MISSION & VISION

Advertising as
precise as
GPS.

We believe every screen in every high-footfall space is a precision instrument waiting to be activated. AdverTease solves the last-mile problem in advertising — the gap between where audiences physically are and where ads actually go.

"The broadcast ad was built for a world where geography didn't matter. We live in a world where every metre of distance is a dimension of relevance — and our engine exploits that completely."
— AdverTease Mission Statement
01 — THE ORIGIN

A problem hiding
in plain sight.

Walk into any restaurant, café, or waiting lounge in India. There's a TV running a cricket match or a news channel. During the ad break — a national brand spends lakhs to reach that single room of 20 people who could walk out the door and buy something from the shop next door.

Meanwhile, the café owner across the street — who has the perfect product for that exact moment — cannot afford a single second of that airtime. And the broadcaster has no way to split it.

AdverTease was built to fix this mismatch at the infrastructure layer — placing intelligence directly at the edge, where the signal meets the screen.

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OBSERVATION
India has 200M+ TV screens
~40% in high-footfall public spaces
 
PROBLEM
National TV ad min spend → ₹5L+
SMB avg ad budget → ₹20K/mo
Gap = 25× barrier
 
SOLUTION
advertease.box → Edge AI. Offline. 48ms.
Key Insight

The breakthrough: you don't need broadcaster permission to replace an ad at screen level. The signal passes through the device. The device has intelligence. The screen shows device output — not broadcaster transmission.

02 — ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES

Constraints we
don't negotiate.

Six design decisions baked into every line of code we write — not aspirational values but literal technical constraints.

PRINCIPLE_01

Edge First, Cloud Never

Every critical function — detection, matching, delivery — runs on the device. Cloud is for syncing and analytics. Never for real-time decisions. Latency is a hard constraint, not a feature.

PRINCIPLE_02

Invisible by Design

Our best feature is one nobody notices. A seamless ad switch, an imperceptible transition, an uninterrupted viewing experience. If the viewer perceives AdverTease, we failed the brief.

PRINCIPLE_03

Constraint-Driven Innovation

We build for the hardest hardware targets first. If it runs on a ₹2,000 SBC, it runs brilliantly on anything better. Resource limits are our design gymnasium, not our limitation.

PRINCIPLE_04

Device-Level Precision

We're not interested in city-level targeting. We care about a single screen in a single venue on a single afternoon. That granularity of intent is where real advertising value lives.

PRINCIPLE_05

Revenue for All Layers

Our model creates value at every point in the chain — venue owners earn, local advertisers reach, viewers see relevant content. A sustainable ad ecosystem distributes, not extracts.

PRINCIPLE_06

Privacy by Architecture

We collect no viewer biometrics or personal data. Intelligence operates at context level — venue type, time, channel genre. No faces, no tracking, no profiles. Privacy is non-negotiable.

03 — MILESTONES

Where we've been.
Where we're going.

Active development with a working proof-of-concept demonstrated on live broadcast content. Scaling now toward pilot deployments with our first location partners.

Current Status
POC HardwareComplete
AdverTease-Vision-NetComplete
Audio Fingerprint DSPComplete
HDMI Switch Latency48ms ✓
Campaign PlatformIn Development
Pilot DeploymentsQ3 2025
Q3 2024
Core AI Pipeline — v1
Multi-modal ad detection prototype. Audio fingerprinting + basic CV on development hardware. First successful ad break detection on live broadcast.
Q1 2025
Edge Optimisation
INT8 quantization of CV model. MFCC pipeline optimised for ARM. First end-to-end test on resource-constrained hardware — 48ms avg latency achieved.
Q2 2025
AdverTease Box — Prototype
First physical prototype. HDMI passthrough working. Real-time ad switching demonstrated on live cricket broadcast. Demo video recorded.
Q3 2025
Campaign Platform Beta
Web-based campaign manager in development. Partner onboarding flow. First 10 venue pilot targeting Bangalore restaurants and clubs.
Q4 2025
Pilot Partner Deployments
50-venue pilot in Bangalore. Revenue share model validation. First brand advertiser campaigns go live. Metrics collected for Series A preparation.
Q2 2026
Multi-City Expansion
500+ venues across 3 cities. Programmatic marketplace launch. Media partner integrations. Platform API published.
04 — FOR INVESTORS

The numbers
that matter.

₹35K Cr
India TV ad market TAM
₹3K+ Cr
Serviceable hyperlocal opportunity (SAM)
₹0
Cloud cost per ad served — fully on-device
200M+
TV screens in India (existing infrastructure)
Why Now

Edge AI hardware costs have collapsed 10× in 5 years

ARM SBCs capable of real-time CV inference now cost under ₹2,000 — making per-venue economics viable at scale without capital subsidy.

Moat

The switching logic is proprietary and deeply technical

Multi-modal ad detection, INT8-quantized edge CV, and frame-accurate compositing represent 12+ months of R&D — not replicable with off-the-shelf models.

Business Model

Revenue-share on every impression — near-zero marginal cost

Once a device is deployed, every ad served has near-zero variable cost. Gross margins improve rapidly with scale.

Expansion Path

Identical technology applies to any screen-and-source pair globally

Once proven in India, the same stack deploys to any country with cable/DTH infrastructure. The core engine is jurisdiction-agnostic.

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05 — CONTACT

Let's build the
hyperlocal media
layer together.

Whether you're an investor, a venue owner, a media partner, or just curious about the technology — we'd love to talk.