The Viso Story

We build AI that understands the physical world, so any business can use it.

Viso.ai is the company behind Visual General Intelligence, a new kind of computer vision that doesn't need to be trained. Describe what you want a camera to understand, and a working AI agent builds itself around the problem in minutes.

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Our Mission

Self-building Computer Vision for the physical world

For fifteen years, computer vision meant collecting data, labelling it, training a custom model, and deploying it. All to build a system that could only detect what it had been explicitly trained on. Expensive, brittle, and slow. The result: only the largest organisations with in-house ML teams could afford to use it.

We're changing that. Our platform lets anyone build production-grade vision applications from a single prompt. No training data, no annotation work, no big ML team. We close the gap between the tech and the business side.

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By the numbers

Viso delivers value from AI vision fast, in any industry

129bn

images analyzed

every month

420k

incidents detected

every month

24+

countries deployed

across the world

$9.2M

raised

VC backed by Accel

Inside Viso

viso.ai is the company behind visual general intelligence

Gaudenz and Nico began building computer vision systems in 2014, long before visual AI became part of the enterprise mainstream. After delivering hundreds of real-world deployments, they saw the same problem again and again: the model was not the only bottleneck. The real limitation was having to rebuild computer vision from scratch for every camera, environment, and use case. viso.ai was created to change that.

In early 2025 we published the foundational white paper that named Visual General Intelligence. VGI is the leap from object detection to full scene understanding and reasoning, from "there is an object at coordinates X, Y" to identifying and listing potential safety hazards, threats or defects without prior training. Our VGI-1 perception engine powers every product we ship.

Our co-founders, Nico Klingler and Gaudenz Boesch, on the culture and values for building an exceptional team

Global company, Swiss at heart

Viso.ai is headquartered in Switzerland with offices and teams in London, Shanghai, New York.

Category leadership

viso.ai published the foundational work on Visual General Intelligence and builds cutting-edge platform systems for visual AI.

Backed by the best

We are proudly backed by global top-tier VC investors Accel and we are fortunate to partner the world’s best technology companies

NEW ERA OF AI VISION

"The model-training era is over. What took weeks now takes minutes, and that is not an improvement, that is an extinction event. Viso Now is the first platform built for what comes next: visual intelligence that understands any scene, in any domain, from a single prompt. Now any business can own it."

NK

Nico Klingler

Co-Founder viso.ai

Community

Community of AI Builders

Build the future with hundreds of innovators, creators, and operators. Whether you're brand new or a professional AI expert, there's a place for you here. Join our AI Hackathons and Computer Vision Challenges.

The Viso Team

Meet the people building this.

We’re building Visual General Intelligence for the real world, and a team that believes deeply in that mission. At viso.ai, curious and ambitious people come together to solve hard problems, create products that matter, and support each other in doing the best work of their lives.

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Working with the brightest minds to solve the biggest problems in applied computer vision.

Working with the brightest minds to solve the biggest problems in applied computer vision.

Gerrard leads the development team and drives technical decisions across the entire architecture and infrastructure landscape.

Chrissie leads our marketing team while driving go-to-market strategy, building our brand and driving growth through our programs and comms.

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Davon looks after G&A expenses, making sure the roof stays on while the team builds the rocket.

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Sasha is passionate about simplifying complex tech, building strong relationships, and helping customers find real value.

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Paolo oversees the product platform

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Prabin builds different features inside viso.ai for Viso clients

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LeePing develops and deploys end-to-end computer vision solutions by training models and building applications tailored to customer needs.

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Pavel is the maintainer of the VisoOS Edge Operating System, ensuring its stability, performance, and ongoing development.

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Carlos implements and optimizes AI model training and inference processes, automates machine learning pipelines, monitors performance, and enhances vision-based AI workflows.

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Talia helps spread the word about the power of computer vision by leading marketing initiatives, shaping campaign strategy, and driving brand growth.

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Katie is one of our first dedicated Sales Development Representatives, working closely with sales and marketing to generate and qualify leads.

Vito designs and builds user-friendly, engaging user interfaces that enhance the overall user experience.

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Beth works with organizations to identify where computer vision can drive safer and more efficient operations.

Du designs, develops, and optimizes containerized environments to power high-performance AI solutions.

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Daniela leads People and Talent strategies, designing and implementing initiatives across the employee lifecycle to attract, develop, and retain top talent.

Hammas collaborates with the CTO to architect complex systems, manage microservices, enhance existing services, and develop new features

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TieSong develops and maintains microservices while integrating the portal with the Viso Operating System, Building Blocks, and other core components.

Yehjin is one of our first dedicated Sales Development Representatives, working closely with sales and marketing to generate and qualify leads.

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Wang designs, develops, and optimizes Node-RED modules for computer vision applications, enabling seamless AI integration and delivering high-performance solutions.