AiFi Debuts eddie: First API for the Physical World to Transform Spaces into Intelligent, Responsive Environments

Acting as the intelligence layer for agentic AI, eddie transforms spatial data into live, actionable workflows that redefine retail, grocery, stadiums, and more

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AiFi, a global leader in spatial intelligence, today announced the launch of eddie, the Event Driven Data Interpretation Engine. eddie is the first API designed to connect AI agents to the physical world by transforming complex spatial data into agentic business workflows. Powering the next generation of enterprise AI capabilities, eddie fundamentally changes how brick-and-mortar businesses operate by pushing them beyond labor intensive analysis towards real-time actionable understanding of their interactive space.

By processing petabytes of enriched data from AiFi's spatial platform, eddie provides real-time understanding of how people and products interact in an entire space. Unlike generative AI systems that create static content, eddie observes real-time consumer behaviors, aggregates and interprets that data to trigger purposeful workflows and provides enriched data to downstream AI agents. Rather than attempting a pixel-perfect digital clone, eddie's core strength lies in its ability to focus on the moments of interest that matter and derive actionable insights. For the first time, companies can analyze this data across their entire estate of physical locations simultaneously and review it by enabling natural language access to insights that are both precise and practical. Already live in major U.S. grocery chains, eddie helps reduce inventory loss, optimize labor allocation, and improve customer experiences, while also helping retailers to identify trends, scale best practices, and unlock new data-driven strategies across their entire physical footprint. Retail is just the beginning.

"With eddie, we are making the physical world accessible to AI agents in real-time. Eddie turns your physical space into data and allows you to query it. Having an API to the physical world enables businesses to build entirely new processes based on real-time physical insights," said João Diogo Falcão, CEO of AiFi. "Eddie doesn't simply describe what happened; it acts in the moment and helps businesses prevent loss and optimize operations and innovate on their core business models. It's about turning intelligence into a force for immediate, tangible value."

Proven capabilities include:

• Frictionless checkout: Builds a live, itemized digital receipt as shoppers pick up, replace, or keep items, making checkout as simple as leaving the store.
• Customer experience insights: Detects friction points in-store journeys and helps staff improve service.
• Shrink and loss prevention: Detects when items are picked up but not scanned, flagging operators in real time or finalizing payment automatically through a "lossless" checkout model.
• Labor efficiency: Enables retailers to reallocate or reduce headcount otherwise tied up in monitoring SCO or checkout lines.
• Out-of-stock alerts: Recognizes empty shelf space or low stock and signals staff before sales are lost.
• Planogram vs. "realogram" compliance: Ensures shelves match the intended layout in real time, so grocers can catch execution errors, restock faster, and maximize the sales impact of every display.
• Merchandising and attribution analytics: Correlates exposure to ads or displays with what shoppers ultimately purchase, delivering online
• Full ecommerce-like customer conversion funnels for brick and mortar

Beyond its proven applications in frictionless checkout, loss prevention, and operational automation, eddie's architecture is designed for adaptability across a wide range of industries where people and objects interact. This core ability to transform real-time data into new business processes unlocks new possibilities in:

• Apparel & Specialty Retail: Creating new processes for customer engagement based on in-store behavior and product interaction.
• Warehouses & Logistics: Implementing real-time, data-driven workflows to streamline inventory movement and flag anomalies.
• Airports & Travel Hubs: Developing new business processes for passenger management and security based on real-time flow analysis.
• Hospitality & QSR: Supporting new operational models for faster service and more personalized customer engagement.

Eddie represents a paradigm shift, transforming physical spaces from passive locations into active, responsive, and intelligent environments. This ability to apply autonomous, agentic workflows across the physical world elevates the potential for innovation far beyond the usual use cases of traditional analytics.

AiFi will showcase a demonstration of eddie at Groceryshop in Las Vegas on September 30, 2025.

About AiFi
AiFi is the global leader in spatial intelligence, powering over 200 autonomous deployments. Its platform processes more than 90 petabytes of real-world data annually and, with the introduction of eddie, turns that spatial data into real-time actions that reduce shrink, optimize operations, and enhance customer experiences. Supported by partnerships with Microsoft, HP, and Qualcomm, AiFi has raised over $80 million from investors. To learn more, visit aifi.com.

SOURCE AiFi/BAM Communications