Research
GeraLens is building the visual intelligence layer for the Gera ecosystem: computer vision pipelines that let users point a camera at an object, a document, or a physical space and receive immediate AI-driven action. Our research programme covers the full stack from low-latency on-device inference to the commercial models that make visual commerce economically viable at scale.
Research Themes
- Visual intent extraction. When a user photographs a cracked phone screen, a leaking pipe, or a rash, what should happen next? GeraLens research develops intent classification models that map visual input to commercial actions — insurance claims, home repair bookings, or clinic consultations — with confidence scores that determine when to act autonomously and when to ask the user to confirm.
- On-device inference for emerging markets. Many GeraLens target users carry low-end Android devices with limited RAM and no reliable data connection. We benchmark vision model architectures (MobileNetV3, EfficientDet, YOLO variants) on sub-$100 hardware and develop quantisation and pruning techniques that bring acceptable latency under 4G-constrained conditions.
- Document and receipt understanding. GeraLens powers document scanning across the Gera portfolio — insurance claim evidence, GeraFarm delivery receipts, GeraRent property inspection reports. We research OCR accuracy on handwritten and low-quality printed documents across 20+ scripts and evaluate hallucination rates in vision-language models on structured document extraction tasks.
- Economics of visual commerce. Point-and-buy experiences dramatically reduce purchase friction. We model the demand elasticity effects of visual commerce, the catalogue enrichment requirements for image-matched product discovery, and the fraud vectors that emerge when purchase intent is inferred from ambiguous visual signals.
First Articles — Q4 2026
The GeraLens research series launches in Q4 2026. First articles include a benchmark comparison of on-device vision models on low-end Android hardware, a case study of GeraLens-powered insurance claim photo analysis, and a market sizing analysis for visual-intent commerce in the Gera launch markets.
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