Why Visonic AI exists.
Most AI can caption a short clip. Almost none can truly understand a full-length film or episode. We build that deeper understanding of video, and we started where it mattered most: audio description that makes media accessible to everyone. On that same foundation, we now also power summarisation and short-form.
What the team is building, and why it matters.
Serious long-form understanding
Short clips and isolated captions are not enough. Audio description, episode packaging and short-form all depend on narrative context carried across the full title.
Builders who ship, not just research
We combine deep AI research and engineering with real product, accessibility and customer experience. A good model is only the start. What matters is turning it into something teams can pick up and use every day.
The world's best long-form video understanding
We are building the most capable AI model for understanding full-length film and episodic content, end to end. It is the engine behind everything we ship, and the reason our output holds up where clip-level tools fall apart.
Meet the team.
Ari Surana
Founder and Technology Lead
Ari is a seasoned technologist and engineer with a proven track record of building high-performance machine learning systems across enterprise software, ecommerce, media, and geospatial intelligence.
Before founding Visonic AI, he led AI application work at Atlassian, BigCommerce, and Nearmap, with a particular focus on large datasets, robust AI infrastructure, and production-grade computer vision systems.
Aditi Raheja
Co-Founder and Product Lead
Aditi has more than 15 years of experience across product marketing, customer engagement, and operational leadership in both the private and public sector.
She has delivered more than $800M in product revenue and focuses on translating technical capability into clear market value for teams, operators, and accessibility stakeholders.
Daniel Suess
Co-Founder and R&D Lead
Daniel has spent years building AI products at leading Australian companies, with hands-on experience taking computer vision systems from research to deployed products.
His work spans television, retail, and asset management, and he brings deep technical judgment to long-form video understanding, model evaluation, and multimodal system design.
Viren
Co-Founder and Customer Success Lead
Viren has more than 47 years of experience across Australia, the United States, Europe, India, and the Middle East, with a long track record of turning complex technology into commercially viable products.
His background in accessibility technology, product leadership, and customer-facing delivery grounds Visonic AI in practical deployment, trust, and workflow fit.