No RFID chips. No table retrofit. No cloud.
Spades AI reads every card, chip stack and round at the table in real time, from one camera and one edge device, fully on-premises. It runs our Spades Display and powers products from table-game suppliers.
Replay of a real blackjack round recorded by a table camera, as the Spades Vision tracker followed it. box 1: 4 of hearts, 9 of diamonds, 13, wins; box 2: 9 of hearts, ace of clubs, 20, wins; box 4: 7 of hearts, 10 of diamonds, 17, wins; box 5: 4 of diamonds, 6 of clubs, 5 of hearts, 15, wins; box 6: 6 of clubs, 5 of spades, 2 of diamonds, 13, wins; box 7: 5 of spades, 8 of clubs, queen of clubs, BUST, loses. Dealer: 5 of hearts, king of diamonds, queen of hearts, bust.
The same live data runs products for entertainment, operations and surveillance, built by us or by the table-game suppliers who build on Spades AI. The first of them, Spades Display, follows below.
Real play drives what players see, hear and bet on.
Spades Display
Dealer history, live odds and dealer stats on the sign as each round is dealt.
Live game effects
Lights, sound and animation set off by the real hand: a blackjack, a bust, a side bet that pays.
New side bets
Game states too complex to settle by hand, like a run of splits, become bets the whole table can follow.
… and whatever else should react to the real game.
Every table measured, not observed.
Pace and occupancy
Hands per hour, idle time and open seats, for every table and every hour.
Side-bet participation
Uptake of every side bet on the felt, yours and other suppliers’, to show which games earn their place.
Table data without typing
Hands played, seat activity and bet participation go straight to your casino management system.
Dealer assist
Payouts guided and dealing mistakes caught at the table, while they can still be fixed.
Attention goes to the tables and rounds that need it.
Payout and procedure alerts
A lost or pushed hand that gets paid, late bets, dealer card errors, a camera moved or blocked: flagged the moment it happens.
Advantage play
A live card count per table points your team to the tables worth a closer look.
Round video
Every alert comes with the video of its round. Your team reviews, decides and logs.
Reporting
Every alert and its review in one report, by table and gaming day.
Spades Display puts every round on the sign the moment it is dealt: dealer history, live odds, dealer stats and side bets. No buttons, no dealer input, no extra steps on the floor. It is one camera on top of the sign, with Spades AI underneath.
+5% more drop at tables with the display
Method: two years of table data at Swiss Casinos Zürich, tables with the display compared with tables without, adjusted for seasonality.
20+ tables across Switzerland and partner deployments in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
3.5+ years in live operation. Millions of rounds recorded.
Two more casinos are installing Spades AI right now. Their names will follow soon.
Two more table-game suppliers are building Spades AI into their products. See them first at ICE 2027.
Everything is processed on the device at the table.
Replay of a real blackjack round recorded by a table camera, as the Spades Vision tracker followed it. box 2: jack of clubs, 5 of diamonds, 15, loses; box 3: jack of diamonds, 4 of clubs, 14, surrenders; box 4: 4 of clubs, 8 of clubs, 12, surrenders; box 5: king of hearts, 3 of diamonds, 6 of diamonds, 19, pushes. Dealer: 8 of spades, ace of hearts, 19. Alert: Payout on a pushed hand · Player 5.
Use the camera you prefer. For casino installs we suggest a small, unobtrusive one; partner products ship with a compact, inexpensive 4K camera. Spades AI works from angles as low as 15° above the table center. The rule is simple: if a person can read every card on the stream, Spades AI can too.
A palm-sized NVIDIA Jetson at the table processes 20 frames per second. It installs from a USB stick in about 5 minutes, calibrates in under 5 minutes per table, and recalibrates itself if the camera moves. After setup it runs offline, and video stays on the device.
Every round becomes structured data. It feeds an MQTT event stream and an HTTP API for your systems, the Spades Display, Excel reports, and a panel with video of every round.
No RFID chips. No table retrofit. No cloud.
We count rounds, not detections. A round is correct only if every card in every hand, players and dealer, is recorded correctly. No partial credit.
Measured on randomly sampled live rounds in Swiss casinos, checked by hand against the round video.
We deliver the recognition and stand behind the data quality. You own the product, the brand and the player experience, from table displays to casino management systems.
No. Spades AI works with the camera you prefer, as long as a person can read every card on the stream. We suggest a small, unobtrusive camera; Spades AI works from angles as low as 15° above the table center.
No. Everything is processed on the device at the table. After setup it runs offline, and remote support is optional and can be blocked.
The device installs from a USB stick in about 5 minutes. Calibration takes under 5 minutes per table and can be copied to identical tables. Updates also come on a USB stick and are always fully offline, designed for air-gapped casino environments.
Full diagnostic reports can be downloaded to a USB stick at the table. For immediate support, you can open remote access on demand; it is optional and closed the rest of the time.
Blackjack, with configurable dealing procedures for each style of play, such as US, European or UK, and configurable side bets. Baccarat and Ultimate Texas Hold'em deployments are in progress.
99.3% full-round accuracy: a round counts only if every card in every hand, players and dealer, is recorded correctly. It was measured on randomly sampled live rounds in Swiss casinos.
No. Spades AI flags rounds and shows the video; your team reviews and decides. Every correction is logged.
Yes. It provides an MQTT event stream and an HTTP API, and we have lots of integration experience with big partners.
An engineering team in Zurich, Switzerland, one of the world’s leading centers for computer vision. We were founded in 2023 and have been in casinos since 2022.
We'll walk you through real rounds from a casino floor and show what the data looks like for your tables or your product.