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OnDeck AI

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

OnDeck is the infrastructure layer that makes Vision Language Models accessible and scalable for enterprise. Our model, Perception-0, let organizations instantly find any object, behavior or event, in any footage, without needing to train a model or collect any training data.

The Pain: Creating vision models usually takes months: collecting training data, training, then deployment. Worse yet:

+ it’s often impossible to get enough data for a specific task, and

+ even the best cv models struggle to generalize across diverse camera setups, workflows and environments.

To overcome these blockers, we bet early on the power of VLMs and built a vision engine that can generalize across any task and doesn’t need any training data. We published a NeurIPS workshop paper showing our new methods with VLMs beat traditional CV even at niche tasks. Now, our model Perception-0 beats the best VLMs including Gemini at long video understanding.

Our current customers include:

- National Defense Organizations

- Robotics Research

- Security cameras

- Behaviour analysis for port monitoring

- Off-shore oil & gas monitoring

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Founders & team

Alexander Dungate

Founder/CEO

Solving vision @ OnDeck. BSc in CS + biology, National Geographic Explorer.

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Sepand Dyanatkar

Founder/CTO

Solving vision. Masters @ Cambridge in multi-agent RL. Research in swarm robotics for space, and built software at Amazon and the European Space Agency.

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