How Chicken Ranch Replaced Motion-Only Gaps With Six Months of Searchable Video

Safety First, With Video That Left Gaps

Chicken Ranch is a licensed adult entertainment venue in Nevada. For COO Will Paccione, the priority is unambiguous: “Safety is the most important thing.” The operation runs a tight front-of-house — screening visitors, maintaining watch and ban lists, and documenting incidents — and it needed reliable, comprehensive video along with faster ways to find what mattered.

The previous system (Vertex) wasn’t capturing continuously. As cameras were added, retention shrank, and motion-only recording created gaps. On busy days, storage quickly filled with noise — even décor moving in the wind — which made it hard to prove what did or didn’t happen.

Low-light footage limited overnight awareness as well, a real constraint for a perimeter-sensitive desert property.

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Continuous Recording, Search by Description, Upgrades Included

Cost required stakeholder buy-in, but Coram’s model made the cut: continuous recording, modern AI tools, and upgrades included in the plan. Early demos sealed it — watching a search by description pull up the right clips, Paccione’s reaction was simple: “Exactly what I need.” Rollout involved some recabling and a week of IT work, and Coram’s licensing and platform costs were a portion of the total.

Coram stood out for a few specific reasons:

• Six-month, uninterrupted look-back: Go back to a specific time on a specific day to verify claims and resolve disputes
• AI that works the way staff think: Plain-English search, plus Journey Path to follow a person across cameras
• Stronger night performance: Clear low-light footage where overnight awareness matters most
• Upgrades included: New capabilities arrive as part of the plan, backed by responsive engineering access

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Faster Look-Backs and Clearer Nights

With continuous recording in place, retention is something the team can trust: months of footage eliminated blind spots and “empty” motion gaps. Shift managers monitor on dual displays, and the team leans on Discover for quick look-backs — everything from describing a critical incident to a lighthearted check on the resident cat. “I could type cat… and just figure it out,” Paccione said.

What Chicken Ranch Is Doing with Coram

• Going back months: Six months of uninterrupted video means a specific time on a specific day is there when it is needed.
• Searching by description: Natural-language queries, such as a clothing color, surface the right clips fast.
• Following a person across cameras: Journey Path tracks movement from one view to the next.
• Seeing clearly overnight: “It’s night and day, literally night and day, because at night it looks like it’s daytime now.”
• Keeping watch on shift: Shift managers monitor on dual displays, with Coram upgrades arriving as part of the plan.

“We’re very happy with it so far,” Paccione said, and referrals are already in motion. With continuous recording, fast AI search, and clearer nights, the venue has strengthened safety and made investigations simpler.

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