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Company

Company overview

Cloudastructure, Inc. helps owners and managers secure apartment communities and commercial properties. Its cloud platform combines AI video monitoring with trained human guards who monitor sites remotely, giving customers surveillance and live remote guarding through one system.

Customers generally pay subscriptions priced per camera, usually billed annually in advance. The company also supplies cameras and cloud video recorders, with installation arranged through partners when needed. Installation and other services form its largest revenue line; subscriptions and hardware sales also contribute substantially.

A small group of customers supplies a significant share of revenue, with Hasta Capital and RV Mobile Power the largest. Because the platform handles personal information, including biometric data, privacy and security laws constrain how it collects and uses that information. Those requirements can require changes to its practices or restrict deployment, particularly for AI and face recognition.

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Source: SEC filing

Red flags

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Moat

CSAI says it has a moat. Does it hold up?

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  • Customer

Cloudastructure’s results hinge chiefly on property managers adopting and expanding its AI surveillance and remote guarding, with Verkada and Avigilon among the competitors to watch beyond this list.

  • Cloudastructure relies on NVIDIA’s computing chips to process customers’ surveillance video in the cloud, making NVIDIA’s technology an input to the AI security and remote-guarding services it sells to property managers. NVIDIA’s data-center computing platforms are the relevant business to watch: Cloudastructure uses its GPU clusters for processing that it says would be impractical and too costly for customers to run on site.

Agenda

in 23 daysThu, Nov 12

  1. Time to be announced
    Major

    Cloudastructure, Inc. earningsThis company

    Cloudastructure’s report will show whether new camera deployments are turning into recurring subscription and remote-guarding revenue, rather than mostly one-time installation and hardware sales.

in 29 daysWed, Nov 18

  1. Time to be announced

    Nvidia Corp earningsNVDA

    NVIDIA’s data-center report will show how demand and supply for cloud AI computing are developing; Cloudastructure relies on those GPU clusters to process surveillance video and deliver remote guarding.