{"id":35839,"date":"2026-07-09T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/from-dark-data-to-building-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:48:59","slug":"from-dark-data-to-building-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/from-dark-data-to-building-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dark Data to Building Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode, I talk with <strong>Mark Sorsa-Leslie<\/strong>, founder and CEO of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/auttaa.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">Auttaa AI<\/a>, whose team just won first place in Luotea\u2019s inaugural hackathon in Helsinki for turning property maintenance from reactive firefighting into proactive forecasting with AI. Mark is a chartered surveyor with 30 years of real estate data experience, previously the founder of the UK sensor company Beringar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We discuss why so much building data stays dark and siloed, from outdated networking technology to the shortage of people who understand both engineering and property. Mark explains how Auttaa bridges real-time building data with large language models, using what he calls an \u201cinfluence graph\u201d to surface correlations and causation across previously disconnected systems, such as linking occupancy patterns to CO2 readings to diagnose ventilation problems in minutes rather than days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A central theme is Mark\u2019s challenge to the assumption that AI requires perfectly clean data to deliver value. He describes Auttaa\u2019s \u201cmessy front end\u201d approach, an agentic pipeline that first characterizes and loads data, then refines it later, flipping the traditional extract-transform-load model to extract-load-transform. We also cover how construction projects could better serve future operations and maintenance needs, particularly by building more comprehensive, asset-complete BIM models at handover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark shares the challenges of being an early-stage startup, from earning customer trust to proving the technology works, as demonstrated during the 48-hour hackathon. He closes with his vision for Auttaa as a software-only, globally applicable layer for understanding buildings and his take on the shifting proptech funding landscape in the Nordics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to hear how Mark thinks AI can move real estate from teams manually modeling data to trusting large language models, guided by experts, to characterize building systems with a high degree of accuracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connect with Mark at auttaa.ai or by email at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/from-dark-data-to-building-intelligence\/javascript:;\" data-enc-email=\"znex[at]nhggnn.nv\" class=\"mail-link\" data-wpel-link=\"ignore\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"eeb-347548-321200\"\/><noscript>*protected email*<\/noscript><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-listen-to-the-interview-and-subscribe-wherever-you-get-your-podcasts\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen to the interview and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts<\/h2>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/aecbusiness\/aec-business.s3.amazonaws.com\/Mark-Sorsa-Leslie-interview.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw(&#039;https:\/\/aec-business.com\/?powerpress_pinw=4018581-podcast&#039;);\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/aecbusiness\/aec-business.s3.amazonaws.com\/Mark-Sorsa-Leslie-interview.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" download=\"Mark-Sorsa-Leslie-interview.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <\/p>\n<p><!--powerpress_player--><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/aec-business.com\/from-dark-data-to-building-intelligence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In this episode, I talk with Mark Sorsa-Leslie, founder and CEO of Auttaa AI, whose team just won first &#8230; <a title=\"From Dark Data to Building Intelligence\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/from-dark-data-to-building-intelligence\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about From Dark Data to Building Intelligence\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1062,1066],"tags":[1303],"class_list":["post-35839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aec-business","category-all-posts","tag-artificial-intelligence","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}