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Sektor and OpenSpace link up to deliver ROI in less than four months

Justin Stanton

Editor, DC+

2 September 2025

Sektor and OpenSpace have linked up to deliver the latter’s reality capture technology to customers. And Sektor’s approach to easing technology adoption means its clients could see a return on their investment in three to four months.

OpenSpace reality capture tech in action — OpenSpace reality capture technology in action

Speaking exclusively to DC+, OpenSpace CEO Jeevan Kalanithi said: “I believe in working with best-in-class partners like Sektor that can look holistically at a construction company, including their technology stack, their workflows, their challenges, and their opportunities, and understand how best to implement a solution like OpenSpace.

“For our customers, Sektor is reducing their risk, accelerating their business value, and helping them gain more value because of Sektor’s expertise in this arena.”

“Sektor can look holistically at a construction company’s technology stack, workflows, challenges, and opportunities, and understand how best to implement OpenSpace.”

Jeevan Kalanithi

Sektor CEO Angelos Nicolaou said: “Sektor is vendor-agnostic; the reason we choose certain partnerships is because they’re popular with most of our clients – it’s beneficial to both of us to have a closer relationship so that our clients can benefit. OpenSpace can generate a lot of value for clients, and we want to make sure that clients realise the full value. We’ve been working with OpenSpace for four years and we’ve seen massive benefits for our customers, especially those that have high adoption levels.

“Any type of construction or property business could and should benefit from our partnership. We’re seeing ROI in just 90 days. That comes through when most of your company is using the basic functionality of the tool and when it is embedded in at least one or two key procedures.”

Successful technology adoption

Successful adoption of the technology – and the processes that go with it – is key to generating such swift ROI, the two said. “Getting technology adopted is a slow, very manual process. You’ve got to map out the tech stack, learn the technology, learn and understand the processes, and spend a long time on change management,” Nicolaou said.

“Sektor has automated this whole process: mapping the tech stack and understanding the processes linking it with the technology. So, the minute we start working with a client, as soon as we ingest and understand their processes, we’ll automatically find which processes can benefit from OpenSpace. Thus, the time to maximise your return on investment becomes very, very short.”

“What wastes money is not using a tool. That’s typically the biggest problem that we resolve – we get everyone to use a tool in a short period of time. First, you get everyone to use it. Second, you make sure that they use it in full.”

Angelos Nicolaou

He emphasised: “What wastes money is not using a tool. That's typically the biggest problem that we resolve – we get everyone to use a tool in a short period of time. First, you get everyone to use it. Second, you make sure that they use it in full.”

Kalanithi noted the risk of failing to transfer and retain technology knowledge and innovation across projects. “What often happens in this industry is one project innovates, gets incredible ROI, and then that knowledge is lost. It’s not shared across the company, it doesn't become a best practice that’s implemented as standard on the next project. There’s a huge opportunity to scale innovation, connect solutions together and supercharge technology investment that drives clear ROI.”

Nicolaou noted that Sektor “automatically documents everything, so there’s no fear of an expert leaving the business and taking the technology expertise with them”.

Earlier this year, Sektor signed a three-year enterprise agreement with Ferrovial to support the contractor’s global adoption of AI technology. Initially, the agreement focused on the rollout of OpenSpace.

Kalanithi revealed that OpenSpace will announce some “significant” product releases and integrations this month.

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