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Matthew Visher · [email protected] · matthewvisher.com · Salt Lake City, Utah

About

One career, told in order.

I spent 21 years as a sworn law enforcement officer, retiring as a sergeant. That means two decades of using the tools this industry sells: the cameras, the plate readers, the records systems, the video that did or didn't hold up when it mattered.

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Matthew Visher

Much of that career was spent on major investigations and covert surveillance: building covert hides, running video surveillance, and standing up quick, hasty deployments of covert and overt camera platforms to capture intelligence or evidence on long-running, sensitive, high-value cases. When a platform failed on one of those, you didn't lose a data point. You lost weeks of work, and sometimes the case.

Most of that technology was built by people who never had to depend on it at 2 a.m. You can tell.

Today I work on the other side of the counter. My day job is leading law enforcement business development for an AI video analytics company. On my own time I build independent tools that attack the gaps I kept running into: cameras that can't prove they were installed right, video that can't prove it's untampered, AI agents that can't prove what they did.

What I work on

  • Verification

    Signed video evidence and provenance (EdgeProof), and signed receipts for AI agent actions (AAR). If it can't survive a challenge, it isn't evidence.

  • Commissioning

    Tools that turn "the camera shows a picture" into a measurable pass or fail (camspec, the Commissioning Walk).

  • Agent infrastructure

    Making cameras and physical security systems something AI agents can actually operate (onvif-mcp).

  • Writing

    Notes from the Field, a series on what AI in physical security looks like when you've stood on both sides of it.

The progression

Practitioner
21 years sworn law enforcement, retired sergeant. Major investigations, covert surveillance, covert hides, rapid deployment of covert and overt video platforms on sensitive high-value cases.
Translator
Moved to the vendor side to explain agencies to technologists and technology to agencies.
Product leader
Director of law enforcement business development at an AI video analytics company.
Builder
Independent open-source tools and products for verification and commissioning.

Timeline

  1. 2026–

    Independent builder

    onvif-mcp, Agent Action Receipts, EdgeProof, camspec, Commissioning Walk

    Open-source verification and commissioning tools for physical security.

  2. 2026–

    Director of Law Enforcement Business Development

    An AI video analytics company

    Real-time crime centers and agency deployments; the vendor side of the counter.

  3. 2021–2026

    Regional Sales Manager

    Axis Communications, Utah

    Camera and access-control solutions for financial institutions and public agencies; integrator and A&E partnerships.

  4. 2020–2021

    Investigator

    Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing

    Regulatory compliance investigations; intelligence-platform consulting for real-time threat assessment.

  5. 2017–2020

    Fraud & Security Specialist Manager

    Deseret First Credit Union

    Fraud program (SAR/CTR, BSA/AML), physical security infrastructure (Axis + Milestone), law-enforcement liaison.

  6. 1996–2017

    Police Sergeant

    Unified Police Department, Salt Lake City

    Supervised multi-agency federal task forces (US Marshals, DEA, ATF, FBI, DHS); financial-crime and asset-forfeiture investigations; protocols for high-risk surveillance and confidential-informant management.

Certifications: Federal Task Force Operations · Axis Communications Systems · Milestone Systems · BSA/AML Compliance.
Education: Salt Lake Community College.