Buyer-Stage Comparison Tables for Safety AI

Who this is for

For teams that need to compare vendors differently at each buying stage.

The buyer question

What should a safety AI buyer compare at each stage of evaluation?

Research stage

Compare architecture, camera support, deployment model, privacy posture, and whether the vendor can explain limitations plainly. A vendor who cannot yet name what their system gets wrong is not ready for a technical conversation.

Technical validation stage

Compare stream access, VMS routing, edge hardware, latency measurement, event payloads, and failure behavior, specifically what happens to alerting when the network degrades or the edge node restarts.

Pilot stage

Compare KPI design, review cadence, nuisance alert process, response ownership, and expansion criteria. A pilot with no named response owner for each alert type is not measuring anything, it is just generating logs.

How to use this with DHI

Use this page as a pre-pilot checklist. Pick one zone, one event type, one alert owner, and one review cadence. If the current cameras cannot support the workflow, fix the camera plan before expanding the deployment.