StoriesApr 22, 20266 min read
The night DSPRS was born
A wedding in Marrakech, 4,200 photographs, and one moment that nobody, including the bride, would have ever seen.
Mariam Adel
Founder & CEO
DSPRS Journal
Notes on photos, people, and AI.
The thinking behind the platform. Stories from the events. The occasional deep dive into how it all works.
Engineering·11 min read
How we made face matching fast enough to feel like magic
The journey from 90-second matches to 1.8 seconds, and the seven engineering decisions that mattered more than any model upgrade.
Yusuf Saleh
Privacy·8 min read
Why we don't keep your photos
An architecture diagram, in English. A face vector is not a photograph. It cannot become one. And we delete it the moment it's no longer needed.
Lena Park
Engineering·7 min read
The 1.8-second promise
An annotated timeline of what happens between the moment you upload a selfie and the moment your gallery appears.
Aya Mansour
Craft·9 min read
What makes a photo of you, actually you
An essay on the difference between being captured and being seen, and what a memory engine has to learn before it can return the right one.
Tomas Vega
Field notes·7 min read
The finish line is 800 milliseconds away
Berlin Half Marathon, 21,200 runners, fourteen photographers. Every finisher had their finish-line photo before they returned the chip.
Karim Reda
Field notes·6 min read
The wedding album that arrived before brunch
1,400 guests, three photographers, 6,847 frames, a riad in Marrakech. Every guest woke up to their own album the next morning.
Mariam Adel
Privacy·5 min read
What happens to your face vector after a year
The data lifecycle, in plain English. Auto-deletion windows, audit trails, a real number for our right-to-be-forgotten SLA.
Lena Park
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