SPAI
SPAI is Earthpulse's geo-analytics platform. It turns satellite and Earth Observation data into ready-to-use risk indicators — maps, dashboards, alerts and API feeds — for teams running water, energy, transport and infrastructure assets, without any in-house GIS expertise.
What is SPAI?
SPAI — Satellite Processing by Artificial Intelligence — is the geo-analytics platform built by Earthpulse, a Barcelona company. It brings Earth Observation data, AI models and geospatial analytics together in a single environment and automates the satellite processing work that has traditionally been slow and reserved for specialists. The claim on the product page is blunt: an organisation gets structured, evidence-backed intelligence without keeping geospatial expertise in-house.
The platform is the engine; what customers actually buy are called Pulses. A Pulse is a ready-to-deploy solution assembled from curated geo-analytics indicators, and the catalogue listed eleven of them: Vegetation Interference, Road Safety, Water Leak, Water Stress, Water Quality, Carbon Sequestration, Wildfire, Landslide, Flood, EUDR and Location Intelligence. Each is filed under the kind of decision it supports — Act, Plan or Prove — and under an industry.
The processing chain runs in four stages. Inputs combine multi-source Earth Observation imagery, with Copernicus named, alongside in-situ readings and third-party layers such as socio-economic, demographic, terrain, meteorological and traffic data. AI models turn those layers into indicators. Outputs arrive as interactive maps, KPI dashboards, automated alerts, reports and API endpoints. Every result is meant to carry documented sources, model logic, version control and audit trails behind it.
Two elements stand apart. SPAI Chat is a conversational interface built into the platform, trained on Earth Observation data and on the customer's own outputs, so an indicator can be questioned in plain language. And the platform is sold around data sovereignty: proprietary knowledge, methodologies and outputs are said to stay in-house, with on-premise deployment supported where needed.
Earthpulse addresses six sectors — water, energy, civil infrastructure, insurance and financial services, supply chain and logistics, and humanitarian aid. Its methodology is presented as validated by the European Space Agency, and its case studies name Aigües de Manresa, an unnamed digital insurer, and an ESA programme run with the World Bank in the Dominican Republic. SPAI has been listed on Microsoft Marketplace since November 2025.
What it does
- Turn raw satellite imagery into risk indicators a non-specialist can act on
- Monitor assets, networks and territories continuously and raise automated alerts when conditions change
- Produce audit-ready compliance documentation backed by traceable spatial evidence
- Score and rank risk across an asset portfolio so teams know where to intervene first
- Run scenario simulations and trend analysis to anticipate climate and environmental exposure
- Push geospatial intelligence into existing SAP, GIS and ERP workflows through APIs and connectors
- Replicate a proven monitoring solution across new sites and regions in hours
When to use SPAI / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if SPAI is the right fit.
When to use SPAI
- Utility and energy operators watching vegetation, weather and ground movement along thousands of kilometres of power lines, pipelines and distribution networks
- Water utilities that cannot physically inspect buried infrastructure and need to know where a failure is most likely before sending a crew
- Compliance and ESG teams that must produce audit-ready, traceable spatial evidence for regulations such as the EUDR
- Insurers, underwriters and asset managers pricing physical climate exposure across a portfolio of sites
- Development organisations, NGOs and international institutions replacing costly field surveys with satellite-derived monitoring
When not to use SPAI
- Anyone wanting to sign up and start today: there is no self-service, no account creation, and every path leads to a sales conversation
- Buyers who need a published price before they will talk, since no figure appears anywhere on the site or on the Microsoft Marketplace listing
- Developers hoping to prototype against the API first, because it is sold as a delivery mode but has no public documentation
- Procurement teams that require standard terms of service, a signed DPA or a security certification up front — none of the three is published
- Individuals, freelancers and small teams: the whole catalogue is priced and scoped around enterprise and institutional asset portfolios
How to use SPAI
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Book a demo or contact the team: there is no online sign-up, and every entry point is a sales conversation
- Meet an industry specialist who scopes the operational, strategic or compliance problem you are trying to solve
- Choose the Pulse that matches that problem from the catalogue of eleven ready-built solutions
