Every Building Is a Balance Sheet: Spatial Memory for Real-World Assets — Jordi Spranger, Spranic

Two scans of the same kitchen reveal that three chairs have moved. The change can be queried against the captured scene, with a reference back to the observation. Jordi Spranger demonstrates the idea behind Spranic's spatial memory: turn a walk through a building into a record of its objects, relationships and changes over time. A conference hall scan provides a second example. Instead of leaving the evidence scattered across photographs and PDFs, the system stores a semantic representation in a graph that can connect observations from repeat visits. Questions such as where to find a radiator or a drinking glass become queries against that representation. Spranger frames the problem around the gap between frequently updated financial records and infrequently updated knowledge of the buildings underneath them. He explains how an off the shelf sensor captures a space, how repeat walks align along a timeline and how object changes can feed downstream workflows. Maintenance, interior design, robotics and insurance are proposed uses of the same underlying asset record. For insurance, he sketches an initial inspection and renewal comparison that could inform a more specific policy. These are proposed applications, rather than demonstrated insurer deployments or measured premium reductions. The external building statistics discussed supply market context, rather than results from Spranic's product. The practical demonstration is narrower and concrete: preserve scene observations, compare visits and make spatial evidence available to the people and systems that need it. Speaker info: - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordispranger/ - https://spranic.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 - Jordi Spranger and the spatial memory project 1:09 - Financial records outpace building observations 3:00 - Making a building queryable 4:47 - What changed, when and who needs to know 5:53 - Kitchen scans, spatial questions and moved chairs 7:24 - Proposed downstream uses and insurance workflows