{"id":41643,"date":"2026-07-20T17:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=41643"},"modified":"2026-07-20T17:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:55:31","slug":"tickdetect-brings-ai-powered-tick-screening-to-warren-county-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2026\/07\/tickdetect-brings-ai-powered-tick-screening-to-warren-county-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"TickDetect Brings AI-Powered Tick Screening To Warren County Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41644\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/07\/tickdetect-v-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/07\/tickdetect-v-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/07\/tickdetect-v.jpg 567w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Montgomery demonstrates TickDetect, an AI tool that screens for ticks and rashes.<br \/>Courtesy TickDetect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Carol Ann Conover<\/p>\n<p>When Tim Montgomery\u2019s daughter made three visits to the emergency room in a single week, the diagnosis wasn\u2019t the flu. It was babesiosis, a tick-borne parasite that attacks red blood cells. \u201cShe ended up spending three visits to the emergency room over a week with a temperature of north of 103 for the whole week,\u201d Montgomery said. His sister also has battled Lyme disease for years, and his brother has been infected twice. \u201cIt\u2019s just an awful thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those family experiences, along with a tick Montgomery recently had removed from his back at Hudson Headwaters, led the Queensbury entrepreneur to build TickDetect, a free artificial intelligence tool that helps people \u2014 and their pets \u2014 check for ticks and tick-related rashes before the bites become more serious.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery founded TIMIT Solutions in January 2012 after a 20-year career at GE and a series of executive roles running global technology, health care and staffing businesses. The Queensbury-based firm primarily serves midsize companies, generally those with $10 million to $1 billion in revenue, by building custom software, modernizing legacy systems and offering chief information officer coaching and mentoring, Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>TickDetect, the company\u2019s newest project, runs entirely in a phone\u2019s web browser \u2014 no app store download is required. Users photograph their skin or a pet\u2019s fur, and the tool uses Claude AI Vision to identify tick species, attachment status and rash patterns, generating a private report users can bring to a doctor or veterinarian. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason to download an app at all,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy was central to the design, Montgomery said. Photos are analyzed and then discarded rather than stored, and the tool collects no names or other identifying information unless a user opts in to share anonymous usage data. \u201cIt records no personal information. Nothing is ever stored. It\u2019s totally encrypted,\u201d he said. The platform is built to comply with European and California privacy regulations, according to Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><span class=\"\"><b><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span>The idea grew out of a simple frustration, he said: It is nearly impossible to check hard-to-see spots such as the scalp or the middle of the back for a tick bite. \u201cI thought, gee, it\u2019s so hard to, you know, for example, look at the top of my scalp or the back of my neck or my back,\u201d he said. TickDetect also works for dogs, cats and even horses, whose fur can make a bite easier to miss.<\/p>\n<p>The tool is free during its public beta rollout in Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties, and Montgomery said a paid tier is planned at $4.99 a month for an individual or $9.99 a month for a family of five, with a limited free option remaining available. Montgomery said he also is considering developing an opt-in feature that would let users anonymously share their general location to help track tick density regionally. \u201cI think that\u2019s a great idea that I\u2019m going to follow up with local agencies on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The region provides an obvious testing ground. Warren County sits in one of New York\u2019s higher-incidence zones for Lyme disease, according to TIMIT Solutions, and the county began building its own tick-tracking website this year to monitor bite reports. The county\u2019s tracker had logged nearly 240 ticks as of spring, according to Warren County Planning and Development. Statewide, New York has averaged more than 17,500 new Lyme disease cases annually over the past three years, with more than 19,000 reported in 2023 alone, according to the state Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery, who grew up in the Glens Falls area and returned in 2014 after years working abroad, said he sees TickDetect as a natural extension of his technology career. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to be back home and I like that I can help keep people safe while they enjoy this beautiful area,\u201d he said. More information is available at timitsolutions.com\/tickdetect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carol Ann Conover When Tim Montgomery\u2019s daughter made three visits to the emergency room in a single week, the diagnosis wasn\u2019t the flu. It was babesiosis, a tick-borne parasite that attacks red blood cells. \u201cShe ended up spending three visits to the emergency room over a week with a temperature of north of 103 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":41644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-office-technology-e-commerce"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>TickDetect Brings AI-Powered Tick Screening To Warren County Residents - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2026\/07\/tickdetect-brings-ai-powered-tick-screening-to-warren-county-residents\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TickDetect Brings AI-Powered Tick Screening To Warren County Residents - Saratoga Business Journal\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Carol Ann Conover When Tim Montgomery\u2019s daughter made three visits to the emergency room in a single week, the diagnosis wasn\u2019t the flu. 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