- Define the area, the assets or the network to be monitored, so Earthpulse can configure and activate the Pulse
- Request a demonstration run on your own data before committing
- Receive a customised implementation plan from Earthpulse
- Let SPAI collect satellite imagery plus the socio-economic, demographic, meteorological and traffic layers the Pulse needs
- Consume the results inside SPAI: interactive maps, KPI dashboards, automated alerts and reports
- Wire the indicators into your own systems through API endpoints and connectors to SAP, GIS or ERP tools
- Question the outputs in plain language through SPAI Chat, then replicate the Pulse across further sites and regions
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Pre-built Pulses cut activation from months to hours and can be replicated across new sites and regions
- No GIS or remote-sensing skills needed on the customer side: the indicators arrive already interpreted
- Results land inside existing tools through APIs and connectors rather than in yet another dashboard nobody opens
- Traceability is built into the output — sources, model logic, versioning and audit trails — which is what compliance work actually needs
- Data sovereignty is a stated design principle, with on-premise deployment supported where required
- Credible institutional grounding: European Space Agency programmes, open-source contributions to ESA's EOTDL, and a 2026 ESA Φ-lab Grand Marathon win
- Dated, named case studies and a Microsoft Marketplace listing rather than anonymous claims
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: no pricing page exists, and the vendor's own Microsoft Marketplace listing offers only a "Contact me" button
- No terms of service are published at all — the site carries only a privacy policy, a cookie policy and a Spanish legal notice
- The API is sold as a delivery mode but has no public documentation, so its scope cannot be assessed before buying
- No data processing agreement is published or offered, and no security certification such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 is displayed
- The privacy policy is written only in Spanish on an otherwise English site, and covers website visitors rather than customer data inside SPAI
- The site contradicts itself on its own hosting and on its contact details, which does not inspire confidence in the smaller print
- Nothing can be activated without Earthpulse: every Pulse is configured by the vendor, and the team behind it is small
Pricing & Plans
No price is published. Earthpulse operates a contact-sales model: there is no pricing page on the site, the sitemap contains none, and the company's own listing on Microsoft Marketplace shows a "Contact me" button with no amount, no plan and no free-trial option. Neither a permanent free plan nor a time-limited free trial is announced, and the site does not state that they are unavailable either. A figure can only be obtained by booking a demonstration and going through a scoping conversation, after which Earthpulse issues a customised implementation plan. Buyers should expect pricing to depend on the Pulses selected and on the number of sites, assets or territories monitored.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how SPAI handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR compliance is claimed explicitly and in concrete terms, but only for the website. The privacy policy, written in Spanish, names EARTHPULSE, S.L. (tax ID B01779404) as controller and invokes Regulation (EU) 679/2016 together with Spanish Organic Law 3/2018. It lists the lawful bases used — consent under Article 6.1.a for enquiries, legitimate interest under Article 6.1.f for follow-up information — and grants access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent, exercised at protecciondedatos@earthpulse.ai. It names the Spanish supervisory authority, the AEPD, as the route for complaints, and states that no automated decision-making or profiling takes place. No data protection officer is named, no processing agreement is offered, and nothing in the document addresses customer data handled inside SPAI. As the company is established in Spain, no Article 27 representative is required.
Who owns the data?
Earthpulse publishes no terms of service, so ownership of customer data is never set out contractually in public. What the marketing says is consistent and favourable: on the SPAI page, a customer's proprietary knowledge, methodologies and outputs "stay in-house — fully secure, never shared", and the About page states "Your data, your models, your control", adding that a customer can walk away with their intellectual property intact. The only binding document, the Spanish-language privacy policy, covers website visitors rather than the product: it names EARTHPULSE, S.L. as controller and says visitor data is never transferred to third parties except under a legal obligation. Treat the product-side promises as commitments still to be written into a contract.
