We’re excited to announce a partnership with VergeSense, a workplace intelligence company that helps enterprises understand how spaces are used and plan more effectively for future needs. Together, we are connecting Spacewell’s operational view of the portfolio with VergeSense’s predictive planning capabilities, giving real estate, workplace and finance teams a faster, more defensible path from workplace data to better-informed decisions.
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.
The problem this solves
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 A workplace study runs three to six months and costs anywhere from $250K to $1.5M or more, and it arrives already out of date because conditions changed while the study ran.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.
What each platform brings
The partnership pairs two capabilities that each remove guesswork from their half of the workplace planning process:
- Start from the data you already own, not a new collection project. Spacewell holds the system of record for the portfolio and the employee experience layer where people meet space every day. Every one of those interactions is a signal: what gets booked and what gets skipped, how teams move through a floor over a quarter, where service requests cluster. For many organizations that data is already structured, current, and live, so there is no new collection project to fund and no hardware to install before you can begin.
- Plan around your employees’ actual behavioral patterns, not assumptions. VergeSense Predictive Planning is powered by a proprietary Large Spatial Model that forecasts how people will use a space across thousands of plausible workdays, surfacing capacity, the effect of a hybrid policy change, and the right mix of space types before anyone moves.
- Test the offices you’re considering, not just the ones you run. The behavioral profile of a current portfolio can test a candidate space before a lease is signed, showing how that floor plate would land for your people instead of relying on a generic fit.
- Make defensible decisions, faster. Hours rather than months to a plan with savings, payback, and ROI attached, grounded in operational context on the Spacewell side and observed behavior on the VergeSense side, so teams can answer both “how is this space really working?” and “what will it need next?”
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.
The power behind each platform
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 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.
Shaping the future of workplace decision-making
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.
Talk to a specialist
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.
