RESPOND · BRIEFING MODE
No operator starts a shift cold.
At each operator’s local shift start, Sentinel assembles a personal intelligence brief — a bottom-line-up-front headline, what changed overnight, and the three things worth doing first. No more lost hour figuring out what happened on the last shift.
Click to enlargeA brief per operator, every shift — assembled while they slept.
A brief that writes itself, for each operator, every shift.
Each operator receives a personal brief timed to their own shift start — not a generic blast — covering the previous 24 hours within their camera and watchlist scope.
- One brief per operator, per shift — keyed to each recipient and period, generated once and never duplicated
- Timed to local shift start — time-zone-aware and DST-safe, so the brief is waiting at sign-in
- Confidence rating on every brief — high / medium / low, from coverage, data freshness, and scope completeness
- Explicit quiet-shift brief — a "Quiet shift" state, not a blank page, when there’s nothing notable to report
- Reliable by design — generation retries on transient failure and flags clearly if it can’t complete
Click to enlargeA confidence rating on every brief — high, medium, or low — computed from data completeness.
The whole estate’s overnight, in seven readable sections.
Seven sections cover the full surface a control room cares about — from watchlist hits to camera health — each a card the operator can expand or skim.
- Watchlist hits — every match against a watched subject in the period, with confidence and where it landed
- Pattern-of-life deviations — subjects who broke their normal pattern overnight, not just those who appeared
- Predictions — how the platform’s earlier behavioral predictions played out, so the room can calibrate trust
- Counter-surveillance flags — movement patterns consistent with hostile reconnaissance, surfaced for review
- Compliance items — subject-access queue, retention expiries, and suppression activity the shift needs to action
- Audit anomalies — unusual operator activity flagged by deterministic rules: bulk deletions, off-hours actions
- Telemetry & camera health — cameras that went offline, degraded, or recovered overnight
Click to enlargeSeven sections, each muteable per operator — so the brief reflects what they actually own.
Not just what happened. What to do about it.
"Your Day" turns a read of the past into a plan for the present — the top three actions drawn from all seven sections, diversity-ranked so one noisy category can’t crowd out the rest.
- Top-three prioritized actions — the few things worth doing first, every shift
- Drawn from all seven sections — watchlist, deviations, predictions, compliance, audit, and camera health all feed the ranking
- Diversity-aware ranking — spread across source types so one noisy category can’t crowd out the rest
- Action, not just information — turns a read of the past into a plan for the present
Click to enlarge"Your Day" — three ranked actions drawn from all seven sections, prioritized and ready.
In-app, by email, and as a sealed PDF.
Every brief reaches the operator in-app at sign-in, by email at shift start, and as an attached PDF — and lives permanently in a searchable archive.
- In-app — waiting at sign-in, with a sidebar freshness indicator and a Command Center hero card for unread briefs
- Email — delivered at shift start with the brief inline, using your branded email template
- PDF — attached to the email and downloadable on demand; rendered server-side, fetched through a signed link
- Permanent archive — every brief keeps a stable URL and is searchable by date and recipient
Click to enlargeEach operator sets their own shift start, cadence, section mutes, and scope.
Tuned to each operator
Schedule, scope, and sections — each operator’s own.
Shift start per operator
The brief arrives on each operator’s own local clock — time-zone-aware and DST-safe, so it’s waiting at sign-in, not hours early or late.
Cadence control
Daily, weekly, or disabled — per recipient. No one receives a brief they’ve opted out of.
Section mutes
Opt out of any of the seven sections that aren’t your responsibility. A perimeter operator doesn’t wade through the compliance queue.
Camera & watchlist scope
Restrict the brief to the cameras and watchlist categories the operator owns — so the brief is about their estate, not the whole organization’s.
Org-wide defaults
Standard shift start, auto-enrolled roles, estate-wide section mutes, and retention — applied to new operators automatically from their first shift.
Thumbs feedback
A one-tap relevance signal on every brief — a quiet signal back to the system about whether it was useful, tuning future briefs over time.
Delivered three ways
How the brief reaches every operator.
In-app
Waiting at sign-in on the Briefing page, with a freshness indicator in the sidebar and a hero card on the Command Center that surfaces an unread brief the moment the operator arrives.
