Skipping Photoshop: How we made ID Badge creation 10x faster by using facial recognition

Recently TrueAccord has grown to the size where our compliance stance requires the addition of photo ID badges. It’s a rite of passage all small-but-growing companies endure and ours is no different.

Since I have previous experience setting up badge systems and dealing with the printers, I volunteered to kickoff this process. I’ve evaluated pre-existing badge creation software in the past and found them all significantly lacking. In a previous environment, I wrote my own badge creation software which fit the needs at the time. The key phrase being “at the time“. For tech startups, it’s not unusual to go from onboarding one person every other week, to 10 people a week in a year or two. That means every manual step for onboarding someone will go from an “oh well, it’s just once every other week” to “we need to dedicate several hours of someone’s time every week to this process.” Typically that same growth period also happens to be when your operations (IT, Facilities, and Office Admin) organizations are the most short staffed and the least likely to have the free time to do that. “Where is this going?” and “How much work does this mean for me?”, you ask? Allow me to share with you how I automated our badge system – Photoshop included.

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