An engineer who faked a missing editing feature using comment fields told Peregrine what to build next. A hurricane simulator stayed with one city. Co-founders Nick Noone and Ben Rudolph describe how they decide which piece of field improvisation becomes a product — and what they say it now costs to serve a city this way.
On the Training Data podcast, Peregrine's Ben Rudolph described integration agents that run for hours, inspect a customer's databases and split work among sub-agents, writing roughly 90% of the Python notebooks the company uses to connect public-safety records, under the deployment team's oversight. The conversation put the share of effort that happens before a user types a question at 95% — the preparation that let a Florida county ask why it had suddenly run more than a hundred water rescues.
On the Training Data podcast, Peregrine founders Nick Noone and Ben Rudolph argue that the public-safety software business has grown by collecting ever more data, and that their company inverts it: join the records an agency already holds, leave ownership with the agency, and lock down who may look. The same logic leads Noone to refuse a company-wide ban on facial recognition, leaving that decision to customers, law and local norms.
On the Training Data podcast, Peregrine co-founder Ben Rudolph describes building the company's first operational AI agent with a police customer that had worked a case ending in the exoneration of a wrongly convicted man, then asked whether an agent could reproduce the same findings. He says the agent, which runs for 30 to 60 minutes over hundreds of gigabytes of case evidence, is now used in a few US departments, including a Wisconsin county where a handful of phone records helped place a suspect. Co-founder Nick Noone says the company deliberately lets customers take the credit.