Digital twins for industrial sites
A digital twin of how your site actually runs
Built from the footage your security cameras already record, not from drawings and assumptions. Then AI simulation tests a better layout and flow, so you see the hours and dollars saved before anyone moves a pallet.
- No new hardware
- Checked against weeks of your own footage
- No faces, no audio
Why it's different
Most digital twins start from a drawing.
Ours starts from your footage.
A twin is only as good as what it's built on. A model fed with assumed cycle times shows how your site should run. Ours is fed with what your cameras recorded, so it shows how it does run, and you can check it.
A typical twin
- Built from CAD drawings and vendor averages
- Cycle times assumed or taken from a short time study
- Shows how the site should run
- Rarely checked against reality
A Veridical twin
- Built from weeks of your own camera footage
- Every truck, door and forklift trip measured, hour by hour
- Shows how the site does run, bottlenecks included
- Checked against weeks we held back, with an accuracy table
How it works
From the footage you already have to a plan you can trust
An example warehouse with five ordinary cameras. Scroll through the five steps. Illustrative example site · not a client
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01 · Evidence
Your cameras already see it
Outside, every truck is tracked from the gate to its door, and every door gets its own clock: how long a trailer stays, how long the door sits empty. More on dock and yard studies.
Doors 1–3 busy all morning, doors 7–8 mostly idle
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02 · Evidence
AI measures every move, for weeks
Inside, forklift trips are found and tracked on every camera that can see them. Put on one map, a blocked aisle stands out: every trip there takes the long way around. People are blurred; we never identify anyone.
Aisle 5 blocked: 17 trips so far, ~34 m extra each
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03 · Twin
One twin of the whole site
Each camera sees a slice. We combine them into one 3D model of your site that runs on the measured arrivals, dwell times and trips. Before you rely on it, we replay weeks we held back and show you how closely it matched. More on the digital twin.
Checked on held-back weeks measured twin Truck dwell, 7–8 am 38 min 36 min Trucks per day 41 42 Forklift idle share 31 % 29 % -
04 · Twin
See where the time goes
Follow the work from door to rack. Trucks unload at the east doors, but most forklift trips run to the far west aisles. The busiest stock sits farthest from where it arrives: the layout grew with the business, not with the flow.
55 % of forklift time is driving · average round trip 174 m
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05 · Simulation
Test the better layout first
AI simulation replays the same measured trips on a new layout: the busiest stock in the aisles nearest the busy doors, aisle 5 cleared. You see the result before anyone moves a pallet, then the cameras check it on the floor. More on layout and forklift travel.
−34 % forklift driving · about 7 forklift-hours a shift
The proof
Today vs the simulated layout, on the same trips
Drag the handle. Same site, same morning of measured forklift trips: the left is the layout as it grew, the right is the layout the simulation recommends.
Illustrative example site. On your site, every number comes from your own footage.
Turn hours into dollars, with your numbers
The twin gives the hours. Your cost per forklift-hour turns them into dollars. Change any field.
Arithmetic on the example's hours, not a promise. Your study measures your own hours, and we re-measure after the change.
Proven twice
The twin is calibrated on some weeks and tested on weeks it never saw. You get the accuracy table, so you know how far to trust its forecast.
The same cameras measure again. You see the forecast next to what really happened, in the same units.
Illustrative.
Working with us
Six steps, and you can stop after any of them
We start with one area, such as the docks, at a fixed price. Everything you receive is yours to keep, including the twin and the data.
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Discovery call
Your business, your goals and your cameras.
free - 2
See a sample twin
We walk you through a model like the one above and what it can simulate.
free - 3
Guided walk-through
We tour the site with you, capture it on video, and you export footage from your recorder.
half a day of your time - 4
Baseline twin + findings
How your site runs today, with the accuracy table and the biggest losses ranked.
fixed quote - 5
Simulate + plan
Changes tested on the twin, savings in hours and dollars, and a step-by-step plan tied to your long-term goals.
fixed quote - 6
Hand-off + re-measure
You keep the twin, findings and data. We re-measure after changes, and help with AI and automation if you want it.
when you're ready
What you keep
Everything we build is yours
No subscription, no lock-in.
We study flow, never people
Full version: privacy promise and policy.
Built for sites where things move all day
Industrial sites in Lake County and north Cook County, Illinois.
What people ask first
What is a digital twin, here?
A working 3D model of your site that behaves like the real one: trucks arrive, doors fill, forklifts drive, at the rates we measured from your footage. It isn't a live system wired into your equipment. It runs on the weeks we measured, and comes with a table showing how closely it matched weeks it never saw. If you later want it kept up to date from new footage, we'll quote that separately.
Do we need to buy cameras or software?
No. We work from the cameras and recorder you already have, plus one guided walk-through. If a question needs a view you don't have, we'll say so and suggest the cheapest fix, often re-aiming a camera you already own.
How do you know the savings are real?
Twice. Before: the twin is tested on held-back weeks, so you see how accurate its forecasts are. After: your cameras measure the change, and you see the forecast next to what really happened.
Where do the dollar figures come from?
The twin measures hours, distances and waits. We turn those into dollars with your own costs (labour, equipment, detention fees), agreed with you, so every dollar traces back to a measured hour.
Will you watch or rate our employees?
No. We count and time trucks, trailers, pallets and forklifts. People appear only as anonymous, blurred movement. We never identify anyone, and reports never single out a person.
How much footage do you need?
As much as your recorder keeps, often two to four weeks. The footage already exists, so there's nothing to wait for.
What does it cost?
It depends on the area, the number of cameras and the weeks of footage. After the free discovery call we give you a fixed quote for the first step. No subscription, no hourly billing.
Is this done with AI?
Yes. Computer-vision models detect and track vehicles and equipment on our own hardware, simulation runs the what-ifs, and AI tools (including Anthropic's Claude) help with the analysis and writing. People check a sample of every number by hand.
See your own site as a twin
Start with a free discovery call. We'll talk through your goals and your cameras, and show you a sample twin. We reply within one business day.
Prefer email? hello@veridicalinsights.com