Reuse rights
There are no published terms, so nothing states what a customer may do with the intelligence SPAI produces, and no reuse, redistribution or licensing rules are set out. Reading across the site, the outputs are clearly meant to be used freely inside the customer's own workflows: they are delivered into SAP, GIS and ERP systems and through API endpoints, and Earthpulse says a customer can leave with their intellectual property intact. The reverse direction is less settled. The About page says Earthpulse enhances its models with customer data, while the SPAI page says customer outputs are never shared, and SPAI Chat is described as trained on Earth Observation data and on the customer's own outputs. No opt-out mechanism is documented anywhere. Anyone sensitive to model training should get that boundary written down before signing.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Earthpulse publishes hosting information for its website only; nothing is stated about where customer data processed inside SPAI is held. The Spanish-language privacy policy declares international transfers outside the European Union to countries covered by European Commission adequacy decisions and by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Three third parties are named: Microsoft, providing the cloud infrastructure; Vercel, hosting the website and located in the United States; and Google Analytics through third-party cookies. Each is linked to its own data protection policy. One discrepancy is worth flagging: the site declares Vercel as its host, but the pages are in fact served through HubSpot's content management system behind Cloudflare, and the resolved server address is an anycast node. Jurisdiction for the platform itself, and any option to keep processing within the European Union, must be confirmed with the vendor — the on-premise deployment mentioned on the About page may be the relevant answer.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting SPAI.
- Model training is left ambiguous: Earthpulse says it enhances its models with customer data, yet also says customer outputs are never shared — and no opt-out is documented anywhere
- The privacy policy covers website visitors, not the data you would push through SPAI, so nothing public governs the information that actually matters to you
- No terms of service and no data processing agreement means the entire contractual framework is negotiated privately, with no baseline you can read beforehand
- The site states it is hosted on Vercel in the United States, while the pages are visibly served from HubSpot behind Cloudflare — verify hosting and jurisdiction before any commitment
- Automated risk indicators invite over-trust: an alert that turns out to be a modelling artefact can still send a crew out, or worse, stop one being sent
- Building an integration around an API that has no public documentation is a real project risk, since scope, limits and stability cannot be checked in advance
- Basic contact details disagree between pages — the displayed phone number differs from the one behind the link, and the street number varies — so confirm anything you intend to rely on
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for the business team, moderate for IT, and entirely dependent on the vendor. Earthpulse configures and activates each Pulse itself, so there is nothing to install and no GIS skill required: you define the area or assets, and the intelligence arrives ready to read. The onboarding path is a scoping consultation, a demonstration on your own data and a customised implementation plan. Effort appears when you connect the outputs to SAP, GIS or ERP systems through the API — and since no API documentation is public, that work cannot be scoped before contract. Expect a project, not a sign-up.
Deployment
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Behind SPAI
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly is SPAI?
What is the difference between SPAI and a Pulse?
How much does SPAI cost?
Is there a free plan or a free trial?
Do I need GIS or remote-sensing skills to use it?
Does SPAI have an API?
Can SPAI be deployed on our own infrastructure?
Which sectors does Earthpulse target?
What data does SPAI process?
Who is behind SPAI, and how do I exercise my GDPR rights?
Should you pick SPAI?
SPAI is a serious, narrowly aimed product rather than a tool you try on a whim. Its logic is sound: most organisations that would benefit from Earth Observation cannot afford a geospatial team, so Earthpulse sells pre-built solutions — Pulses — and keeps the satellite work invisible. The catalogue of eleven Pulses, the four-stage processing chain, the delivery into SAP, GIS and ERP systems, and the emphasis on documented sources and audit trails all point at buyers with real regulatory and operational stakes: utilities, water networks, insurers, logistics operators and development institutions. The institutional grounding is genuine, with European Space Agency programmes, open-source contributions and named case studies rather than vague claims.
The reservations are all about what is not published. There is no price anywhere, which is a defensible choice for bespoke enterprise work but leaves a buyer unable to gauge fit before investing time. More awkwardly, there are no terms of service at all, no data processing agreement, no security certification on display, and no API documentation despite the API being sold as a delivery mode. The privacy policy exists, is specific and cites the right legislation, but it is in Spanish on an English site and covers website visitors rather than the customer data flowing through the platform. The site also contradicts itself in small but telling ways, on its own hosting provider and on its phone number.
The verdict is therefore split by buyer type. For an organisation ready to run a scoped procurement, ask the contractual questions directly and sign a bespoke agreement, SPAI looks like a capable platform from a credible team. For anyone expecting to evaluate it self-service, from public documentation, it is not yet ready to be assessed that way.
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