EthosPowerAIPlan the five years, then build the first tool
Your customers' AI now sizes the job and lists your competitors before anyone rings you. It cannot plan your clients' next five years with them, or read the test data behind their firewall. You can. I help you write that plan, build the tool it calls for and bring your people along; the four steps are on the approach page. Prices below are in New Zealand dollars.
Book a 20-min callNothing on this page cuts headcount. Your staff hear first what they gain: the service manager who learns in month nine, rather than year seven, that a battery fleet is ageing faster than its warranty assumed. That is the shape of every engagement here.
Plan it, and bring your people
Decide what your clients will need from you in five years, before you spend a dollar on tools.
Write the five-year plan
Steps 1 and 2. Fixed-scope advisory: what your clients will need from you, and the problem worth building for first.
Solves: Prospects arrive with a quote their AI wrote, and you compete on price.
Learn more →Bring your people with you
Step 4. Hands-on workshops on their own tasks, starting with what each role gains.
Solves: You bought AI tools; nobody uses them well.
Learn more →Build it and run it
Steps 3 and 4: from a tool that reads your discharge-test reports to the whole platform, prototyped with your client and yours to keep.
Stop doing it by hand
Step 4. I connect the tools you already run so repeated work runs itself, with a person approving where it matters.
Solves: The same manual process eats hours every week.
Learn more →An assistant that knows your records
Step 3. Assistants that research, draft and triage from your own data, not the public web.
Solves: You need more hands but can't hire fast enough.
Learn more →Live example: eBatt.aiYour public presence or an internal tool
Step 4. A website that answers an engineer's question, or a tool your staff and clients log into.
Solves: Your website does nothing for you, or you're forcing real work into spreadsheets that don't fit.
Learn more →Live example: self-hosted knowledge baseThe whole system, end-to-end
Steps 3 and 4. Test data in; a forecast and a purchase recommendation out, a person approving each step.
Solves: You need one system, not five disconnected tools.
Learn more →Where I can help most
Standby DC power and batteries are the field I know best. I can help you think the plan through and build what you decide on; the business, and the decisions, stay yours.
Everything I build is open-source and self-hosted: your compliance team can read the code, and you keep it if you leave.
My background →How I work
1 · Write the five-year plan
What will your clients need from you in five years? Advisory. Tools come after the answer.
2 · Find the problem that never ends
A chronic cost in your clients' core work, one they pay to solve every year. Advisory.
3 · Use the data their AI can't reach
Test results, SCADA logs and field records a client opens only to a supplier it trusts. Delivery.
4 · Prototype, then run it
A working version in weeks, then an auditable service with a person signing off each decision. Delivery and training.
Engagements
Start with one week, not a contract
Discovery covers steps 1 and 2 at a fixed price, and you see a working prototype before any open-ended commitment.
Discovery & Architecture
- · The plan and the problem (steps 1–2)
- · Map of the data you can use (step 3)
- · Fixed quote for the prototype
Prototype / Proof of Value
- · Working prototype, tested with your client
- · Measured against the problem it targets
- · Go/no-go recommendation
Build & Deploy
- · Production system, a person signing off
- · Testing & documentation
- · Full handover
Handover & Support
- · Source code & docs
- · Operational runbooks
- · Team training session
All prices in USD (converted from NZD), exclusive of GST. Timelines are typical ranges. Minimum engagement: half day (remote) or 1 day (on-site).
You own the code — full IP handover on every project. Monthly or milestone invoicing, 30-day terms. Specialised rates available for NGOs and Pacific Island nations working on energy access — ask.
Not sure which one you need?
That's what the first call is for: twenty minutes on what your clients will need from you in five years. If the answer isn't AI, I'll say so.