A small team. A specific bet.
AIsle exists because Canadian retailers are losing $9.1B a year to theft and the tools they were sold are recording it, not preventing it. We think a smaller, sharper product — running on the cameras already on the ceiling — is the difference.
- 2026
- Kelowna, BC
- 4 people
- 4 stores (Q1)
- 49.8880° N
- 119.4960° W
- EN · FR
Three principles we won't compromise on.
Behavior, never faces.
Facial recognition is legally and ethically radioactive in Canada. We don't ship it — and we won't, even if customers ask for it. Our wedge is the absence of biometrics, not its presence.
The cameras you already own.
Hardware sales are how this category traditionally extracts value. AIsle doesn't. Software-only, per-camera-per-month, no capex, no rip-and-replace.
Customer service, not policing.
AIsle alerts staff to walk over and ask if a customer needs help. Eighty percent of shoplifting attempts end at that moment. We are not a tool for arrests, prosecution, or surveillance dossiers.
Two co-founders. Twenty years between them.
AIsle is led by an operator-builder pair: a marketing executive who spent a decade taking traditional businesses digital across Europe, and an AI engineer who builds real-time computer-vision and voice-agent systems for production.
Colin C. Schramm
Kelowna, BC · UBC MBA 2008
10+ year marketing and sales executive with a track record of taking traditional businesses through digital transformation. Most recently a managing consultant at CBO Communications in Cologne, where he directed PR and digital strategy for political and public-sector clients across Germany.
Prior: Director of Marketing & Digital Business at Aluform System (Germany, 2013–2019), where he led the company-wide transformation of a traditional B2B manufacturer into a data-driven, e-commerce-enabled organization. Earlier: account management at Kreisvier Communications in Basel, focused on consumer-goods POS campaigns and retail strategy.
- B2B retail go-to-market · brand positioning · POS
- EN · DE · FR
- MBA, UBC Vancouver · BA Marketing Communications, UBC
Lucas Senechal
Kelowna, BC · AI · CV · LLM systems
AI engineer who builds production computer-vision and LLM-agent systems end-to-end. The AIsle pipeline — real-time object detection, multi-object tracking, and action recognition running on commodity store hardware — is his specialty: turning open-source CV models (RT-DETR · ByteTrack · VideoMAE) into a deployable product.
Beyond AIsle, builds AI-native products across stacks: agentic voice systems (Whisper STT, vLLM-served LLMs, Twilio telephony), real-time decision engines combining vision and structured math, and LLM-driven discovery products on the Next.js + Supabase + Anthropic SDK stack. Owns deployment infrastructure (Vercel, RunPod GPU, Railway) end-to-end.
- Real-time CV · LLM agents · edge inference
- Python · TypeScript · vLLM · RT-DETR · Anthropic
- EN · FR
We started here for a reason.
Kelowna has roughly 190 Tier-1 retailers across a small geography — a perfect proving ground. Pattison Food Group is two hours away. The Save Our Streets coalition gives us a warm-introduction list to nearly every operator in the valley. We could have started anywhere. We started here because the customers and the problems are walking distance apart.
2026
Kelowna, BC
4 people
4 (Q1)
Loss prevention as a customer-service product.
The retail-loss-prevention category has historically been adversarial: cameras pointed at customers, security guards by the door, locked cabinets in front of basic goods. None of that is good for the shopper and almost none of it actually reduces shrink. The real reduction comes from presence — a staff member showing up at the right moment with the right question. The instrument that makes presence affordable, at scale, is what AIsle ships. The cameras are already there. We just give them a job they can finish.
Want to be one of our first stores?
We're booking pilots through Q2 2026. 30-day commitment, generous discount.