EthosPowerAIPlan your firm's next five years for clients who ask their AI first.
For network companies, storage integrators and power-equipment makers: redesign what you sell for a market where clients and competitors can know as much as you do.
Power-systems engineer since 1987. I write the plan with you and build its first tool; ebatt.ai is one that is live. You own the code, and it runs on your own network.
Work starts with a one-week Discovery at a fixed price, from NZ$2,500. How an engagement runs
Design Your Solution
Describe a problem your clients never stop having, and the designer drafts a system from open-source tools you can host yourself.
What the work needs
What I bring to your plan
The plan is yours. My part is to help you think it through, then build what you choose.
How the business earns
Selling and delivering standby power since 1992, and running a company since 1996, taught me to start with the numbers that keep a firm alive.
How people change the way they work
I trained as a teacher before I trained engineers. A new tool gets used when the people using it have helped shape it, and not otherwise.
Enough technology to build it
Enough to pick sound, open-source tools and build them myself, so a prototype reaches your client in weeks rather than after a procurement cycle.
How I work
Start with a five-year plan
Decide what your clients will need from you in five years, once their own AI does the sizing; AI is a tactic for getting there.
Find the problem that never ends
Batteries in hundreds of substations age at different rates, and a late replacement can keep a power station offline: a need like that is worth building for.
Use the data their AI can't reach
Test results, SCADA logs and field records sit behind private networks, and clients share them only with a supplier they already trust.
Prototype with them, then run it
Build a small working version with the client in weeks, then run it as a secure, auditable service with a person signing off each decision.
Start with one week, not a contract
Each stage has a fixed price, agreed before it starts. I do not bill by the hour.
1 · Fixed scope · 1 week
Discovery & Architecture
$2.5K–$7.5K
2 · Time-boxed · 2–3 weeks
Prototype / Proof of Value
$7.5K–$20K
3 · Milestone-based · 4–8 weeks
Build & Deploy
$25K–$75K+
4 · After build
Handover & Support
Included + retainer option
New Zealand dollars, excluding GST. What each stage includes, in your currency →
Your data stays on your network
What I build runs on open-source software on your own servers, beside the data your clients' AI cannot reach. It can run with no external connection at all, on a SCADA or OT network. Where a frontier model earns its place, you decide what crosses that boundary.
Start with the five-year plan
Twenty minutes on which of your clients' problems never goes away, and what tool would help them first. No slides.