AI agents already reason, plan and use tools. They still can't see the physical world. Meanwhile millions of small businesses have cameras on the wall that nobody watches. Rikuy is the layer that gives any agent eyes, on any camera, with the owner's permission and a record of every look.
get_frame(cam_03, "now")
Pump 4 is free. The last car paid inside at 3:18 AM.
of recorded video is never reviewed unless there is an incident, say integrators surveyed by Luminys in 2026. The cameras are there, the hours are lost.
always on and connectable by MCP since August and September 2026: Muse from Meta, Dots from OpenAI, Grok Bot from xAI, and Claude. They can act for an owner. They can't look.
Rikuy connects the recorder the owner already has to the agent the owner already uses. No new cameras, no video in our cloud, one price.
We don't detect, count or recognize anyone. That keeps our costs low, our legal surface small, and puts us on the side of the agent platforms instead of competing with them.
A small box at the store that talks to the Hikvision, Dahua or Reolink recorder and dials out to Rikuy. No ports to open. Drops audio at the source. US$270 to 300 in hardware per store.
The tools an agent uses to look: list_cameras, get_frame, get_frames, get_clip, plus a sign-up flow the agent can start and the owner approves. Rules are enforced on our server, never in the agent.
Cameras, schedules, notices and the record of every look, with one switch to cut all access. Mobile first, in English and Spanish.
Ten small-business verticals without food service, which stays with Emilia Vision. Counts mix the US Census, which only counts locations with employees, and state licenses.
Theoretical ceiling: every person at every location on the $7 plan. Free for the first location, then priced per person like Tailscale, with agents never counted.
MCP became the standard way agents use tools, and the always-on agents of 2026 all speak it.
Multimodal models now read images and video well enough to answer an owner's question.
Verkada (September 2026) and Rhombus connect cameras to agents, but only their own. Demand is validated; multi-brand is open.
The FCC stopped new Hikvision and Dahua imports in June 2026. The installed base stays and ages without a modern cloud.
Even consumer brands open up: Ring has had a partner API since April 2025.
Rikuy is the only one that says all three in its headline: the owner's own agent, a public price, and self-serve.
Platform policy. Agent directories may read cameras as surveillance. We ask Anthropic and OpenAI before submitting, position as operations and fraud, and keep a custom connector as plan B.
Recorder variety. Firmware and codecs differ by model. A lab with used Hikvision and Dahua units comes before any code.
Funded competitors. Solink, Spot AI and Verkada have capital. None of them is multi-brand with the owner's own agent.
Willingness to pay. Unproven in these verticals. Founding memberships and deposits test it before we build.
Two founders part time. Estimates get revised after the recorder lab.
2 to 3 weeks
Five owner interviews, a hand-run test with two stores, founding memberships.
3 to 4 weeks
Recorder lab, channel discovery, frames and clips, outbound tunnel.
2 to 3 weeks
Server-side rules, the record of every look, tested in Claude and ChatGPT.
3 to 4 weeks
Cameras, schedules, notices, Stripe membership, legal review.
4 weeks
Five stores at founding price, assisted install, then the public MCP registry.
Co-founder · Software architect
Based in Colombia. Leads product and engineering.
Co-founder · Founder of Emilia Vision
Emilia Vision builds AI for restaurants, the vertical Rikuy leaves to it.