§ CASE STUDIES
No paid pilots yet. Here is what a real one will look like.
We are early — by design. Witness has had pilot conversations with UK BTR operators, boutique-hotel security leads and mid-market venue directors, but we have not yet signed a paid pilot and we will not publish a real case study until one lands. Until then, what follows are templates — explicit, named, vertical-shaped outlines of what a real engagement will cover, what we'll measure, and what we'll publish when the customer is real.
We mark every template page with a banner. We do not pretend the customer is real. When a real pilot completes, the template is replaced — at the same URL — with the named-customer case study, and a CHANGELOG note records the swap.
§ THE THREE TEMPLATES
Three verticals. Three shapes of a real engagement.
One per first-tier vertical — build-to-rent, boutique hotels, mid-market venues. Each template is sized to what a real pilot will actually cover: camera count, site count, the specific pattern the duty team needs us to surface.
- 01
BTR · 3 blocks · ~480 residences
Bedfordshire — 3-block portfolio, ~480 residences
An L&Q-shaped BTR portfolio in Bedford — three blocks, ~480 residences, a single overnight duty officer. The template engagement covers ASB pattern detection across the three lobbies, an ICO ZB-class DPIA stamped by the operator's DPO, and embedding-only ReID across 38 cameras.
- 02
Hotels · ~200 rooms · MICE space
Manchester — boutique hotel chain, ~200 rooms
A boutique-hotel-shaped customer with a 200-room property in Manchester city centre, MICE / conference space on the lower three floors, and a late-night bar that closes at 02:00. The template engagement covers late-night access pattern flagging at the staff door + lift bank, plus event-space lanyard validation.
- 03
Venues · 400-cap · anti-tout
Bristol — independent 400-cap music venue
An independent music venue in Bristol's Stokes Croft, 400-cap, with a door team of two and a security director who also runs box office. The template engagement covers ticket-tout pattern flagging at the gates, multi-camera reach across the foyer + smoking area + side exit, and a posture that survives a Music Venue Trust DPIA review.
§ HONEST FRAMING
Why we publish templates at all.
The fastest way to lose a UK security director's trust is to invent a customer. The second-fastest is to refuse to talk about what an engagement looks like until you have one. We are picking the third option: publish the template, mark it as a template on every surface, and let buyers see exactly what we plan to do before we have done it.
That posture has a name on the India healthtech sibling ("pending-pilot template — explicit framing") and the Orenva-Compliance sibling does the same on its DPIA case studies. We bring it across to Witness because the buyer cohort overlaps — DPOs and Estates Directors who want to see the shape of the work before the work has happened.