Spacture AI
Where Personal Passion Meets Tech Innovation

Retail theft has become a sophisticated challenge, with criminals using increasingly strategic methods to exploit store vulnerabilities. Unlike casual shoplifting, which often involves individuals taking small items, modern retail theft is calculated and systematic. Organized retail crime rings, push-out thefts, and fraudulent self-checkout transactions are becoming more prevalent, making it difficult for retailers to keep up. Groups of offenders collaborate to overwhelm security measures, using distraction tactics or exploiting blind spots in surveillance systems. The financial consequences are staggering—the U.S. retailers saw a 93 percent rise in shoplifting incidents in 2023 compared to 2019, and if left unchecked, losses could surpass $150 billion by 2026.

Traditional security methods—such as loss prevention teams or outdated surveillance systems—are proving ineffective. Manual monitoring is inefficient, store associates often lack the authority or ability to intervene quickly, and conventional security cameras provide reactive evidence rather than real-time deterrence. As theft becomes more organized and strategic, retailers need an advanced, proactive solution tailored to modern threats.

Spacture AI is redefining retail security with cutting-edge, AI-driven technology designed to detect and deter theft before it happens. Unlike conventional security measures that rely on human observation, the company integrates advanced computer vision, behavioral analytics, and AI-powered pattern recognition to analyze real-time store activity.

“We monitor customer behavior, identify suspicious patterns, and instantly alert store personnel—stopping theft before it happens,” says Nazim Eryilmaz, CEO and Founder of Spacture AI. “Instead of simply recording incidents after the fact, our system enables real-time intervention to prevent losses.”

State-of-the-Art in Every Way

Already a recognized leader in retail security, Spacture AI stands out for its seamless integration into existing security infrastructures. Whether enhancing surveillance cameras, reinforcing access control systems, or improving self-checkout fraud detection, it delivers a cutting-edge, multi-layered defense solution. Instead of relying on facial recognition, which raises privacy concerns, the company focuses on behavioral analytics, ensuring compliance with regulations such as GDPR and U.S. consumer privacy laws. This makes it a legally sound, ethically responsible, and highly effective solution for modern retailers.

Spacture AI goes beyond theft prevention—it also provides valuable business insights that help retailers optimize operations. Analyzing customer movement patterns and shopping behaviors, helps businesses refine store layouts, improve product placement, and optimize staffing decisions based on peak hours. Additionally, the company offers a mobile app that allows retailers to track suspicious individuals, recognize VIP customers, and support loyalty programs—all while maintaining strict privacy compliance.

Building a Vision

At the heart of Spacture AI’s success is its commitment to customer partnerships. Retailers trust the company not only for its advanced technology but also for its proven ability to deliver results. By reducing shrinkage, improving security efficiency, and enhancing store operations, Spacture AI has become a critical tool for retailers across the U.S., including well-known industry names.

The inspiration behind Spacture AI comes from its founder, Eryilmaz, whose entrepreneurial journey is a testament to resilience and adaptability. Born in Florida, he spent his childhood abroad but returned to the U.S. every summer to work. While he was working at Walmart as an overnight stocker, he had witnessed firsthand the frustration and powerlessness that retail workers face when confronting sophisticated theft. These experiences shaped his understanding of American work culture and sparked his entrepreneurial mindset as well as planted the seeds for what would become Spacture AI.

After graduating, he moved back to the U.S. just two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, believing he could find a job in the growing tech sector. However, as job losses mounted worldwide, he realized the traditional career path wouldn’t be enough. He briefly pursued a master’s program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison but soon left to join an early-stage startup in Chicago as an engineer working on inventory tracking software for retailers where he gained firsthand experience in tech and innovation. This role provided him with crucial insights into retail operations and technology development.

In 2021, Eryilmaz’s expertise led him to Silicon Valley, where he headed a team of engineers building internal inventory tracking solutions for a quick-delivery retail startup. It was here that he had his pivotal realization: regardless of how sophisticated their inventory systems became shrinkage due to shoplifting remained retailers’ most persistent and costly challenge.

Determined to address this problem, Eryilmaz evaluated every available solution on the market. After testing numerous existing technologies and finding them all inadequate for the scale and sophistication of modern retail theft, he made a decisive move. Convinced that retailers needed a fundamentally different approach, he relocated to New York to found Spacture AI—a company built specifically to fill this critical gap in retail security - shrinkage due to theft.

As a brand-new company, gaining the trust of retailers was a significant challenge, but Eryilmaz persevered. By knocking on doors and demonstrating the effectiveness of his technology, he built Spacture AI into a trusted partner for retailers nationwide.

Today, what started as a bold idea has become a critical tool for retail security, helping businesses protect their profits and provide a safer shopping experience. Spacture AI continues to evolve, driven by its mission to offer innovative, legally compliant, and highly effective security solutions tailored for the modern retail landscape.

For Eryilmaz, this journey is about more than just business— it’s about creating something meaningful.

“We are solving real problems every day,” he reflects. “And that’s what makes this all worth it.”