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Before INVEX
Talal spent six years as a safety technician on construction sites. He knew the problem exactly: it is impossible for one observer to see everything across a site spanning several hectares.
Talal Alharbi
From safety technician to computer vision engineer in his own company
Talal Alharbi
- 7
- Deployed sites
- 12 months
- Study duration
- Pre-seed
- Funding
I knew the problem six years before I knew the solution. The diploma did not teach me the problem — it taught me how to build the answer.2
The study journey
He chose the Computer Vision diploma specifically because it was the shortest path to solving his problem. He studied in the evenings and kept his day job throughout the twelve months.
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The turning point
His capstone was a safety equipment detection system. His former manager saw it in the club gallery and asked to trial it on a live site — which gave the project its first real data.
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Where they are now
Raqib is deployed on seven sites, Talal secured pre-seed funding from an accelerator, and he left his job to run the company full time.
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