Viam, an engineering platform for data, AI, and automation, announced a partnership with CompScience, a leading workers' compensation provider using computer vision to enhance workplace safety. This collaboration integrates Viam’s hardware-agnostic platform with CompScience’s AI technology to deliver scalable safety solutions for warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and retail environments, enabling real-time hazard detection and cost savings.
Viam and CompScience announced partnership on May 8, 2025.
Combines Viam’s platform with CompScience’s AI for workplace safety.
Targets warehouses, manufacturing, and retail with real-time risk detection.
Simplifies integration with existing camera systems for faster deployment.
Serves 200+ brokers, with clients like Honda, Toyota, and DHL.
Reduces workplace incidents, insurance claims, and operational disruptions.
The partnership, detailed in a May 8, 2025, press release, leverages CompScience’s AI-driven analytics, which processes workplace video footage to identify unreported risks such as equipment misuse, slip hazards, and unsafe behaviors. Viam’s platform enables seamless connection to existing camera systems, eliminating complex manual configurations. This integration accelerates deployment and enhances automatic hazard detection, providing a turnkey solution for over 200 insurance brokers serving diverse industries.
“Integrating Viam’s platform has enabled us to offer our brokers a turnkey, high-impact solution,” said Josh Butler, CompScience Founder and CEO. The solution empowers brokers to help clients reduce workplace incidents, lower insurance premiums, and minimize revenue losses from operational disruptions.
Viam, founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, specializes in bridging hardware and software to integrate AI, data, and automation. “At Viam, we’re focused on removing the barriers companies face when it comes to integrating hardware and software,” said Horowitz. By enabling CompScience’s technology to work with existing infrastructure, Viam ensures rapid, cost-effective deployment, making AI-driven safety accessible to businesses of all sizes.
CompScience’s continuous, real-time monitoring and risk analytics benefit workplaces like warehouses, manufacturing plants, and retail stores. The system drives immediate interventions to prevent accidents, ensuring employee safety and reducing costly workers’ compensation claims. Notable CompScience customers, including Honda, Toyota, and DHL, highlight the solution’s enterprise-grade reliability. The partnership’s scalability positions it to expand into additional areas, further enhancing workplace safety protocols.
This collaboration aligns with 2025 trends in AI-driven workplace safety, as seen in solutions like Protex AI and Surveily, which also use computer vision for real-time hazard detection. Unlike competitors, Viam’s hardware-agnostic approach offers unique flexibility, avoiding the need for proprietary hardware upgrades. The partnership reflects growing enterprise demand for proactive safety measures, with AI adoption in workplace safety projected to reduce incidents by up to 60% in industrial settings, according to industry reports.
By combining Viam’s integration expertise with CompScience’s AI analytics, this partnership sets a new standard for scalable, proactive workplace safety, delivering measurable value to brokers, businesses, and employees across multiple sectors.
Viam helps companies unlock the power of AI, data and automation in the physical world. We provide a single platform for engineers of all disciplines to solve problems together and build solutions that are fast and future-proof. Viam powers solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, industrial manufacturing, and more. Founded in 2020 by former MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz, Viam is headquartered in New York City.
CompScience Workers' Comp Insurance reduces costs for businesses by limiting the probability of injuries. The Intelligent Safety Platform is based on bundled AI-powered safety analytics that provides risk assessment and recommendations to make workplaces safer and more productive.
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