Introducing TimeSight AI: Connecting Time & Attendance With Video

What if your time and attendance system could tell you more than when someone punched?

Synerion is introducing TimeSight AI, a new workforce management capability that connects employee time punches to the video of that moment. When a punch is questioned, disputed, or flagged in an audit, the manager reviewing it has more than a timestamp to work with.

Connect supported cameras to Synerion and video comes into the timekeeping workflow directly. Managers can pull the video tied to a punch, search footage from a specific time, and get event notifications with the clip attached.

Time tells you when. TimeSight AI shows you what happened.

See the Context Behind the Punch

Traditional time and attendance software answers one question well: when did the employee punch?

Most days, that is enough. Some days it isn’t.

A punch looks wrong. An employee disputes a record from three weeks ago. An auditor asks for backup. A supervisor suspects buddy punching but has nothing beyond a suspicion.

Today that manager does the same thing every time. Find the timestamp in the timekeeping system. Note it down. Open the camera system. Scrub through footage looking for the right minute. Try to remember which entrance the employee uses.

TimeSight AI removes that hunt. When video is available for an eligible punch, authorized managers open the video event from inside the Synerion timecard. If they need to look wider, they can search footage from a specific time without leaving the workflow.

One record. One place. One decision.

Buddy Punching Stops Being a Guess

Buddy punching is the pain nobody wants to talk about in a reference call, and the one every operations leader recognizes.

You can suspect it. You can see the pattern in the data. Proving it is harder, and acting on a suspicion you cannot prove is how organizations end up in a grievance instead of a conversation.

Biometric clocks solve this at the device. TimeSight AI solves it at the record.

With cameras at your entrances and exits, the punch and the person arrive together. A manager reviewing a questionable entry sees who was standing at the clock. A disputed record gets resolved with evidence instead of a difference of recollection. A union grievance meeting starts from a shared fact rather than two competing accounts.

That matters most in the environments where time is the payroll input that carries the most risk: unionized manufacturing floors, multi-site healthcare, distribution centers running multiple shifts across several doors.

Get Alerted When It Happens, Not at Payroll

Managers are not standing at the entrance watching the clock.

They are running three sites. They are on a plant floor two buildings away. They are working from home on a Thursday. By the time an attendance problem surfaces, it usually surfaces during payroll processing, which is the worst possible moment to discover it.

TimeSight AI moves that visibility earlier. Managers can receive email notifications when employees:

• Arrive

• Leave

• Take a break

Those notifications can include the video clip tied to the event, so the manager gets the context in the same message as the alert. No system login, no separate camera search.

An event happens. The manager sees it. The issue gets handled the same day instead of on payroll close.

Use the Cameras You Have, or the Ones We Install

Two ways to deploy.

Add Synerion Security cameras at entrances, exits, and other locations where time events happen. These sit alongside your other data collection options: Synerion Fusion, Horizon, and Swift time clocks, Synerion Sentinel tablets, Synerion Mobile with geofencing, and access control.

Connect the cameras you already own, where the hardware is compatible. Most organizations running multiple facilities already have coverage at the doors that matter. TimeSight AI is designed to work with that existing infrastructure rather than requiring you to replace it.

Either path connects what happens in the physical workplace to the workforce data your managers use every day.

One Employee. One Workday. One Connected Record.

TimeSight AI is a video verification capability. It also points at something larger.

An employee’s workday touches several systems, and each one holds a fragment of the story. Synerion is connecting more of those fragments into a single record.

WHO: the employee. Synerion holds the workforce record, the schedules, the time history, and the rules that apply to that person.

WHAT: the scheduled workday. Synerion Scheduling defines when they are expected to work, including the models that break simpler systems: 9/80, 2-2-3, DuPont rotations, union seniority bidding.

WHERE: the physical workplace. Synerion Security extends the platform into video and access control, connecting what happens at the door to what happens in the timecard.

WHEN: the time event. Synerion Time & Attendance captures the punch and applies the rules: overtime, differentials, statutory holidays, accruals, meal and break compliance.

WHY: the context. A time record proves something happened. It cannot explain the circumstances. Video gives the manager the missing layer when a record needs to be questioned.

Scheduling, time and attendance, video, and access control, in one connected view.

Historically, workforce management and physical security ran as separate purchases, separate vendors, and separate logins. One system managed schedules and time. Another managed cameras. A third managed who gets through the door. TimeSight AI sits at the intersection of all three.

Built for Workplaces That Take Employee Privacy Seriously

Connecting video to employee time records raises a fair question, and it should be answered before anyone asks it.

TimeSight AI is built around controlled access, not open surveillance. Video tied to time events is available to authorized managers only. Access is governed by the same permission structure that controls the rest of your Synerion environment, and it runs in Synerion’s SOC 1 and SOC 2 certified cloud with data residency available in both Canada and the United States.

Who Gets the Most From This

TimeSight AI earns its keep fastest in organizations where:

• Multiple sites are managed by people who cannot be at all of them

• Time is the primary payroll input for a large hourly or unionized workforce

• Punch disputes and grievances consume real management hours

• Audits require documentation beyond a system-generated timestamp

• Buddy punching is a known cost that has been difficult to prove

If your managers currently resolve punch disputes by opening two systems and hoping the timestamps line up, this is built for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is TimeSight AI?

TimeSight AI is a Synerion workforce management capability that connects employee time punches to the corresponding video, giving authorized managers visual context when reviewing time and attendance events.

Can managers view video from an employee timecard?

Yes. When video is available for an eligible punch, authorized managers open the associated video event directly from the employee timecard. They can also search footage from a specific time when an investigation needs to go wider.

Does TimeSight AI help prevent buddy punching?

It helps you verify it. When a punch is questioned, the manager can review the video associated with that time event and see who was present, rather than relying on a timestamp alone.

Can TimeSight AI send managers activity notifications?

Yes. TimeSight AI can email managers when employees arrive, leave, or take a break, and those notifications can include the video clip tied to the event.

Does TimeSight AI work with existing cameras?

Synerion offers cameras that install as part of the Synerion Security ecosystem. TimeSight AI is also designed to connect with compatible existing camera infrastructure, so organizations with coverage already in place have both options.

How does TimeSight AI connect with Synerion Security?

Synerion workforce management provides time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, and labor allocation. Synerion Security provides video and access control. TimeSight AI is the link between them, connecting who is working, what they were scheduled to do, where the activity happened, when the time event occurred, and the video context that explains why a record may need attention.

Who can see the video?

Authorized managers only, governed by your existing Synerion permission structure.

What’s Next

TimeSight AI is a first step in connecting workforce management to the physical workplace, and another TimeSight capability is already in development.

We are not ready to share it yet. It is coming soon.

For now, we are glad to introduce TimeSight AI and give managers a way to see the story behind the time.

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See TimeSight AI in a live demo. Bring your hardest punch dispute from last quarter and we will walk through how it would have been resolved.

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