Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems

**Executive summary:** The article profiles Conntour, a startup using vision-language models to enable natural-language search and automated monitoring across large numbers of security cameras, highlighting its ability to run efficiently at scale, deployment options (on-prem/cloud/hybrid), selective customer ethics, recent seed funding, and technical challenges balancing full LLM-style flexibility with resource efficiency.