SoundSafe.ai
Company

Midwest operators,
building for Midwest plants.

SoundSafe.ai builds correlation engines for physical infrastructure. We aren't another chatbot company — the work is unglamorous and specific: take the data a facility already produces, in all the incompatible formats it already lives in, and make it answer the questions the people running that facility actually ask. Everything we ship comes out of one engine, which is why a second product costs a customer a switch rather than a second deployment.

Founded January 2024 · Galena & Chicago, Illinois · Dubuque, Iowa

What we build · the industrial line

One engine. Two products in market today,
and the same engine underneath both.

Correlation is architectural, not a feature you add later — which is why these two share a spine instead of sharing a logo. Each resolves a different picture for a different buyer. Other product lines run on their own track, and you'll find those further down.

Unified Correlation Engine

OmniusGrid

Resolves a capacity picture

Can this site take the order, and what breaks first if it does? Documents and ERP records lead, machine telemetry follows. Bought by operations.

See OmniusGrid
Unified Threat Engine

The Security Layer

Resolves a threat picture

What just happened, and across how many of our sites? Cameras and audio lead, records follow. Runs over the VMS already installed, and sells standalone to a different buyer.

See the Security Layer

Evidence lineage, the causation guardrail, human approval and the hash-chained audit trail are properties of the engine itself — so every product inherits them rather than re-implementing them. Run both and each one sees more: what the cameras resolve becomes part of the operational picture.

Who you'd be working with

Four exceptional leads,
and no fluff.

Hamad Dada

CEO, co-founder

Leads development across operational intelligence, combining technical leadership with domain expertise. Former Operational Director at Sears, so the physical supply chains this deploys into are understood from the inside.

Johnny Stevenson

COO, co-founder

16+ years scaling businesses and industrial operations, and co-founder of Invasive Media. Owns commercialization, partnerships and market expansion.

Dr. Justin Sinkovich

Chief Strategy Officer

Technology strategist in organizational transformation with a doctorate from USC. Co-founder of Epitonic, a Webby Award winner, and Associate Dean of the School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Columbia College Chicago.

William R. Gray

Chief Financial Officer

Certified Public Accountant, MST, and CVA candidate. Series 7 and 66, licensed insurance producer with Regulation A+ experience. Formerly served in a United States Army intelligence unit.

The engineering bench

Six university partnerships
across three states.

Applied research, interns and doctoral collaboration — how a Midwest company staffs serious engineering at a fraction of coastal cost.

University of ChicagoIllinois Institute of TechnologyColumbia College ChicagoUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonUniversity of DubuqueLoras College
Galena, ILWhere the platform is built
Chicago, ILCommercial and university partnerships
Dubuque, IATri-state manufacturing corridor

Within a day's drive of 11,485 mid-market manufacturing sites — which is what keeps site surveys and calibration economical rather than a line item.

In development

More is being built — some of it feeds OmniusGrid,
some of it runs on its own track.

Two different things are in flight and it is worth keeping them apart. Some modules land inside OmniusGrid and make the answers it already gives sharper. Others are separate product lines with their own buyers, their own roadmaps and no dependency on an OmniusGrid deployment at all. None of it is generally available yet, and all of it is further along than a roadmap slide.

Separate product lines — their own path

OverPeak Vision In development

Inspection Intelligence at Scale

Computer-vision damage detection across roofing, concrete and solar — correlated into insurance-grade evidence rather than a folder of photographs. Its own product, its own buyers and its own roadmap — sold to inspection and insurance, not to a plant floor.

Roofing · Infrastructure · Solar
ReadinessQ In development

RQ — the Readiness Quotient

A 0–100 score for how likely an individual, team or unit is to execute its intended function to standard under current conditions. A separate line entirely: people and readiness rather than machines and throughput, with its own dashboard and its own customers.

Scoring engine · RQ Command · grounded fact surface

Modules that feed OmniusGrid

FreightHawk Feeds OmniusGrid

Freight Intel & Compliance Suite

Freight inspection today is manual and error-prone, which leaves compliance gaps and no verifiable record of cargo integrity. FreightHawk reads the lane with video intelligence instead — car types, ID numbers, cargo counts and securement detail down to strap count and condition, captured and analysed in real time. Guesswork becomes an audit-ready record.

→ Rail first · architected for road, sea and space
ShelfLinkOCR Feeds OmniusGrid

Automated Shelf Label Capture and Extraction

Warehouse inventory stalls on manual data entry — someone walking the racks writing labels down or scanning them one at a time. ShelfLinkOCR detects, reads and extracts shelf labels from video instead, then sorts and curates the data for export. A slow analog audit becomes a high-speed digital one.

→ Pointcloud stitching · inventory records the engine can correlate

A module arrives as a switch

FreightHawk and ShelfOCR land inside an OmniusGrid account you already have. The engine, the connectors and the audit trail are in place, so there is no new integration project, no second procurement and nothing new on the floor.

A separate line stands on its own

OverPeak Vision and ReadinessQ are not OmniusGrid features and do not need it deployed. They are their own products with their own buyers — built by the same team, held to the same evidence discipline.