By email
Delivered at shift start with the brief inline, using your branded email template. Every operator receives it on their own clock — not a generic broadcast.
As a sealed PDF
Attached to the email and downloadable on demand — rendered server-side and retrieved via a short-lived signed link rather than an exposed URL. Portable and shareable.
Permanent archive
Every brief keeps a stable URL and lives in a searchable archive, so an operator — or an auditor — can pull up any shift’s intelligence picture long after the shift ends.
How it works
From a night of events to a one-minute read.
Data plane
Across the previous 24 hours, every camera’s detections, watchlist matches, behavioral deviations, prediction outcomes, compliance events, audit records, and camera-health telemetry accumulate as structured data within each operator’s scope.
Assembled at shift start
A scheduler wakes for each recipient at their own local shift start, reads their period within their scope, and assembles the seven sections, the confidence rating, the BLUF headline, and the "Your Day" actions — once, deterministically, with a retry if anything transient fails.
Delivered
The finished brief lands in-app with a freshness indicator and a Command Center hero card, by email with the brief inline, and as an attached PDF — and, where a supervisor chooses, only after their review and override.
Acted on
The operator reads the BLUF, skims the sections that are theirs, works the top-three "Your Day" actions, and follows any claim’s deep-link straight to the source events — then leaves a thumbs rating that tunes the next brief.
Under the hood
Specifications
| Cadence | Per recipient: daily (default), weekly, or disabled |
| Timing | Assembled at each recipient’s local shift start; time-zone-aware and DST-safe |
| Uniqueness | One brief per recipient per period; generation is idempotent — re-runs never duplicate |
| Sections | Watchlist hits · pattern-of-life deviations · prediction outcomes · counter-surveillance events · compliance (subject-access queue, retention expiry, suppression activity) · audit anomalies · telemetry & camera health |
| BLUF | Deterministic, template-generated headline from section counts plus the period’s most-notable items — grounded in the data, no open-ended generation |
| Your Day | Top-three prioritized actions, ranked across all sections with diversity by source type |
| Confidence | High / medium / low per brief, from section coverage, data freshness, and scope completeness |
| Quiet-shift state | Explicit "Quiet shift" brief when nothing notable occurs in the recipient’s window |
| Audit-anomaly detection | Deterministic rules — bulk deletion, off-hours activity, excessive face search, and statistical outliers against a 30-day per-operator baseline |
| Delivery channels | In-app (always on) · email (configurable, branded template) · PDF (attached and on-demand) |
| Server-side rendered; retrieved via short-lived signed link; stored in cloud object storage in cloud deployments, local disk on-premise | |
| Per-operator preferences | Shift start · cadence · per-section mutes · camera scope · watchlist scope · delivery channels |
| Org defaults | Default shift start and cadence · auto-enrolled roles · org-wide section mutes · retention period |
| Supervisor override | Edit BLUF and "Your Day" before send; two-factor gated; marked supervisor-authored; written to a tamper-evident audit chain |
| Feedback | One-tap thumbs rating per brief to tune relevance |
| Reliability | Retries on transient failure; clearly flags a brief it cannot complete — never fails silently |
| Accountability | Every claim deep-links to its source events; overrides and feedback are audited |
| Deployment | Cloud-managed, on-premise, or fully air-gapped — one codebase |
No video intelligence platform ships an auto-generated daily intelligence brief like this; the closest analogue lives in cyber operations, not in the control room. Specifications describe shipped platform capabilities; we’ll confirm the configuration that fits your deployment during your demo.
The rest of Sentinel
The brief points the operator at the rest of the platform.
Command Center
The operator’s console where the brief is waiting at sign-in: one map of every camera, a live threat picture, a streaming event feed, and AI recommendations for what needs attention now.
Learn moreMission Live Board
When an incident opens — including those flagged by overnight watchlist hits in the brief — the whole team coordinates on one shared live map and an evidence-ready case file assembles on close.
Learn moreAlerts & Threat Detection
The watchlist alerting, threat scoring, and counter-surveillance detection whose activity the brief summarizes every shift.
Learn moreSee a brief on live data.
Request demo access and we’ll send you a private, pre-loaded environment — open a generated brief, read its BLUF, expand the seven sections, work the top-three ‘Your Day’ actions, and follow a claim straight back to the events that produced it.