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From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup


Abel creates AI that uses body cam footage and other data to fill out consuming police reports. For research, founder Daniel Francis shadowed the police.

His company, Abel, creates AI that uses body cam footage and dispatch call data to fill out normally-time consuming police reports. In 2022, Francis helped a close friend escape an abusive marriage, secretly relocating her and her child to a new home in the dead of night. He made the initial Abel demo with homemade body cam footage, roleplaying petty crimes like littering with his friends.

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