAAAD), Real-Time Vision at the Edge (on-device CV/video) (HDAAAJAE)

Keywords

• Computer vision platform
• Vision AI infrastructure
• AI model training
• Video analytics software
• Edge AI deployment

Headquarters

HQ city

Stuart

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. OpenFilter Plus Subscriptions: Commercial subscription tiers providing support, maintenance, and enterprise features for the OpenFilter open source project. Pricing is based on replicas (deployment environments) rather than user count, with volume discounts for scaling replicas and multi-year commitments. Entry-level tiers are startup-friendly with low monthly costs.
2. Plainsight Platform (VizOps): Enterprise-grade VizOps platform requiring an OpenFilter Plus subscription to manage replicas. Provides full lifecycle management for computer vision applications including model training, deployment, and monitoring.
3. Professional Services / Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE): Dedicated engineers from Plainsight who work closely with customer teams on implementation, application development, training, and custom filter builds. All filters created through FDE engagements belong to the customer.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Plainsight builds and sells an enterprise computer vision AI platform (the Plainsight Platform, branded VizOps) for managing the full computer vision lifecycle — data collection, model training, filter/pipeline development, deployment, and monitoring — across edge, cloud, and hybrid environments. Its commercial offering centers on OpenFilter Plus, the enterprise support tier for the open source OpenFilter framework (Apache 2.0) that uses modular, Docker-packaged "Filters" chained into vision pipelines. The company also delivers Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) professional services for custom implementation and filter builds, and packages vertical solutions for restaurants, manufacturing, and public safety.

Product overview

Plainsight offers a unified computer vision AI platform built around the Plainsight Platform and OpenFilter ecosystem. The core Plainsight Platform provides enterprise-grade VizOps for managing the complete computer vision lifecycle, while OpenFilter Plus delivers commercial support for the open source OpenFilter framework. The product suite includes specialized solutions for restaurants, public safety, and manufacturing, backed by professional services with Forward Deployed Engineers. Supporting tools include Protege for model training and evaluation, Jester for data ingestion, Vision Flow/Stream/Edge for deployment orchestration, Al Haytham for testing and validation, and the Filter SDK for custom filter development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• OpenFilter: World's most popular open source computer vision workload management framework.
• OpenFilter Plus
• Plainsight Platform
• Protege
• Jester
• Quality Gate
• Vision Flow
• Vision Stream
• Vision Edge

Products and services

• Plainsight Platform (VizOps) Enterprise VizOps platform for building and maintaining reliable computer vision systems. Manages the entire computer vision lifecycle from data collection and model training to deployment and monitoring, with full visibility and precise evaluation from development through production. Requires any OpenFilter Plus tier to manage replicas.
• OpenFilter Plus

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% reduction in manual video wrangling
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability4 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• EncordcoreTechnology or IntegrationEncord is Plainsight's preferred labeling platform for image dataset annotation. The integration enables customers to manage, curate, and annotate AI data within Encord, which is then fed into Protege for model training. Plainsight's labeling workflow documentation is built around Encord's platform, including dataset creation, ontology setup, and workflow configuration.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Scale AI: Scale AI is a broad AI data platform (with a strong computer vision vertical) covering labeling, evaluation, and increasingly fine-tuning/inference. It overlaps with Plainsight's data curation and lifecycle tooling but operates at much greater scale and capital intensity.
• AWS (Panorama / Lookout for Vision): AWS Panorama and Lookout for Vision offer managed computer vision services integrated into the AWS cloud, providing on-premises and cloud inference along with ML pipeline tooling. It is the largest broad incumbent competing with Plainsight's edge, batch, and cloud orchestration story.

Direct peers

• Clarifai: Clarifai provides a full-stack computer vision and AI platform covering data labeling, model training, and deployment at scale. It targets similar enterprise customers and offers overlapping capabilities to Plainsight's Platform + VizOps, particularly around production-grade CV operations.
• Roboflow: Roboflow offers a developer-facing platform for building, training, and deploying computer vision models with dataset management and inference APIs. It directly competes with Plainsight across data ingestion (Jester vs. Roboflow's dataset tools), training (Protege vs. Roboflow Train), and deployment, making it the closest open-ecosystem peer.
• Viso.ai: Viso.ai offers a no-code/low-code computer vision application platform (Viso Suite) for building, deploying, and managing vision AI pipelines across edge and cloud. It mirrors Plainsight's modular pipeline + multi-environment orchestration positioning for enterprise CV operations.
• Landing AI: Landing AI (Andrew Ng's company) provides an enterprise computer vision platform centered on visual inspection for manufacturing, with tools for data, training, and deployment. It directly compares to Plainsight's manufacturing solutions and lifecycle platform approach.
• Superb AI: Superb AI provides a computer vision platform for data management, labeling, model training, and deployment with active learning loops. It's a direct competitor to Plainsight's Protege/Active Learning/Jester stack within enterprise CV pipelines.

Others

• Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases (W&B) is the experiment tracking and MLOps platform already integrated into Plainsight's Protege. It is an enabler/ecosystem partner rather than a head-to-head competitor, but its broader MLOps suite overlaps partially with Plainsight's VizOps ambitions for ML lifecycle management.

Emerging players

• Voxel51: Voxel51 builds FiftyOne, an open source toolkit for computer vision dataset curation and model evaluation, plus enterprise tools. Its open source + paid model mirrors Plainsight's OpenFilter/OpenFilter Plus structure and overlaps on the data curation and quality benchmarking dimensions.
• Encord: Encord is a data-centric AI platform for labeling, curation, and evaluation of training data; Plainsight already integrates Encord as its preferred labeling partner. While partly partner and partly adjacent competitor, Encord's active learning and dataset tooling overlaps with parts of Plainsight's Protege/Jester workflow.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• GitHubgithub.com/PlainsightAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/plainsightai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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

M&A1 record

Investments

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

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