Capabilities

What we do, and how we engage.

Four areas of experience, delivered through whichever engagement model fits the problem. Most of our work combines them.

Strategy  ·  Technology  ·  Funding  ·  Talent

Engagement Models

Four ways to work with us.

The right model depends on where the gap actually is: in the plan, in the decision, in the bench, or in the leadership seat.

01

Consulting

Ownership of a defined scope, start to finish. We take the outcome, the plan, and the reporting that goes with it.

02

Advisory

An independent voice alongside leadership: a second read on a strategy, a vendor selection, or a business case before it is committed.

03

Staff Augmentation

Specialists embedded in client teams, working under your structure and reporting lines for as long as the work requires.

04

Executive Search

Leadership identified and placed, with the industry context to judge whether a candidate can actually carry the role.

Depth of Bench

Areas of experience.

Management and Strategy

Leadership, roadmaps, and business cases.

Strategic planning that survives contact with the operating environment: a defensible view of where the organization is going, what it will cost, and how the case is made to the people who have to approve it.

  • Strategic planning and energy transition strategy
  • Technology and investment roadmaps
  • Business cases and benefit modeling
  • Business process design
  • Organizational change management
  • Operating model and governance design
Technical and Operations

Solution architecture and operations support.

The technical work between a decision and a system that runs: selecting it, specifying it, integrating it, and supporting the operation once it is live.

  • Solution architecture and system design
  • Procurement, RFP development, and evaluation
  • Vendor management and oversight
  • Project and program management
  • Operational technology and field systems
  • Operations support and performance improvement
Grants

Grant writing, management, and compliance.

Funding is its own discipline. We help identify the right programs, write the application, and then carry the administrative and compliance load that arrives with an award.

  • Funding strategy and opportunity assessment
  • Grant writing and application development
  • Grant management and reporting
  • Regulatory and compliance support
  • Business cases for regulated recovery
Learning and Development

Building client capability for new technology.

New systems fail quietly when nobody was trained to run them. We build the capability alongside the deployment so the organization owns the outcome after we leave.

  • Capability assessment and skills planning
  • Technology enablement and training
  • Role, process, and procedure design
  • Knowledge transfer and documentation
  • Change adoption support

Specialties

The technologies and disciplines we are asked for most.

Grid and Technology

  • AMI
  • EV
  • DERMS
  • ADMS
  • DLR
  • Advanced Sensors
  • Analytics
  • AI
  • Inverters

Advisory and Delivery

  • Roadmap
  • Procurement
  • Solution Architecture
  • Advisory Services
  • Project Management
  • Operations Support
  • Vendor Management

Funding and Compliance

  • Business Cases
  • Grant Writing
  • Grant Management
  • Regulatory and Compliance

How We Engage

A sequence, not a template.

Engagements start wherever the client already is. The order below is how the work usually unfolds when we are involved from the beginning.

01

Understand

Time with the system and the people who run it: what is installed, what the data says, and which constraints are technical rather than organizational.

Output Current-state assessment

02

Frame

A clear statement of the problem and the business case for solving it, scoped to what can be defended in front of leadership, a regulator, or a funding agency.

Output Business case and scope

03

Design

Roadmap, solution architecture, process, and roles, sequenced so dependencies are visible and the first phase can start before the last is perfect.

Output Roadmap and architecture

04

Deliver

Procurement, vendor management, and project management through execution. We stay close to the field, where plans meet the things nobody wrote down.

Output System in service

05

Sustain

Training, documentation, compliance reporting, and handover. The measure of the engagement is whether it still works six months after we are gone.

Output Capability retained in-house

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Which of these is the one you need?

If you are not sure, describe the situation and we will tell you, including when the honest answer is that you do not need us.