Verification comes before intelligence
Detection on a camera that stopped recording three weeks ago is theatre. The industry sells the clever part and assumes the boring part works. The boring part is the product.
ABOUT BLEPO
We started because the cameras
weren't working.
Not missing. Not unplugged. Mounted, powered, blinking and not recording a thing.
Blepo comes out of a job, not a whiteboard. Our Founder is a software developer who also installs CCTV and the same conversation kept happening on site.
Something goes wrong. A break-in at the back gate, a dispute at the loading bay, a theft from the store. Somebody pulls up the footage for the morning it happened, and it is not there. The disk filled in week two. The lens fogged over in the rains. The recorder stopped writing after a power cut and came back up looking perfectly healthy. A cable was knocked loose by a contractor in March and nobody looked at that camera again until August.
The cameras were never the problem. Every one of them was bought, mounted and paid for. The problem is that after the installer’s invoice clears, nobody in the entire chain is paid to know whether it still works. The manufacturer sold a box. The installer was paid for the installation. The guard company is paid to be present. The owner finds out on the one morning it matters.
That gap is not a technology failure. It is an incentive failure, and it is the whole reason this company exists.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Four positions, and we will argue for all of them.
Work with the hardware already on the wall
Nobody in this market is replacing a functioning estate of cameras because a vendor prefers their own. We read what is installed Hikvision, Dahua, Axis, Uniview, anything speaking ONVIF and we read it without write access, because a product that can brick an NVR is unsellable.
A record beats a dashboard
A dashboard tells you what a company thinks. A record signed at your site, chained so it cannot be quietly rewritten, is something you can hand to an insurer or a court. We would rather be checkable than trusted.
The installer is the customer
The person who fitted the cameras already has the relationship, already visits the site, and has never had recurring revenue. We sell through them and they keep the customer. That is not a channel tactic, it is the shape of the company.
THE LIMIT
Some things we have decided we will never do.
Blepo watches places where people work and live. That is a serious thing to be trusted with, and the only way to be trusted with it is to say in advance what we will not do then publish it, so it can be held against us.
We do not sell raw footage.
We do not sell identity data.
We do not run one-to-many face search the database cannot do it.
We do not give bulk access to state actors absent lawful process.
These are limits on the business, not settings we can change when a large cheque appears. They are written into how the system is built the schema has no query that can match a face against everyone, so it is not a policy we enforce, it is a thing that cannot happen. The detail is in our Privacy Policy.
WHERE WE ARE
Early, and we would rather say so.
Blepo is a young company building its first layer: proving that the cameras on a site are actually recording, and producing a signed record that says so. We are doing that with installers in Lagos, on estates and premises that already have equipment in place.
We are deliberately not claiming to be more than that yet. The detection features, the additional sensor classes, the wider record all of it is real work in progress, and where it appears on this site it is labelled by build order rather than dressed up as shipping. You will be able to tell the difference, because we would rather you found out from us.
If you install cameras for a living, or you own an estate where the footage has let you down at least once, we would like to talk. We will audit one of your sites for free and tell you what we find, including if the answer is that everything is fine.
Legal entityBlepo
RegisteredLagos, Nigeria
Founded2026
ProductBlepo
Contactinfo@blepo.io