Applied AI · Computer vision · Products that work

Make the
unlikely
work.

Wild Ducks designs and builds AI systems that have to work outside the demo: cameras and video, models on ordinary hardware, agents people can supervise. Founder-led, with specialists joining per project, from first prototype to shipped product.

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Wild Ducks · New South Wales, Australia · Working worldwideRecent work

01 · Public workAll work

Some things need
to be built to be understood.

Street · 137°. Drag to spin it.

Runs the real RightWayUp model on your device (about 38 MB, loaded when you first use it).

NewRightWayUp · Open weights with ORTUS AI

Teaching a model
which way is up.

RightWayUp measures how far an image is rotated, across the full 360°, and recognises when a view has no “up” at all. Built for camera monitoring, it keeps working on dim, blurred and compressed frames. Released on 30 September 2026 under Apache-2.0, in six sizes; the smallest runs here, on your device.

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ORTUS AI product · With Wild Ducks

CHEQIT

A camera can be online.
And still miss the point.

Camera-health monitoring that catches blur, freeze, darkness and a shifted view before anyone needs the footage.

The Wild Ducks part

ORTUS AI product · With Wild Ducks

ORTUS Live

From the sensor
to the wrist.

Live people-flow analytics from video, with phone and watch apps for the people on the floor.

The Wild Ducks part

BanterGeist · Proof of concept, 2024

Give AI a voice.
Keep your own.

Two voices. A well-timed interruption. A laugh in the right place. Synthetic conversation with a human in the director’s chair.

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Concept artwork

Our own products

Real and in use, and not ready to be described in detail yet. Ask if one sounds useful.

02 · What we work on

Technology should expand what people can do.

That is the thread through the work: a camera becomes useful perception, a model becomes a creative instrument, a collection of agents becomes work you can still steer.

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See

A field of observations resolves into a connected sphere.

Choose a kind of work

Cameras and video people can trust.

A camera image, a changing screen, a noisy stream of observations. The useful question is what a person can understand and do with it.

Computer vision · Video analytics · Evidence

RightWayUp CHEQIT Vehicle recognition

03 · ExperienceFounded by Vladimir Ilyash

Twenty-five years
of making systems work.

Software, then camera and fibre networks, banking infrastructure, vision AI across international markets, and now applied AI and agents.

Wild Ducks is founder-led. You work directly with the person designing and building the system, and specialists join when the project needs them. That range is what makes it possible to see both the technical opportunity and what it will take to make it useful.

About Wild Ducks

Reported as a world first · 2014, before Wild Ducks

A billboard that knew
what you were driving.

Real-time make and model recognition on a live road, built from IBM video analytics and an early deep-learning model. Porsche and Lexus ran the first campaigns in Australia; Chevrolet and Paramount’s Transformers took it to the United States.

How it worked

1999Building software and systems since

World firstAs reported for a Porsche billboard, January 2015

Sensor to watchEdge inference, cloud, web, phone and watch apps

Open weightsRightWayUp, released with ORTUS AI, 2026

04 · Where to start

Make the
unlikely
work.