PathPulse.ai: Every vehicle becomes a road sensor.

Traction

• 80,000+ registered drivers
• 5M+ kilometres covered
• 400K+ violations detected
• $60M+ value of violations captured (the value of the fines, not PathPulse revenue)
• Four successful pilots, in South Africa, Nigeria, Malaysia and India. In a typical pilot, a few dozen drivers capture hundreds of thousands of dollars in violations.
• Live in 25+ countries, with drivers actively collecting data in each, and a pipeline across five continents

The problem

Fixed cameras cover about 6% of the streets even in New York City, one of the most camera dense cities (2,400+ speed cameras, red light cameras at 600 intersections, on about 10,100 km of streets), and well under 1% of roads nationally in our markets. They detect 4 to 5 violation types.

Scout detects 60+ violation types wherever drivers go, with coverage projected at 60 to 70% of city roads at mature driver density. 20% of a country's gig drivers can cover 15 to 20% of its roads: the city streets and main roads where traffic flows.

How it works

1. Capture: mount any phone and drive. Scout works in the background while the driver uses maps, music, voice notes or a voice assistant.
2. Detect: PulseNet, our on device model, spots the violation.
3. Validate: the Veritas Engine checks every case in four layers: image quality, scene context, violation models and PulseGen review.
4. Act: a government official approves the case in the enforcement console and the fine goes out.

Safety, not surveillance

• Flags driving, not people. No facial recognition and no tracking of individuals. Models look for violations and road hazards only.
• Raw video is deleted. Only short clips of unsafe driving are kept, as evidence.
• Bystanders are blurred before evidence reaches an officer.
• No automated fines. An officer reviews every case before anything is issued.
• Evidence is signed on the phone and encrypted end to end; proof bundles verify offline.
• Aligned to the data protection law of every market we work in, such as GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, DPDP, POPIA, NDPA, LGPD and PDPA.

For governments

• Zero upfront cost. No cameras to buy, no poles to install. PathPulse is paid from a share of fines collected.
• Revenue share. The government keeps the largest share; drivers earn for every approved case.
• Officials decide. Nothing is issued without a government official's approval. Every decision stays with the authority.
• Plugs into what you run: the fine portal, road infrastructure systems, ANPR and traffic command centres.
• The enforcement console gives officers an overview of cases received, a review queue of AI detected violations, one click validation and filing for court, and the record behind every scout.

Questions cities ask

What does PathPulse cost the city?

Nothing. It costs $0 to start and $0 to run. There are no cameras to buy, no poles to install and no running costs. PathPulse is paid from a share of the fines collected, so for the city there is only upside: safer roads and new revenue.

What have the pilots shown?

Four pilots so far, and Scout is live in 25+ countries, with drivers collecting data in each. In a typical pilot, a few dozen drivers on the roads the city chooses capture hundreds of thousands of dollars in violations, at no cost to the city, with every fine validated by an official.

Who decides whether a fine is issued?

Government officials. Nothing is automated. Every case reaches an official in the enforcement console, who validates it, changes the violation type or dismisses it. Only validated cases become fines.

Will the evidence stand up in court?

That is what it is built for. Our AI is highly accurate, and a government official validates every case before a fine goes out, so we expect more than 95% of fines to hold up. Each case carries the clip, time, location and speed, checked by the Veritas Engine in four layers and signed on the phone.

How is citizens' privacy protected?

There is no facial recognition, and all data is collected anonymised. Scout flags driving, not people: raw video is deleted, only short clips of unsafe driving are kept as evidence, and bystanders are blurred. Evidence is signed on the phone and protected at kernel level, so it cannot be altered. We build to the data protection law of every market we work in, such as GDPR, CCPA, DPDP, POPIA, NDPA, LGPD and PDPA, and to the local law of each new market.

Which violations can it detect?

More than 60 types, including riding without a helmet, jumping a red light, no seatbelt, triple riding, illegal parking, wrong side driving, phone use while driving and lane violations. Fixed cameras typically detect 4 to 5.

Does it replace our cameras?

Partly. Scout can take over part of the work of a fixed camera network, and it covers the roads fixed cameras never reach, wherever drivers go.

Does it work with our systems?

Yes. It connects to your road infrastructure systems and your fine portal, so validated cases flow straight into the process you already run.

How do we start?

Just get in touch. Book a demo or email partnerships@pathpulse.ai, and we will set it up with your team.

Veritas Engine

Every detection passes four checks before an officer sees it: image quality, scene context, violation models and PulseGen review. Captures are signed on the phone and tamper evident. Raw footage stays on the phone.

For industry

Anonymised road intelligence licensed to car insurance companies (segment risk scores), AI labs (labelled road video from 25+ countries), autonomous vehicle companies (real world edge cases), geospatial analytics companies (fresh road condition layers) and navigation apps (live hazard feeds). Bystanders are blurred, there is no facial recognition and no individual is tracked.

Products

• Scout: the driver app, on Google Play and the App Store.
• PulseNet: on device detection, under 1 billion parameters, runs on phones from $80.
• Veritas Engine: four layer validation of every case.
• PulseGen: our vision language model, in development, that explains what is happening on the road and what to do.
• P-AXON: compact AI hardware, coming soon.

Partners and clients

Abatis, Zitanium Technologies, Cautio, Lucky Horze AI, Shelby, Aptos and Stellar.

Team

Umair Mukadam, Cofounder and CEO. Ibrahim Momin, Cofounder and CTO. Ritika Khar, Chief PR Officer. Naved Khan, VP. Eddison Shumba, Managing Director, South Africa. Baatile Ashley Sasebula, BD and Comms Associate, South Africa.