At the Heart of the Workspace Decision

The Encounter

Waitack is, above all, the encounter of experts who spent decades mastering their respective disciplines — and who decided to join forces to redefine the way real estate decisions are made.

The Commando Operation

The story begins within the R&D department of CDB, a French space planning firm with two decades of operational know-how. There, an unusual commando team came together — a mathematician, an architect, an engineer, and a sociologist — brought together by a single, founding challenge: generating a complete, realistic, and compliant fit-out plan in five seconds. Not a sketch. Not an approximation. A precise, buildable plan — no matter how complex the asset.

Why Five Seconds?

Because that's how long a user is willing to wait at each iteration. A decision-maker can immediately test, refine, and compare scenarios, rather than waiting days for a single imperfect proposal. A few seconds that transform space planning: from a deliverable, it becomes a conversation.

2021 — Waitack Takes Shape

In 2021, the company Waitack was created, driven by the complementary expertise of its co-founders:

• Michel Ciucci and Rémi Mangin — both founders of CDB. They shaped the profession of space planning in France.
• Christophe Costantini — a seasoned programmer whose mastery of architectural programming methodology shaped the platform's design intelligence.
• Cyril Hadji-Thomas — has led companies focused on software and artificial intelligence for 25 years; an engineer, a graduate of Centrale Paris and AgroParisTech, he specializes in applied mathematics and artificial intelligence.

Around them, a multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, BIM engineers, architects, and sociologists transformed years of field expertise into algorithms — encoding decades of space planning intuition into a platform capable of reasoning about buildings the way the best practitioners do, at the speed of the machine.

2024 — Opening the Platform on Subscription

After several years of intensive R&D, 2024 marked a turning point: we opened the platform to direct use by end users, transforming Waitack from an internal accelerator into a platform serving the entire market.

Above All: A Decision-Support Platform

We deliberately built Waitack as a decision-support platform — not as a simple design tool. Because we are convinced that today's real estate challenges can no longer be addressed in silos. Complexity must be mastered simultaneously across four dimensions:

• Human — designing spaces that match the way teams actually work.
• Environmental — meeting sustainability commitments with measurable rigor.
• Operational — aligning buildings with the realities of their uses.
• Financial — turning every square meter into a quantified, defensible decision.

The Results Speak for Themselves

Waitack has digitized nearly 5 million square meters of building digital twins, and our users generate several million square meters of space planning every month. Local authorities, developers, asset managers, brokers, architects, workplace consultants, general contractors, and end- user companies rely on Waitack in more than ten countries to compare scenarios, assess building performance, and make better decisions in real time.

A Platform That Defines Its Category

What began as a wager among experts has become a platform that defines its own category. We set ourselves the mission of compressing days of work into seconds — and we did it.