Why America’s Heroes Deserve the Most Advanced AI

At our peak, the public GeoSpy platform had 2 million free users and averaged about 120,000 searches per day. Many of my friends insisted that I should monetize the free traffic and capitalize on the AI hype. In Q1 of 2025, we decided to completely sunset the public platform to focus on law enforcement and government applications. Some people asked why we made this decision and potentially forfeited millions of dollars in easy revenue. To answer that question, we have to go back to the beginning.

When we first launched GeoSpy, we started as three brothers working out of a one-bedroom apartment in Boston. My two older brothers and I had been working on a project called Darkpages, which was meant to revolutionize cybersecurity. By chance, I read a paper discussing photo geolocation and, over a few days, cobbled together a version of my own. This was not a core feature of our Darkpages platform but a feature nonetheless. I showed the software to a few friends, and they didn't seem particularly impressed. One of my brothers suggested I share it on Reddit, so I did. That's how GeoSpy began.

Over the next three months, we saw explosive growth, reaching 1 million users within that time. We received our first acquisition offer within two weeks of launching, which we turned down. The success of our launch came with challenges. While bootstrapping, I remember my first big cloud bill was four times my rent, covered only by an enterprise API deal we had closed the week before.

As time went on, the question on everyone's mind was: Why are people using GeoSpy? I started obsessively reaching out to users to better understand their reasoning. What I heard shocked me. People's stories ranged from cheating at GeoGuessr to more serious use cases like asset recovery and fugitive apprehension.

One particular story struck me to the core. Police in the Midwest had successfully paired GeoSpy with license plate readers to track a human trafficking victim from an Instagram Live stream in a moving car. GeoSpy pinpointed an area from a cropped image of the back window, and by working with local authorities where GeoSpy predicted, they tracked the same car passing by local license plate reader systems, ultimately leading to the victim's rescue.

Reflecting on what we set out to do as a team, our goal was to build technology to safeguard American freedom and prosperity. I strongly believe that to succeed at anything, we must focus. After one year of free access to GeoSpy, we pulled the plug on the public platform and decided to go all-in on law enforcement and government—not because it was our only market, but because it's where we saw the most impact.

As a company, we are still early in our journey, but our mission will never change. We dedicate ourselves to building technology to safeguard freedom, democracy, and American excellence. AI is not just for B2B SaaS and Silicon Valley. We believe that putting the most advanced AI systems in the hands of the men and women who serve our communities every day is a key part of America's future. As developments in AI move quickly, so will we.

Geolocating pictures was just the start. America deserves more. While Silicon Valley hype centers around LLMs, AGI, and SSI, our focus remains on visual intelligence—understanding the world we see with our eyes, what we call Visual Super Intelligence.

Enabling AI to perceive and comprehend the world through images will unlock a new frontier for law enforcement and government, enabling them to act more quickly and accurately in critical moments.

What is Visual Super Intelligence? To us, it is the ability of AI models to pick up on extremely small and imperceptible details and infer critical information from them. In our early cases, the type of sidewalk or gravel under someone's feet might hint at a location. These are not simple classification problems, but rather more nuanced challenges that require something new. Photo geolocation is an early step, but it demonstrates the potential of what the future may bring.

Visual Super Intelligence represents a leap beyond traditional computer vision, enabling AI to interpret the world with precision and contextual understanding, surpassing any human. By focusing on these capabilities, we aim to empower law enforcement and government with tools that can save lives in the moments that matter most

Many people ask how we have managed to develop and adapt so quickly with very few resources compared to many traditional Silicon Valley AI startups. We have been blessed with a mission that is both inspiring and exhilarating. Countless PhD students, engineers, data companies, and research labs have given us a helping hand because they loved the mission. With a tiny team, we have been able to shift the perspective of what is possible for photo geolocation, and we are excited about what comes next.

-Dan