The company began with emergency-care instruction. Nearly five decades and a long acquisition campaign later, it sells a connected operating system for the unglamorous, consequential work of keeping people safe.
The Chicago software company spent three decades assembling the unglamorous machinery of workplace safety. Its next wager is that better reporting - plus tightly supervised AI - can spot danger before a near miss becomes a headline.
Vivity AI is an industrial AI company building software that connects the physical factory floor to real-time machine intelligence. Its containerized Vivity Edge platform plugs into standard PLCs, IIoT sensors and CCTV systems to run computer-vision and anomaly-detection models on-site - powering Safety AI for accident prevention and Analytics for equipment failure detection. Founded in 2022 with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seoul, the company targets heavy industries like petrochemicals, energy, shipbuilding and heavy manufacturing, and is backed by South Korean strategic investor Hanwha Systems and Plug and Play.