Density
Occupancy sensors and analytics that maximize the value of every square foot.
By Density · HQ San Francisco, US · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Workplace and real-estate teams that need accurate, anonymous occupancy data for offices, meeting rooms, phone booths and desks
- Companies right-sizing a portfolio or trying to lower real-estate cost per occupied square foot
- Organizations with strict employee-privacy constraints: radar sensors, no cameras, no PII
- Teams that want to query occupancy data inside an AI assistant they already use, via Density's MCP server
Ideal size: 100+ employees people · Workplace/facilities team with a real-estate data owner
Not for
- Buyers who want a pure-software tool with no physical hardware to install or maintain
- Retail, logistics or industrial sites measuring customer footfall or throughput rather than workplace occupancy
- Small offices with only a handful of rooms and little real-estate spend
- Teams looking for a bundled, in-app AI analytics suite rather than a connector into their own AI environment
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
1–2 weeks (self-install)
~14 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$180/yr
Starts at $30 · Per sensor unit, not per seat: software $2.50–$15 per unit/month; $8/unit/month for rooms and phone booths billed annually. Waffle sensor hardware $229 per unit.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
No seat tiers; priced per sensor unit
Add-on costs
- Waffle sensor hardware: $229 per unit, one-time
- Rooms & phone booths software: $8 per unit/month, billed annually
- Desks software: $2.50 per unit/month, billed annually
- All Spaces software: $15 per unit/month, billed monthly
Company & support
Who is behind Density, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, US
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPlan not stated
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsPlan not stated
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Support email [email protected] and the Density help center; a service level agreement and support policy are published. Live onboarding is offered for Density MCP. No phone or live-chat support is advertised.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Density sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Density
- Spendbase
- DoiT
- Zesty
- Torii
- Jeeves
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Density. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
Ships an official MCP server. Connects to Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT connectors and Cursor out of the box.
AI & MCP readiness
What Density ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Density MCP is a vendor-built connector that lets teams ask questions about occupancy and utilization data and generate charts inside an approved AI assistant. No in-app AI analytics suite, AI audit logging or AI pricing is described on the vendor pages reviewed.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
- AI pricing
- Not recorded
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Official MCP server
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Density pairs radar-based people-counting sensors (Waffle, Open Area, Entry) with the Atlas workplace analytics platform to measure how offices, meeting rooms, phone booths and desks are actually used. Sensors are anonymous by design, self-installable and priced per unit rather than per seat, so buyers can start small. Teams use the data to right-size real estate, plan occupancy and cut cost per square foot. A vendor-built MCP server brings Density data into ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini.
Frequently asked questions
How is Density priced?
Pricing is per sensor unit, not per seat. Waffle sensors are $229 each. Software runs $2.50 per unit/month for desks, $8 per unit/month for rooms and phone booths (billed annually), or $15 per unit/month for all spaces (billed monthly). Large volume orders are routed through [email protected].
Does Density use cameras or collect personal data?
No. Density's radar-based sensors cannot capture, store or interpret personally identifiable information, and the vendor states there are no cameras. Data is encrypted with TLS 1.2 in transit and AES-256 at rest, with OAuth SSO and 2FA available.
How long does installation and rollout take?
Density markets self-installable, powered sensors that need no ladders or batteries and stream data with under one second latency; the MCP connector is set up the day you install it. Allow roughly one to two weeks including hardware shipping and mounting.
Can we query Density data inside ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot?
Yes. Density MCP is a vendor-built connector that signs in with your Density account, syncs data locally and lets you ask questions and generate on-brand charts inside an AI environment you already use, including ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, Cursor and VS Code.
What support is included?
Density offers email support at [email protected] plus a self-serve help center, and publishes a service level agreement and support policy. Live onboarding is offered for Density MCP. Phone and live-chat support and stated response times are not advertised.
What security certifications does Density hold?
No SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO 42001 or CMMC certification is claimed on Density's public privacy and trust page. That page documents encryption in transit and at rest, OAuth single sign-on, 2FA through your SSO provider, third-party vulnerability testing and redundant cloud hosting.