The trigger moments that start this conversation, what actually changes on day one, and a four-phase plan that keeps every site recording throughout. Written for teams already running AI on cameras they own who want the platform to do more than tell them.
Both platforms read the cameras you already own, so nothing physical changes. What changes is what the platform does with the frame once it has understood it.
Four moments when teams running an AI-native video platform start this conversation. If none of them are true, staying put is a reasonable answer.
Coram publishes license terms of 1, 3, 5 or 10 years, so the renewal date is a real decision point rather than a rolling default. It also publishes what happens at the end: you keep the cameras it supplied and you keep the Coram Point if you bought it upfront. That is an unusually clean exit for this category and it makes the renewal the cheapest moment to compare two quotes on the identical site list.
Coram documents detection, plain-English alerting, AI search, Deep Investigation and connecting directly to first responders. Speaker, talk-down, strobe or horn behavior is not publicly specified. If the question your team keeps asking is what happens on site at 03:00 before anyone answers a phone, put that question to both vendors and ask each to describe the sequence rather than the feature.
There is real overlap here: Coram names PPE violations, falls, tailgating, dock delays and productivity alerts, so operations is not absent from the platform. The trigger is narrower than that. It is the moment your list of questions grows past what ships and you need a way to add one yourself, this quarter, without a vendor project behind it.
Coram states that price depends on the number of locations, the type of camera and days of storage. Where full-resolution video sits and for how long is not otherwise publicly specified. If an insurer, a regulator or a legal hold has just moved your retention obligation, get the storage architecture in writing from every vendor on the list, including this one, before anybody quotes.
The structural differences that decide whether a switch is worth starting.
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Coram AI details come from Coram's own site, product page and pricing page, read on August 14, 2026. Where Coram publishes nothing, this table says so rather than guessing.
A rollout that keeps coverage live throughout. Most sites go live inside six weeks.
Inventory the fleet per site: manufacturer, model, resolution, codec and network path, plus which cameras Coram supplied and which were already yours. Because both platforms read the cameras you own, this phase is a coverage map rather than a replacement list. Two things to pin down in writing while you are here: the license end date per site, and where each site's full-resolution video is currently written and for how long, since Coram publishes days of storage as a price input rather than a retention policy.
Run one site live on both platforms at once. That overlap is the point: it is the only way to compare search quality, detection quality and what happens after a detection on identical footage, and it costs one site rather than an estate. Pick the site with the worst overnight problem rather than the easiest one, because the difference between routing an event to a person and acting on site is invisible on a quiet estate and obvious on a noisy one.
Move site by site rather than estate-wide, keeping Coram recording at each site until its replacement has run a full week. The cameras do not move and the cabling does not change, so a site cutover is a configuration change plus an IVR. Time the waves to the license dates you collected in assess, and decide per site whether the Coram Point stays racked as a fallback during the overlap or comes out on the day.
Once coverage is stable, the work moves from parity to what the old platform could not do: adding safety and operations agents on the same cameras, building an Iris detection for something specific to your process, and setting what fires on site when nobody is watching. This is the phase that decides whether the switch was a procurement exercise or a capability change.
The six that come up in every one of these conversations.
Terms run 1, 3, 5 or 10 years, so pull the end date per site before anything else. Assess and pilot cost little and the comparison is more honest with both systems live, so run the pilot on one site during the overlap and time the cutover waves to those dates rather than paying twice across the estate.
No, and the plan is built to make that structural rather than a promise. Coram keeps recording at each site until its replacement has run a full week, the cameras never move, and cutover happens site by site. If a site fails its sign-off test, that site stays where it is while the others proceed.
Coram publishes the answer to this one, which is worth knowing before you worry about it: you own the Point outright, there is no leasing to unwind, and Coram states you keep it if you choose not to renew. It can stay racked through the overlap as a fallback. Nothing about this decision strands hardware you have already bought.
It does not migrate. Coram publishes days of storage as a pricing input rather than a retention policy, so establish the actual retention per site in the assess phase and export anything under legal or insurance hold before the license lapses. That window closes with the subscription, not with the cutover.
Camera reuse is common ground, so it is not the reason to move and nobody should sell it as one. What changes is what happens at the moment of a detection, whether the platform reaches past security into safety and operations on the same fleet, and whether your own team can add a detection without waiting for someone else's roadmap.
Anyone answering this without your site list is guessing. Both publish the shape of the bill: a per-camera license with a multi-year term on one side, a per-camera subscription covering the software and the recorder on the other. Quote both against the identical site list and the identical retention obligation over three years, with hardware and installation itemized.
Bring a camera list and we will tell you what works as it is.
Customer-reported outcomes from named Spot AI customers.
Staccato went from first conversation to full deployment across an 800-acre campus in seven weeks, on the camera infrastructure it already had.
Bridge33 Capital standardized video across 25 plus properties, each acquisition arriving with a different camera system, and cut footage search from hours to minutes.
The YMCA of Greater Richmond deployed 17 locations in two weeks and standardized retention across the estate.
"Within four minutes of the alarm going off, Spot AI gave us video footage of the incident on the responding officers' phones. We had five recoveries within the hour."
No. Coram works with any IP camera and Spot AI works with any camera that speaks ONVIF or RTSP, so the fleet carries across as it is. Analog cameras connect through the Intelligent Video Recorder rather than being replaced. Nothing on the wall moves and no coax is pulled.
Most estates are live inside six weeks: a week to assess, a fortnight of pilot on one site, then site-by-site cutover. Sites go live individually rather than in a big-bang switch, so the timeline scales with how many sites you have rather than how many cameras.
Coram publishes this on its pricing page: the Coram Point is purchased upfront and you keep it, and customers who took cameras from Coram keep those too if they choose not to renew. Neither is a reason to stay and neither has to be returned.
Yes, and the plan depends on it. The pilot runs one site on both at once so search, detection and response can be compared on identical footage. Coram keeps recording at every site until that site's replacement has passed a full week of sign-off.
Both are AI-native and both run on the cameras you already own, so the difference is not compatibility. It is what happens next. Coram documents detection, plain-English alerting, Deep Investigation and escalation to first responders. Spot AI adds agents that act at the moment of an incident through standard speakers, and Iris for a detection your own team defines.