Gather AI

Gather AI develops autonomous solutions for inventory monitoring. The company’s drones navigate through warehouses, scanning products 15 times faster than humans do for cycle counting and stock-taking, and providing warehouse operators with real-time inventory updates in a web dashboard. The drones read and infer bar codes, search for misplaced inventory, and find and review inventory exceptions, reconciling the data and images they collect with the warehouse management system (WMS). Newer features include Location Occupancy, which leverages computer vision to evaluate warehouse space and notify operators when products and pallets can be consolidated to maximize space efficiency.

Gather offers its drones as part of an “inventory-as-a-service” solution: For a fixed recurring fee, customers have access to the drones, their accompanying software, the data they collect, and a dedicated project manager to support everything from setup to troubleshooting. There are no hidden fees—customers pay as they scale with Gather’s per-warehouse pricing. The solution requires neither infrastructure changes nor process changes, and is easily deployed and quickly scalable.

“Using our computer-vision enabled drones, we helped one warehouse find $1M in lost inventory,” says founder and CEO Sankalp Arora. “This is just one example of many that exist where businesses are losing millions every year. An as-a-service model allows us to replace traditional manual techniques with an automated approach to inventory, improving accuracy, cutting costs, reducing the hazards of manual work at heights, and driving revenue through faster, more accurate shipments. And no one has to acquire or maintain hardware to reap these benefits.”