Auki's paid pilots now represent over 6,500 retail locations

Evidence notes
- • Auki's paid pilots now include over 6,500 retail locations across multiple enterprise chains.
- • Each pilot location pays over $10,000 to trial the Cactus system.
- • Not all locations are active, as large chains often pilot in 3–30 stores.
Company context
Auki Labs is a spatial computing and decentralized perception infrastructure startup focused on enabling machines and AI to understand and navigate the physical world. It is developing the decentralized "posemesh" protocol and related spatial AI technologies to create interoperable 3D maps, positioning systems, and shared environmental understanding for robots, XR/AR devices, and other connected systems.