peoly

Peoly is a Prague-based AI and machine learning software company founded through the 2022 acquisition and merger of GoodAI Solutions. The company operates across the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and the United States, with offices in Prague, České Budějovice, Vinnytsia, and San Francisco. Peoly specializes in video and audio analytics running on edge devices—primarily cameras from vendors like Axis Communications—and builds custom software for object detection, classification, behavioral analysis, and anomaly detection. The company works with automotive manufacturers, retail operations, smart city integrators, furniture platforms, and other enterprises across safety, logistics, manufacturing, and mobility sectors.

Services and capabilities

Peoly's core offering centers on AI-powered analytics deployed at the edge, running directly on embedded devices rather than requiring cloud infrastructure. The company handles the full stack: from algorithm development and model training through deployment and management on edge hardware.

In manufacturing and quality control, Peoly detects surface defects smaller than 0.1 mm with over 95% accuracy using custom illumination, camera modules, and convolutional neural networks. For retail and logistics, they track shopping carts, goods movement, people flow, and read QR codes and barcodes directly from camera feeds. Safety applications include PPE detection, crowd occupancy monitoring, and GDPR-compliant anonymization of video. Mobility and public space work covers parking utilization, passenger counting, and traffic analytics for smart city platforms.

Beyond edge analytics, Peoly delivers machine learning and NLP solutions. An in-house NLP system analyzes thousands of documents daily, classifying and storing them by type without manual review. The company has built voice recognition mobile apps optimized for Android using TensorFlow Lite, facial recognition pipelines on NVIDIA GPUs and DeepStream SDK, and proprietary sound analysis engines achieving 98% accuracy in diagnosing mechanical problems from audio alone. Peoly also develops microservices architectures, cloud applications, and big data analytics platforms.

Notable work

Axis Communications: Peoly became a Technology Integration Partner in 2024, developing embedded software for object detection, classification, tracking, and behavioral analysis on Axis cameras. Projects include monitoring airplanes at small airports, analyzing trash can usage in cities, tracking airport trolleys, and monitoring livestock.

Automotive manufacturing: For a major automotive client, Peoly built a defect detection system using custom illumination and trained neural networks to identify paint coating anomalies smaller than 0.1 mm with over 95% accuracy. The solution deploys both on-premises and in the cloud.

SmartCity traffic analytics: A European system integrator needed real-time traffic video analytics for a smart city platform. Peoly customized its software modules to deliver precise traffic data for pattern recognition, anomaly detection, and further integration into the customer's systems.

Furniture e-commerce: A furniture aggregator requested visual search capabilities. Peoly built a microservices-based system—deployed on Kubernetes—allowing customers to find similar products by uploading photos. The service included detector models, feature vector extractors, and approximate nearest neighbor search.

Document automation: For GasNet Czech Republic, Peoly designed and deployed a production-ready system automating document processing, generating estimated savings of 6,000 hours per year.

Retail object detection: Peoly assembled a team of ML specialists and senior developers experienced in real-time object detection, tracking, and behavioral analysis for a retail customer working with video feeds from store cameras.

Process automation: Peoly expanded a dedicated team from 5 to 15 people for a process automation platform provider, integrating third-party APIs and managing a nearshore development arrangement that became an exclusive partnership.

How they work

Peoly operates as both a custom development shop and a dedicated team provider. The company uses a nearshore model, recruiting locally and scaling teams to customer specifications. On one project for a process automation platform, they grew a team from 5 to 15 people within months based on specific skill requirements. Teams typically include ML specialists, senior developers, data annotators, and integration engineers. The company partners with NVIDIA (Metropolis program member) and Axis Communications, using technologies like NVIDIA DeepStream SDK, CUDA, and GStreamer for video pipeline work. Pricing and contract terms are negotiated per engagement rather than published on the website.

Team and credentials

Peoly's leadership includes CEO Petr Holý, CTO Jaroslav, and AI heads Stepan and Artem. The company has functional leads for integration, front-end development, and data science. Team size is not explicitly stated but the company describes itself as having "local ecosystems of experienced professionals, developers and universities" across Czech Republic and Ukraine, with the ability to scale dedicated teams on demand. Peoly is a Technology Integration Partner of Axis Communications and a member of NVIDIA Metropolis. The company was formed through the 2022 acquisition of GoodAI Solutions, which had been incubated within the Prague-based general AI research firm GoodAI.