From Sensing to Predicting: The Next Era of Workplace Intelligence

The Next Era of Workplace Intelligence Starts Here

VergeSense has entered a new era of workplace intelligence. With Meridian, our Workplace AI platform, and Predictive Planning, the first module in our new Decision Intelligence suite, leaders can now move from understanding what’s happening in their workplaces to predicting what comes next.

Predictive Planning turns today’s occupancy signals, and VergeSense’s dataset of over 200M+ square feet, into forward-looking insights. It helps teams understand their true space supply, forecast future demand, compare scenarios instantly, and quantify the financial and experiential impact of every option.

Instead of relying on static ratios or consultant studies that take months to produce, teams can now generate predictive, portfolio-wide answers in hours. Whether your portfolio spans a few sites or hundreds, Predictive Planning creates a shared, data-driven foundation for every space decision that’s faster, clearer, and built for the pace of modern work.

From knowing what’s happening to knowing what’s next

Every day, millions of real estate and workplace data points from sensors, Wi-Fi signals, badges, and bookings tell the story of how space is really used. VergeSense turned that noise into clarity with Occupancy Intelligence, giving workplace and real estate leaders the visibility they need to manage their portfolios with confidence.

Over time, as real estate teams plan for the future, workplace strategies evolved as teams right-size their space, and hybrid work reshaped demand, one theme kept surfacing from our customers: data clarity isn’t enough anymore. Even with better visibility than ever before, workplace and real estate leaders are still confronted with questions they can’t answer quickly or confidently.

• What do we truly have today? Are we already at capacity, or sitting on hidden availability that isn’t obvious in spreadsheets or booking systems? 
• What will we need tomorrow? How will headcount growth, hybrid attendance shifts, or portfolio changes reshape space demand in the next quarter—or the next year?
• What are our options? If we restack, exit a lease, or expand, what would each scenario cost and how would it affect employee experience?
• What’s the financial impact? Which choices protect budgets, reduce waste, and deliver the fastest ROI?

Too often, those questions send teams back to static ratios, consultant-driven models, and backward-looking reports that take months to produce and are outdated by the time they’re delivered. The result isn’t a lack of visibility, it’s a lack of foresight.

The Evolution: From Occupancy Intelligence to Decision Intelligence

That’s why in September, VergeSense launched Meridian, the Workplace AI Platform that brings together the past, present, and future of workplace intelligence. Built on the industry’s largest workplace occupancy & utilization spatial dataset of over 200 million square feet of real-world occupancy data, Meridian powers a new suite of AI-driven capabilities called Decision Intelligence.

Here’s how it all fits together:

Occupancy Intelligence helps you see clearly. Decision Intelligence helps you plan confidently. And it all runs on Meridian: your single source of workplace truth.

Ready to move from sensing to predicting? Schedule a demo 

Introducing Predictive Planning

The first new product in our suite of Decision Intelligence tools, is Predictive Planning, a new AI-powered solution that transforms space planning from reactive to predictive.

Predictive Planning combines your existing occupancy data with modeled benchmarks to help you:

• Understand true supply: Identify where and when your workplace will break first, the point where key spaces can no longer support demand, powered by the industry’s largest spatial dataset, trained on over 200M sq. ft. of real workplace behavior.
• Forecast demand: Model how headcount changes, hybrid attendance, or growth plans will impact future space needs.
• Run instant scenarios: Compare “what if” situations like lease exits, restacks, headcount changes, or expansions, and see their financial and experiential impact in minutes, not months.
• Quantify ROI: Get CFO-ready reports showing cost savings, payback timelines, and opportunity trade-offs.

When connected to your Occupancy Intelligence foundation, it delivers the highest-fidelity forecasts, because it learns from how people actually use your spaces: the flow between rooms, preferred collaboration zones, and true peak usage patterns.

For sites without sensors, Wi-Fi, or badge data, Predictive Planning uses industry benchmarks and modeled patterns built from VergeSense’s dataset of over 200 million square feet of real-world workplace intelligence. 

The Impact: Clarity, Confidence, and Control

For workplace, real estate, and operations leaders, the biggest difference is no longer just knowing what’s happening, it's being able to act with confidence on what comes next. Predictive Planning gives teams a shared, living view of their workplace future that’s grounded in data, not assumptions. In practice, that means fewer last-minute pivots, stronger business cases Finance can trust, and faster planning cycles that happen in hours instead of months.

At a strategic level, Predictive Planning helps organizations move from reacting to change to anticipating it, creating a workplace strategy that evolves as fast as the people inside it.

Conclusion

The workplace has changed and so must the way we plan it. Occupancy data helped us understand what is. Now, with Decision Intelligence, we can plan for what will be.

→ See Predictive Planning in action. Schedule a demo here