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Transforming floors into the foundational data layer for the built environment.

The physical world is becoming more complex, more instrumented. Yet buildings still lack unified sensing infrastructure. We identified what others overlooked: floors are the one universal surface in every building. The ideal foundation for spatial intelligence.

The Insight

The answer was underfoot

True spatial intelligence requires a rare combination: accuracy, complete coverage, high resolution, privacy preservation, and scalable distribution. Existing solutions each excel in some areas, but no single approach delivered all five.

We found the missing link in an unexpected place: the one surface every building shares, that touches every occupant, spans every room, and flows through established supply chains at massive scale.

The floor.

Accuracy Coverage Resolution Privacy Distribution ALL FIVE One surface. Complete solution.
The Challenge

Fragmented spatial data

Understanding how people move through physical spaces has required cameras, beacons, and motion sensors, each with coverage gaps, privacy concerns, and integration complexity. Buildings generate vast amounts of spatial data, but it's siloed, inconsistent, and underutilized.

Our Approach

Intelligence underfoot

We embed thin, flexible sensor circuitry directly into commercial flooring underlayment. Continuous, high-resolution spatial data captured invisibly, anonymously, and at scale, transforming every floor into a sensing layer without cameras or privacy trade-offs.

Why Floors

The largest computable surface on Earth

We're transforming the largest surface area of the built world into a substrate for spatial intelligence.

Every floor, every building

Universal coverage

Floors exist in every building, every room, every space. No other surface offers complete, continuous coverage of human activity. We embed intelligence into the one layer that touches everything.

7-10 year cycle Natural replacement cycle

Built-in distribution

Commercial flooring refreshes every 7-10 years. Tens of billions of square feet installed annually through established manufacturer networks. We ride existing supply chains, not fight them.

EXISTING + NEW Retrofit and new construction

Reaches all buildings

Flooring is the only building material that routinely touches both existing and new construction. Every retrofit, every renovation, every new build is an opportunity to add intelligence.

The Future

Infrastructure for embodied AI

The next generation of AI needs more than text. It needs structured data about how the physical world actually behaves. We're building that layer.

Real behavior, not descriptions

Beyond text

Frontier AI models need more than language. They need rich, structured data about how humans actually move and behave in physical space. Floors capture what text cannot describe.

DATA Health care Retail Office Athletic Perf. Cross-domain intelligence

Unified spatial corpus

Healthcare facilities, retail floors, office buildings, athletic venues. Every domain contributes to the largest continuously updated corpus of physical-world behavioral data on Earth.

Surveillance Patterns Patterns, not identities

Privacy by physics

Pressure sensors detect movement patterns, not individuals. Population-level insights without facial recognition, without tracking, without surveillance. Privacy preserved by the physics of the sensor itself.

Validated by
$2.3M ARPA-E program funding to validate building performance impact
35% HVAC energy reduction verified through independent testing
90% Thermal comfort rating maintained while reducing energy consumption
Manufacturing Partners

Integrated with and compatible with product lines from the world's leading commercial flooring manufacturers, working alongside their go-to-market teams.

Tarkett Mannington
Our Vision

Building the spatial data layer

We're not building a point solution. We're creating foundational infrastructure for the built environment.

01

Building Intelligence

Deploy sensors to solve immediate challenges: occupancy-driven HVAC, space utilization, and operational efficiency for facility managers and building operators.

02

Data Platform

Leverage accumulated spatial data for broader stakeholders: insurers modeling risk, retailers understanding behavior, logistics operators optimizing flow.

03

Spatial Primitive

Establish public APIs and position the sensing network as universal infrastructure, a data layer that developers and enterprises build upon.