CCTV monitoring for 24-hour gyms and coworking spaces

Membership revenue leaks through the door. Every person who slips in behind a paying member is using the space for free, and at 2am there's no front desk to notice. The camera above the door records every one of them; the recording just joins the other hours nobody will ever review. Meanwhile the building itself (the kit, other members' belongings) sits open to whoever got in.

What Svid watches for in an unstaffed building

These run as checks, optional watchers over the cameras you already have, each priced from your own usage in the Store. The set that fits a building with nobody on the desk:

• Tailgating Watch flags a second person slipping through a controlled door or turnstile close behind someone else without badging in themselves. It judges a short window of frames rather than one snapshot, so the door opening, the member entering and the follower squeezing through read as one sequence, and the alert describes the people involved.
• Occupancy Compliance counts the people in a space and alerts when the number passes the limit you set, which covers the fire-code question without anyone doing a headcount.
• Anomaly Detector is the catch-all: anything unusual for a routine scene of that kind gets flagged. In a building that should be quiet at 3am, unusual covers a lot.
• Daily Summary is a report check: it reads the day (or the night) across the cameras it covers and sends one plain-English email, so the first person in knows what happened before they've taken their coat off.

Pricing suits the 24/7 model better than you'd expect, because every watch level is motion-gated: frames where nothing moved get no AI calls, so the empty hours cost very little and the busy ones carry the price. The monthly figure is based on your own usage for your cameras and hours, floored at $9, with the whole derivation on screen at signup across all three watch levels. Tailgating is quick, so the door camera is worth the Precise level (a frame every second at 1080p); the studio that sits empty overnight can run on Economy. Report checks like Daily Summary start at a $3 monthly floor.

The 2am question, answered

When something does happen overnight (a machine damaged, a bag gone missing, a door propped), the footage is searchable in plain English. Type “person in a grey hoodie at the entrance around 2am” and the moment is on screen in seconds, instead of an evening of scrubbing. Alerts don't wait for morning either: they land on screen, by email, or as a JSON webhook into whatever the team already runs. One event fires one alert, and a check re-firing within two minutes is logged as the same event continuing, so a busy doorway doesn't turn into a siren.

Chains fit the same shape. Each site gets a folder in the Library, the search bar reads whichever folder you're in (subfolders included), and a check runs across a whole folder in one action, so Tailgating Watch can cover every door in the estate without per-camera setup.

Getting started

Create an account at app.svid.ai and answer four questions about the site: business type, what to watch for, camera count, hours a day. Onboarding suggests a check bundle and a watch level (both editable) and shows the price with its arithmetic before Stripe takes a card. Point Svid at the entrance camera's RTSP feed first and read a week of tailgating alerts against your badge logs; the gap between the two numbers is the question answered.

How can it spot tailgating without knowing who's a member?

It doesn't identify anyone, deliberately. The check reads the sequence at the door: one person badges through, a second slips in close behind without presenting anything. That's visible behaviour, not identity, and the alert includes a description of the people involved so staff know what they're looking at.

Who gets the alert at 3am if nobody's on site?

Whoever you choose. Alerts land in the app's Alerts tab, by email, or as a JSON webhook into whatever the team already runs. One event fires one alert, and a re-fire within two minutes is recorded as the same event continuing.

Does it connect to our door access system?

Not natively; Svid reads cameras, not badge logs. Alerts arrive as JSON webhooks, so anything you already run can consume them and line them up against your own access records.

What does 24/7 monitoring cost?

Less than 24/7 suggests. Every watch level is motion-gated, so the hours when the building is genuinely empty cost very little. The price is based on your own usage, floored at $9 a month, and it's shown with its full derivation at signup before you pay.

We run several sites. Does that work?

Yes. Each site gets a folder in the Library, checks run across whole folders in one action, and every site's alerts land in one filterable tab. Search reads the folder you're in, subfolders included, so one query can cover the estate.