QuantumEye — a computer-vision platform for retail loss prevention, deployed across UK retailers. Plus a steady stream of smaller experiments collected at erpik.com/lab: AI tools, agents, music, scripts.

What's Sam like to work with?

Direct, fast, and hands-on across product, design, engineering, and go-to-market — which usually means fewer handoffs and shorter loops. UK-based, remote-friendly, prefers small teams where decisions ship.

Is Sam free for a project?

Currently yes — open for senior individual contributor roles, founding-engineer positions, or fractional CTO work. Email sameterpik@gmail.com or use the contact form at erpik.com.

Sam Erpik — Technical Founder · Product Leader · Builder

Co-founder of QuantumEye (computer vision for retail loss prevention). 10+ years building digital products end-to-end across design, engineering, and go-to-market. UK-based, remote-friendly. Currently open for senior IC, founding-engineer, or fractional CTO work.

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Cameras are everywhere. None of them think.

Cameras are everywhere. None of them think. Most retail crime walks out past cameras that record but don't understand. The actual hard problem in retail loss prevention, with sources. *Why throwing more cameras at retail theft stopped working, and what the back-room DVR is actually telling you.* UK retail crime cost the sector [£4.2 billion in 2023/24](https://brc.org.uk/news-and-events/news/operations/2025/ungated/brc-retail-crime-survey-2025/). £2.2 billion of that walked out in customers' pockets. 20 million theft incidents that year. 55,000 a day. Most of it walked out past cameras that were recording. The footage exists. It sits on DVRs in back rooms, taped over on a cycle, watched by precisely nobody. The £4.2 billion did not walk out past blind cameras. It walked ou

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