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Ocapii, an AI-enabled operational intelligence platform, today announces the completion of a seed funding round alongside the launch of its new brand identity, marking a step-change in both ambition and capability for the business formerly known as Safely Systems.
The investment, led by [INVESTOR NAME / to be confirmed], will accelerate product development, expand the company's go-to-market capability, and support the rollout of ocapii's platform across new sectors and geographies. Terms of the round are not being disclosed.
The rebrand from Safely Systems to ocapii reflects a fundamental evolution in what the platform does. Where Safely Systems was built around food safety and compliance workflows, ocapii is an industry-agnostic operational intelligence platform — connecting IoT sensors, digital workflows, AI-driven analytics, computer vision, energy monitoring, bookings, inventory and document intelligence into a single integrated system.
"This funding is validation that the problem we are solving is significant - and that we are the right team to solve it. Most organisations already have the data they need to run far better operations. They just cannot see it, connect it, or act on it in time. ocapii changes that. The rebrand is not cosmetic; it is a declaration of what we are building and who we are building it for."
- Luis Welton, Founder & CEO, ocapii
The platform takes its name and inspiration from the Okapi, the rare 'Phantom of the Forest' known for surviving one of the world's most complex environments through extraordinary awareness and precision. ocapii was born from first-hand experience in the Ituri Rainforest, where critical operational intelligence was being captured daily but stored in folders, impossible to connect or act on. That experience revealed a pattern that holds true across every industry: the most valuable intelligence is already there — it is just invisible.
The ocapii platform operates across a core loop of Capture, Connect, Automate, Alert, Act, Prove, Analyse and Improve, shifting organisations from reactive management to continuous, evidence-based performance improvement. It is available as a modular, cloud-based subscription and is designed to deploy rapidly across single-site independents, multi-site operators, and large national enterprises alike.
The launch comes at a moment of significant market opportunity. An estimated 70 per cent of organisations still rely on paper as their primary operational record system, while rising regulation, energy costs, labour pressures and ESG scrutiny are making operational visibility a boardroom priority. IoT connectivity and AI have reached a tipping point in affordability and scale — and ocapii is positioned to be the platform that converts that into measurable performance improvement.
Commercial results from existing customers illustrate the scale of that opportunity. A single site using ocapii saves an average of 225 minutes per day in operational tasks more than 1,350 hours and over £16,700 in staff time annually. Scaled across a 15-site operator, that efficiency difference exceeds £250,000 per year. Energy monitoring data from 23 refrigeration units identified avoidable overcooling costing operators more than £2,400 per year, corrected within weeks of deployment.
Ocapii's AI capabilities include predictive insight, natural language operational search, smart decision support, and Owlbert Vision — a governed computer vision module that continuously analyses physical environments, flags anomalies in real time, and routes exceptions for human review with a full audit trail.
"What excites us about ocapii is the breadth of the problem they are addressing and the strength of the approach. Operational intelligence is not a niche compliance issue it is a universal business performance challenge. The team has built something genuinely differentiated, and this is the right moment to scale it."
- [INVESTOR NAME], [INVESTOR TITLE / FIRM]
Ocapii is available now. The company is actively expanding its customer base across hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, facilities management, education, leisure, and beyond.