The problem
Manuals and training videos miss what experts actually do: the small adjustments, the order of steps, the judgement calls made in real conditions.
Human expertise. Preserved for the future.
Capture the work that matters. Preserve your team’s knowledge.
Why Vigil
What matters
Real demonstrations of real work, captured where it happens: on busy sites, in changing conditions, from the person doing the job.
Vigil
A head-worn recorder and a private processing system that turn each demonstration into searchable knowledge your team keeps, and training data robots can learn from.
Language models learned from libraries of written text. The skill in a pair of hands was never written down.
Vigil captures what manuals miss.
Meet Vigil.
Purpose-built for the physical world.
Capture what matters.
Turn experience into knowledge.
Your knowledge. Under your control.
Built for the future of physical intelligence.
Human expertise. Preserved for the future.
How it works
From a day's work to lasting knowledge.
- 1
Clip it on
Vigil clips to the brim of a hard hat or cap. No screens, no menus, nothing to hold.
- 2
Work as usual
Start and stop with your voice or the single button. The camera, depth and motion sensors record the task from your point of view.
- 3
It uploads itself
Recordings wait safely on the device and upload over Wi-Fi or LTE as soon as a connection is available.
- 4
Find any moment
Each demonstration becomes searchable task episodes with timestamps, ready to review, reuse and export.
Two ways to take part
Put expertise on the record.
Capture it for your own team, or contribute your skills and get paid for them.
For organisations
Preserve your team’s expertise.
- Capture demonstrations on your own sites
- Process recordings on your own infrastructure, with the AI models you approve
- Search, review and export reusable task knowledge
- Turn your best demonstrations into training data for your robots
For individuals
Record your skills. Get paid.
- Receive clear recording tasks
- Record hands-free with Vigil on your cap
- Get paid for accepted demonstrations
Physical AI
Teach robots how the work is really done.
Robots can’t learn what they have never seen. Vigil records skilled people doing real tasks, from their own point of view, so the same recordings that train your team can train the machines that will work beside them.
First-person demonstrations
Video from the wearer’s point of view, with depth and head motion captured alongside: how the task looks to the person doing it.
Organised into tasks
Recordings become episodes and steps with timestamps, so a robot-learning team gets clean examples, not hours of raw footage.
Real conditions, at scale
Real sites, real tools, real variation. The messy detail that lab demonstrations miss and robots most need.
Ready for robot learning
Export curated episodes as datasets for training robot policies and physical-AI models, on your terms.
Private by design
Your knowledge. Under your control.
Vigil can run entirely inside your environment. Recordings, transcripts, annotations and search indexes stay on infrastructure you own.
Bring your own models
Connect the AI services your company already approves. Nothing is sent to ours.
No silent fallback
If a model is unavailable, recordings simply wait. Nothing is routed elsewhere.
Every result is reviewable
Annotations keep their evidence, versions and reviewer decisions.
Export when you choose
Datasets leave your environment only when you export them.
Under the hood
Built for the physical world.
A compact module that clips to the brim of a hard hat or cap, carrying the sensors that matter for capturing skilled work.
- Camera
- Sees the task from the wearer’s point of view.
- Depth sensing
- A multizone time-of-flight sensor measures distance to hands, tools and surfaces.
- Motion sensing
- A six-axis motion sensor records head movement alongside the video.
- Voice and button
- Start, stop and mark moments without touching a screen.
- Light and sound
- A status light and a tone confirm when Vigil is recording.
- Built-in flash
- A forward light for dim spaces and tight corners.
- Always connected
- Uploads over Wi-Fi, with optional LTE for the field.
- Fits the job
- Clips to a hard hat or cap and stays out of the way.
The film
Twenty seconds on why expertise deserves a record.
Music: J. S. Bach, Prelude in C major, BWV 846. Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka (public domain).
Every task, seen through the eyes of the person who knows it best.
Bring Vigil to your team and start building a library of how the work is really done.