Plan five years ahead, build the software, train your people

I offer three services to power, battery and energy-storage companies. Advisory gives you a five-year plan built around your customers' lasting problems. Delivery builds the AI software that plan calls for. Training teaches your staff to manage it. Work starts with a one-week Discovery at a fixed price, from NZ$2,500. The four steps I follow are on the approach page.

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None of this work replaces your staff. They gain better information, sooner. For example, a service manager learns in month nine, not year seven, that a battery fleet is ageing faster than its warranty assumed.

Plan and train

Decide what your customers will need from you in five years before you spend money on tools.

Write the five-year plan

Advisory at a fixed price. You decide what your customers will need from you, and which of their problems to solve first.

Solves: Customers arrive with a quote their AI wrote, and you compete on price.

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Train your people

Hands-on workshops on your staff's own tasks. They learn to manage AI and to ask it better questions.

Solves: You bought AI tools and few people use them well.

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Build it and run it

From one tool that reads your discharge-test reports to a complete platform. Each is prototyped with your customer, and you own the code.

Stop doing it by hand

I connect the software you already run so that repeated work runs automatically. A person approves the steps that matter.

Solves: The same manual process takes hours every week.

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An assistant that knows your records

Assistants that research, draft and sort work using your own data, not the public web.

Solves: You need more hands but can't hire fast enough.

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Live example: eBatt.ai

A website or an internal tool

A website that answers an engineer's question, or a tool that your staff and customers log in to.

Solves: Your website brings you no work, or your staff force real work into spreadsheets that do not fit.

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Live example: self-hosted knowledge base

A complete system

Test data goes in. A forecast and a purchase recommendation come out. A person approves each step.

Solves: You need one system, not five disconnected tools.

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Where I can help most

Standby DC power and batteries are the field I know best. I help you think the plan through and build what you decide on. The business and the decisions stay yours.

Everything I build for you is open source and can run entirely on your own servers. Your compliance team can read the code, and you keep it when the work ends.

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Weeks
To a working prototype
One
Person from plan to build
Private
Self-hosted by default
Yours
The code, at handover

How I work

1 · Start with a five-year plan

Decide what your customers will still need from you in five years. Advisory.

2 · Find the problem that lasts

Choose a cost in your customers' core work that they pay to solve every year. Advisory.

3 · Use the data customers trust you with

Test results, SCADA logs and field records that a customer shares only with a supplier it trusts. Delivery.

4 · Prototype, then run it

A working version in weeks. Then it runs on your servers, with a person approving each decision. Delivery and training.

Engagements

Start with one week

Discovery takes one week at a fixed price. The prototype stage comes next, so you see a working version before you commit to a full build.

Discovery & Architecture

$1.4K–$4.1K
Fixed scope · 1 week
  • · First version of the plan, and the problem to solve first
  • · Map of the data you can use
  • · Fixed quote for the prototype

Prototype / Proof of Value

$4.1K–$11.1K
Time-boxed · 2–3 weeks
  • · Working prototype, tested with your client
  • · Measured against the problem it targets
  • · Go/no-go recommendation

Build & Deploy

$13.8K–$41.5K+
Milestone-based · 4–8 weeks
  • · Production system with human approval
  • · Testing & documentation
  • · Full handover

Handover & Support

Included. Retainer optional.
  • · Source code & docs
  • · Operational runbooks
  • · Team training session

All prices in USD (converted from NZD), exclusive of GST. Timelines are typical ranges. Every price is fixed before the work starts. I do not bill by the hour. Training is priced per day.

You own the code, with full IP handover on every project. I invoice monthly or by milestone, and the payment terms are on the Terms page. Ask about reduced rates for NGOs and Pacific Island nations working on energy access.

Not sure which one you need?

That's what the first call is for: thirty minutes on what your customers will need from you in five years. If the answer isn't AI, I'll say so.

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