Getting Started

Pariah is a facial-recognition security platform for retail and commercial venues. It pairs cloud software with on-premises hardware so that continuous recognition runs locally on your site while management, search, and alerting happen from anywhere.

The moving parts

• Dashboard — the web app (app.pariah.dev) where you manage profiles, sites, devices, incidents, billing, and your team.
• NVR client — software that runs on a machine at your premises, pulls your camera feeds, and performs continuous face detection and matching locally.
• Mobile app — iOS/Android app for frontline staff: live alerts, manual lookups, and incident logging.
• Cloud API — ties it together: accounts, billing, notifications, and on-demand cloud search.

How recognition works

Continuous detection runs on-premises on the NVR client — your camera feeds and the biometric templates generated from them stay on your site, which keeps cloud exposure (and cost) low. Cloud face search is used only for manual lookups initiated from the mobile app.

First run

Onboarding walks you through it in order:

1. Account — create your operator account and verify your company.
2. Plan — choose a subscription tier.
3. Hardware — order an NVR appliance or bring your own.
4. Deploy — set up your first site.
5. Legal — review and accept the Terms, DPA, and Acceptable Use Policy.
6. Pay — confirm and activate.

Once you're in, the typical next steps are: connect the NVR and your cameras, enrol your first profiles, and invite your team.

Before you go live

Facial recognition is heavily regulated in the UK. You are the data controller and must have a lawful basis, a completed DPIA, and clear signage in place before processing anyone. See Compliance.