Samoza Research builds operating systems for the physical world. We give space a computational identity — so corridors, campuses, and cities can be governed, reconfigured, and reasoned about by program.
Every building, corridor, and sidewalk is full of smart devices — yet the space between them has no computational existence. We're changing that.
We extend the software-defined paradigm — proven in networking and storage — across the digital-physical boundary. Physical environments become artifacts of code, not concrete.
Unlike IoT, Samoza gives every square foot a computational identity — whether or not a sensor occupies it. Devices participate in space; they don't define it.
Reconfigure a corridor for rush hour. Overlay emergency routing on a campus. Deploy agentic intelligence to a flood zone. No crews, no cones — just code.
Samoza OS gives physical space a computational identity. Every square foot becomes addressable, programmable, and governable — so what a space does is an artifact of software, not structure.
Samoza OS turns any physical environment into a programmable substrate. Here's how that changes industries.
Today's factory floors are mazes of fixed zones and hardcoded safety perimeters. Samoza gives every square meter a programmable identity — so the floor reconfigures for new product lines, shift changes, and safety incidents through code, not construction. Robots, AGVs, and humans negotiate shared space through spatial governance, not collision avoidance hacks.
A coffee shop, a clinic, a co-working space — each is a small physical world with zones, flows, and rules. Samoza gives small businesses an agentic spatial OS: an AI that understands your floor plan, manages queues, adjusts lighting zones, governs delivery robot access, and reconfigures the space for events — all from a single programmable model of your place.
What if the game world and the physical world shared the same operating system? Samoza turns real rooms, parks, and arenas into programmable game boards. Spatial games with real physics: capture-the-zone, territory defense, AR treasure hunts — where the rules, boundaries, and power-ups are programmable regions that respond to how you actually move through space.
A refinery is millions of square feet of hazard zones, exclusion perimeters, and access tiers that change with every maintenance window and incident. Samoza replaces static safety maps with programmable spatial governance: hazard zones expand and contract in real time, worker clearance is enforced per-zone, and agentic AI monitors spatial anomalies across the entire site model.
Peak season hits and your warehouse layout is wrong. With Samoza, the floor is software: picking zones expand, staging areas shift, robot corridors reroute — all through spatial reconfiguration. No tape on the floor, no weekend rebuilds. Human pickers, autonomous robots, and forklifts share governed space with real-time right-of-way enforcement.
Construction sites are the most dynamic physical spaces on Earth — zones change daily, heavy equipment shares space with workers, and safety perimeters are drawn in dirt. Samoza gives the site a living spatial model: crane exclusion zones follow the boom in real time, delivery staging areas activate on schedule, and every worker's spatial authority is programmatically enforced.
An ER surge, an infection outbreak, a VIP visit — each demands the hospital to instantly reorganize its spaces. Samoza turns hallways, wards, and ORs into programmable regions: isolation zones deploy through software, robot delivery corridors adapt to real-time foot traffic, and wayfinding reconfigures when a wing goes into lockdown. The building's behavior changes; its walls don't have to.
An airport tarmac is a high-stakes spatial coordination problem: aircraft, tugs, fuel trucks, baggage carts, and ground crew all contest the same stretches of pavement on tight schedules. Samoza governs the apron as a programmable spatial model — stand assignments, push-back corridors, and de-icing zones reconfigure per flight schedule, with agentic AI arbitrating right-of-way in real time.
A thousand-acre farm is a spatial operating system waiting to happen. Samoza maps fields at fine resolution: irrigation zones, pesticide exclusion perimeters, and harvest corridors become programmable regions. Autonomous tractors, drones, and ground sensors all participate in a single spatial model — the field becomes a governed digital entity that adapts to weather, soil data, and crop stage by the hour.
When disaster strikes, responders arrive to a space with no shared model — no common map of who controls what, where it's safe, what's been searched. Samoza deploys a spatial OS over the crisis zone in minutes: search grids become governed regions, exclusion perimeters enforce themselves, drone surveillance feeds into the shared spatial model, and every responder's authority is scoped to their assigned zones.
Samoza Research is a deep-tech startup pioneering spatial operating systems — the foundational software layer that gives physical space a computational identity.
Our work extends the software-defined paradigm from networks and storage into the physical world, enabling environments to be governed, reconfigured, and reasoned about entirely through program.
We are building Samoza OS: a spatial operating system designed to resolve the core tension of programmable fidelity at scale — representing the physical world faithfully enough for programs to be meaningful, yet tractably enough to maintain coherent control as the world grows.
// The insight
IoT automates devices.
Samoza programs space.
// Remove a device — the space persists.
// Space has computational identity.
We're looking for research partners, early adopters, and investors who share our vision of programmable physical spaces.