Physics-informed autonomy for the built environment, starting with building controls.
PassiveLogic
venture active confidence: Medium status: Draft updated 2026-07-14
Summary
PassiveLogic is a Salt Lake City company building a generalized-autonomy platform that began with autonomous buildings. The impact case is strongest in commercial buildings, campuses, industrial facilities, and energy retrofits where outdated building-management systems waste energy and labor.
Impact
The impact case is strongest in commercial buildings, campuses, industrial facilities, and energy retrofits where outdated building-management systems waste energy and labor. PassiveLogic says buildings account for roughly 40% of global energy resources and claims pilot projects show around 30% energy savings from better control.
Those claims need independent verification, but the problem is real: building controls are often brittle, custom, and expensive to maintain. If PassiveLogic can make high-quality control systems easier to deploy, the climate and operations upside could be significant.
What They Are Building
PassiveLogic is building a platform for designing, deploying, operating, and maintaining autonomous systems. Public products and components include the Hive hardware platform, Sense sensors, Hive Mini, Cells, Quantum digital twins, Autonomy Studio, Blueprint, Creator, Portfolio, and Live.
The company describes its approach as edge-based and physics-informed. Rather than treating building automation as cloud analytics layered onto existing controls, PassiveLogic says its system makes real-time decisions locally using a digital twin as the source of truth.
What They Need Now
Likely needs include embedded systems engineers, controls engineers, building-automation experts, mechanical engineers, applied AI engineers, digital-twin modelers, installers, technical product managers, and partnerships with contractors or ESCOs that can carry the system into real projects.
For talent matching, PassiveLogic fits builders who want AI and hardware work with climate relevance, but who are comfortable with field deployment, building trades, and long sales cycles.
Who Could Help
Useful helpers include building-automation contractors, energy-efficiency program operators, utility incentive experts, commercial-real-estate owners, commissioning specialists, HVAC controls veterans, standards people, and public-sector buyers with facility portfolios.
Business-service helpers could add value if they understand hardware scale-up, channel partnerships, warranty risk, and customer proof in the built environment.
Utah Context
PassiveLogic is headquartered in Salt Lake City, with additional offices in Amsterdam and New Delhi. It belongs in Utah's climate-and-physical-AI cluster alongside geothermal, storage, grid, and hard-tech companies.
The company also illustrates a recurring Utah pattern: software talent applied to operational systems rather than only SaaS dashboards.
Evidence
Open Questions
- Which pilot energy-savings results have public measurement and verification?
- How many buildings are live with PassiveLogic systems, and in what customer categories?
- How much of the business is hardware revenue, software revenue, installation, services, or channel sales?