Together, VergeSense and Spacewell are setting out to connect the workplace data enterprises already run their buildings on with Predictive Planning, so space decisions can be made in hours, on a company's own evidence, and revisited whenever the workplace changes.
We're excited to announce a partnership with Spacewell, the integrated workplace management and workplace experience platform that enterprises use to run their buildings, from floor plans, space hierarchy, and allocations through to booking, visitor flows, service requests, and energy performance. Together, we are setting out to connect the operational picture of how a portfolio works today with a forecast of what it will need next, giving real estate, workplace, and finance teams a faster, more defensible path from the data they already own to the decision in front of them.
The partnership charts a shared direction of travel: a future where the workplace data already live in Spacewell flows into VergeSense Predictive Planning, so any office can be planned continuously on its own evidence, in the systems teams already run. Both halves of that picture exist in the market today. The connection between them is what's new.
Enterprises have never generated more data about how their workplace is used, yet space decisions are still made much the way they always were: on headcount projections, desk ratios, and a view formed before anyone tests it. A lease comes up for renewal in nine months. Two floors look underused, but nobody can say by how much, or which teams would feel it if they went. The same pattern plays out on consolidations, refits, and every hybrid policy revision.
The evidence that would settle those questions already exists. Floor plans and space allocations, room bookings, badge data, sensor data, WiFi, video conferencing, service requests, employee experience signals. Almost none of it reaches the decision, because it sits in separate tools, each built to record what happened rather than to forecast what is needed next.
So the default is to outsource the question. A workplace study runs three to six months and costs anywhere from $250K to $1.5M or more, and it arrives already out of date because conditions changed while the study ran. The moment headcount, policy, or attendance shifts, the answer is wrong again and the cycle restarts from zero. Much of that spend goes toward reconstructing data the customer already generates every day, in systems the customer already pays for.
The partnership pairs two capabilities that each remove guesswork from their half of the workplace planning process:
The shared goal is a decision support workflow that helps enterprise teams move from "we think this floor isn't working" to "here is a behaviorally grounded plan we can take to the executive team," in a fraction of the time and cost of the traditional consulting cycle.
At the core of VergeSense's contribution is the Large Spatial Model, the industry's largest behavioral benchmark of how enterprise workplaces are actually used, trained on more than eight years of real-world workplace behavior across 250+ million square feet. Customers using VergeSense Predictive Planning have applied the model to right-size portfolios, redesign offices, and avoid millions in unnecessary real estate spend, including $1.5M per floor expansion costs avoided for a retailer’s global corporate real estate team.
Spacewell brings the other half of the equation: the operational foundation the workplace actually runs on. Enterprise portfolios with hundreds of buildings run on Spacewell today, and the platform connects workplace, real estate, facility, maintenance, and energy information around the same underlying portfolio and space data. That makes it not only a system of record but the most current picture of how a portfolio operates, which is exactly the input a forecast needs. Both companies share two commitments here: that data stays secure and governed, handled under the privacy standards European enterprises rightly insist on, and that AI is here to make real estate, workplace, and facility teams faster and better informed, not to make their judgment redundant.
What previously required a three-to-six-month study, delivered as a PDF that was stale on arrival, can start from data an organization already has, and can be revisited whenever the workplace changes.
Together, the two platforms set out to close a long-standing gap in workplace decision-making: the distance between the data that shows how a space is really being used and the plan that decides what happens to it next.
The VergeSense and Spacewell partnership reflects a broader shift in how enterprises are approaching workplace decisions: away from one-off consulting engagements and static benchmarks, and toward connected systems that let teams make faster, more defensible calls on the spaces their people will actually use.
Each of us has taken the guesswork out of one half of this problem. Spacewell runs the workplace and holds the record of how it operates. VergeSense turns behavior into a forecast of what a space will need. As organizations navigate portfolio consolidation, hybrid work evolution, and rising pressure to justify real estate spend, the interesting work ahead is the connection between the two.
If any of this describes your own portfolio, we're ready to talk. For most teams it starts with a decision they're already facing, and with getting more from the data they already have.