Rethinking Smart Building Intelligence with Gary Chance, CEO of Nantum AI

Nov 12

In this episode of The Climate Gap: Quick Cuts, Ben sits down with Gary Chance, CEO of Nantum AI, to explore how AI and human operators can work together to transform building data into measurable, portfolio-wide outcomes.

Every year, new technologies promise to transform real estate. Every year, most of them fail to stick. Gary explains why adoption—not technology—is the hardest part of innovation and how operators can move from awareness to action.

During the conversation, they dig into:

From awareness to action. How large action models and human-AI collaboration will shape the next five years of building performance.
The 80/20 rule of impact. Why a few interventions deliver most of the results, and how to measure what’s left on the table.
Transparency drives trust. How data visibility and proof of results accelerate collaboration between sustainability, asset, and operations teams.
AI as a companion. Why operators who work alongside AI gain the edge—and why automation is about partnership, not replacement.
Breaking platform paralysis. How to connect AI to a business case that proves ROI and scales across portfolios.

Also available on Spotify here.