What Foobot does

Foobot is the commercial brand of Energywise SAS, a privately held French company headquartered at 122 rue Amelot, Paris. It sells an AI-driven HVAC optimization platform to enterprise commercial real estate owners and facility operators across Europe, with a stated customer set that includes Dassault, Credit Agricole, L'Oreal, Vinci Facilities, NCC, Colliers, Valeo, Fonds Belval, and Distech. The company's core product is an AI HVAC Control service built on Deep Reinforcement Learning agents that are trained in calibrated digital twins (using OpenStudio and EnergyPlus) and deployed to autonomously manage heating, ventilation, and cooling 24/7 without requiring hardware renovations; a complementary AI Optimal Start product handles equipment warm-up scheduling. Supporting offerings include BMS Consulting (technical advisors who tune existing building management systems), a web-based Customer Portal (v4.1.0) for KPI monitoring, and a documented API for BMS data access.

The underlying technology stack combines several proprietary components: SAB AI Agents trained via reinforcement learning, autoregressive control policies that model conditional dependencies between HVAC actions, Physics-informed Neural Networks for building thermal modeling, and an Off-Policy Evaluation framework that allows new RL policies to be estimated from historical data before deployment. The company has open-sourced HOPES, a library for off-policy evaluation in HVAC control. Revenue is generated through a mix of recurring AI control subscriptions and project-based BMS consulting, sold via a direct enterprise field-sales motion targeting AM/PM/Real Estate departments. Documented outcomes include a 54% HVAC spending reduction in a 15,000 m² Northern European deployment over nine months, 98% thermostat set-point compliance, and 100% CO2 compliance below 900 ppm. Note: firmographic metadata lists Foobot as founded 2022 in San Francisco with 11–50 employees, while legal/website sources indicate Paris domicile under Energywise SAS — the description above is grounded in the company's own website and primary legal records.

Name

Foobot

Legal name

Energywise SAS

Website

https://foobot.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Foobot (Energywise SAS) sells AI HVAC optimization and BMS consulting to European commercial real estate owners, using Deep Reinforcement Learning agents trained in calibrated digital twins to autonomously cut HVAC spending without hardware renovations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Building HVAC Optimization Software

NAICS

Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512)

SIC

Auto Controls For Regulating Residential & Comml Environments (3822)

akta.pro primary industry

HVAC Controls & Optimization (Smart Thermostats, VAV, Chillers/Boilers Controls) (BPABAGAB)

Keywords

• AI HVAC control
• Building management consulting
• Smart building optimization
• Energy efficiency software
• Reinforcement learning HVAC

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. AI HVAC Control Services: Ongoing AI-based HVAC control optimization services for commercial buildings, providing energy savings and comfort optimization without requiring hardware renovations.
2. BMS Consulting: Technical advisory services for Building Management System reliability and optimization.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Foobot (a brand of Energywise SAS) sells AI-driven HVAC control optimization services for commercial buildings, using Deep Reinforcement Learning agents trained on calibrated digital twins to autonomously reduce heating, ventilation, and air conditioning energy use without hardware renovations. The offering is complemented by an AI Optimal Start service for HVAC scheduling and BMS (Building Management System) consulting for technical advisory, with monitoring delivered through a customer web portal.

Product overview

Foobot, a brand of Energywise SAS, offers an AI-powered building management optimization platform. The core offering consists of AI HVAC Control and AI Optimal Start services that use Deep Reinforcement Learning to autonomously optimize building HVAC systems, complemented by BMS Consulting for technical advisory. The platform includes a Customer Portal for monitoring and an open-source tool called HOPES for off-policy evaluation. The company serves commercial and real estate portfolios across Europe with documented energy savings of up to 54%.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI HVAC Control AI-driven HVAC control service that autonomously optimizes heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in commercial buildings using Deep Reinforcement Learning agents, targeting AM/PM/Real Estate departments and facilities managers seeking energy and cost reductions.
• AI Optimal Start Intelligent optimal start control for HVAC equipment that determines the optimal time to activate heating/cooling systems based on building thermal dynamics and occupancy schedules, intended for commercial building operators.
• BMS Consulting Technical advisory services for Building Management System reliability and optimization, where consultants help ensure buildings are properly configured and maintained, complementing AI control deployments for enterprise real estate portfolios.

Quantifiable outcome

• 54% HVAC spending reduction
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• OpenStudiocoreTechnology or IntegrationUses OpenStudio and EnergyPlus open-source software to create calibrated building digital twins for training AI agents.
• airboxlab/hopescoreTechnology or IntegrationOpen-sourced HVAC optimisation with Off Policy Evaluation and Selection library, providing tools for off-policy evaluation in reinforcement learning for HVAC control.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• BrainBox AI: Canadian AI startup offering deep-learning HVAC optimization for commercial buildings; competes head-to-head with Foobot in the same AI-control-over-existing-BMS category, targeting commercial real estate owners with similar DRL-based autonomous control.
• Switch Automation: AI-driven smart building platform focused on commercial real estate performance optimization; comparable SaaS business model targeting facility and portfolio managers with continuous HVAC/energy optimization.
• GridPoint: Smart building energy management platform combining submetering, IoT, and analytics to optimize HVAC and reduce operating costs in commercial real estate; similar enterprise customers and SaaS-plus-services model.
• BuildingIQ: Cloud-based building energy management SaaS for commercial portfolios; directly comparable to Foobot as an AI-driven HVAC optimization software layer that integrates with existing BMS to deliver energy and comfort outcomes.
• Verdigris Technologies: AI-based building energy and asset management company deploying sensors and analytics to optimize HVAC and electrical loads in commercial facilities; comparable AI-control value proposition for facility operators.
• 75F: IoT and AI-powered building controls company offering smart HVAC and zoning optimization for commercial buildings; highly comparable offering, target market, and subscription-based delivery model.

Broad incumbents

• Siemens Building X / Siemens Smart Infrastructure: Siemens's open, AI-enabled building operations platform with digital twin and energy optimization capabilities; competes with Foobot at the AI-control-layer category inside its broader BMS and building automation stack.
• Honeywell Forge: Honeywell's enterprise performance management suite for buildings, including AI-driven energy optimization; broad incumbent overlapping with Foobot's AI HVAC control offering as part of a much larger building technologies portfolio.
• Johnson Controls OpenBlue: Johnson Controls's digital building platform integrating AI optimization for HVAC and energy across enterprise portfolios; broad incumbent whose AI features directly overlap Foobot's autonomous HVAC optimization use cases.

Regional players

• Enerbrain: Europe-based (Italy) AI software platform that optimizes HVAC and energy use in commercial buildings without hardware replacements; direct product overlap with Foobot in concept and partially competitive in the European market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/energywise2

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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