Agentic AI for grid participation

Turn your energy assets into grid revenue.

ChargeCatalyst is the software layer between your assets and the wholesale market. We prove each site's firm capacity and bridge your EMS to a VPP aggregator. Latent capacity becomes revenue.

Capacity Readout
Sized To a forecast
Stress-test Before it's sold
Bridged EMS to aggregator
Delivered Firm power
Forecast to delivery, one modelContinuously re-proven
01 Why Now

The grid is out of headroom as demand keeps climbing, and every high-energy site is sitting on capacity it could put to work.

Buildings, cold storage, manufacturing and EV charging are large electrical sites that can deliver far more to the grid — through the right coordination of on-site batteries, solar and flexible demand. ChargeCatalyst turns that into grid participation, proving how much firm capacity each site can deliver so it can be sold back to the market.

BuildingsCold StorageManufacturingEV ChargingData Centers
02 Platform

We sit between the market and the meter.

Behind every meter is a working microgrid: load, generation, storage and controls. ChargeCatalyst sits between that site and the wholesale market. Our agents design the build, prove its firm capacity, and bridge your EMS to a VPP aggregator that takes it to market.

MarketISO / RTO
Wholesale marketsDemand response
VPP / Market Participantholds the position
Your own market access, or a partner aggregator
↑ firm capacity committedmarket prices & signals ↓
ChargeCatalyst
Agentic AI · we sit here
01 Site Assessor
Plans & sizes the build before it exists.
writes →
Site Model
One shared model of the asset's real physics & limits
optimization core
02 Firmness Engine
Sets the firm envelope and proves what's deliverable.
← reads
↓ set points via the site EMStelemetry & meter data ↑
The Microgrid a working microgrid behind every meter
LOAD SOLAR + EV STORAGE EMS METER GRID EMS

Each agent models the physics of the assets on site, paired with an optimization core that solves for the best design, firm envelope and market offer. Grid participation becomes software that scales across thousands of sites, instead of a bespoke engineering project run one site at a time.

03 Planning Agent · Site Assessor

Plans & sizes the project.

It discovers and qualifies sites, runs diligence on what each can deliver, then sizes the build for the full revenue stack. All before anything is committed.

01Discover agent
screening thousands of parcels
grid capacity headroom
zoning permit checked
tariff rebates matched
qualified parcels shortlisted
Discovers and qualifies sites worth building.
02Due Diligence agent
forecasting site utilization
demand profile modeled
cannibalization tested
issues flagged · confidence graded
diligence-graded sites
Forecasts utilization and grades each site's confidence.
03Design agent
sizing storage · solar · load
config optimized
revenue stack matched
sensitivity stress-tested
handed to Firmness Engine
Sizes the build for the full revenue stack, then hands it off.
04 Operating Agent · Firmness Engine

Proves firm delivery.

Sets one firm envelope across every program the asset qualifies for, and proves what it delivers.

The analogy

Think of the Firmness Engine as a credit score for grid assets.

A credit score tells a lender you're good for a loan. The Firmness Engine does the same for power. It proves how much a site can firmly deliver, the number capacity markets require before they'll pay. It's a per-asset rating built from the real physics of your assets and re-proven as they run, rather than the market's class-average derate.

Built for assets that couldn't qualify before.
01
Stress-test every commitment
Tests each bid against heat, demand swings and grid contingencies, so you know what delivers before it's sold.
02
Co-optimize under one envelope
Solves every market program together against the asset's physical limits, so the same capacity isn't committed twice.
03
Set & prove
Sets the operating envelope through your EMS and confirms delivery against revenue-grade telemetry, calibrating to the asset over time.
Proven firm vs. market default
Proven firm Market default
05 The Value Stack

One envelope, multiple programs.

A site's assets have a single physical limit: what they can firmly deliver. That same envelope is offered across wholesale markets, demand response and bill savings, each settling on its own clock. One firm block of power, co-optimized so the same capacity isn't committed twice.

Firm limit
reserve headroom
Firm deliverable capacity one physical envelope · the site's true limit
Power, MWwhat the assets can deliver
Offered across multiple programs
Wholesale markets Capacity · energy · ancillary
Demand response Utility & grid events
Demand-charge savings Behind the meter

Co-optimized under one physical envelope. Committed once, across every program.

06 Use Case · EV Charging

One charging site, end to end.

We find the site, prove what it can deliver, design the microgrid, and bridge it to the market through a VPP aggregator.

01
Discover
Where grid, site and economics line up
02
Due Diligence
Utilization forecasting
03
Design
Battery + solar, right-sized
04
Go live
In market via a VPP aggregator
Before
Grid power in
Sized for charging load.
It draws power and earns nothing back.
ChargeCatalyst
After
Wholesale marketsDemand responseDemand savings
Sized for the full revenue stack.
The same site becomes a paying market participant.
07 Standards & Participation

Built to the rules markets already run on.

The firm rating is bottom-up, derived from each asset's real physics rather than a class-average derate, then expressed in the market's own terms.

Market Access
Wholesale resource via your scheduling coordinator, VPP or aggregator.
Verification
Per-asset firm rating from device physics, re-proven against live telemetry, then aligned with how ISOs accredit capacity (e.g., ELCC) and test deliverability.
Integration
Designed to integrate over the protocols sites already run on: OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, OCPP, Modbus, OPC UA. Vendor-neutral.
Programs
Wholesale markets, demand response and demand-charge savings, where the ISO offers them.
08 Why ChargeCatalyst

Designed for confident commitments.

Firm before you bid
We stress-test the number before it's offered, not after — so your bid reflects what the assets can realistically hold.
Tuned to your assets
Decisions calibrated to each asset's real physics: its limits, efficiency and how it degrades over time.
Works with what you have
Vendor-agnostic across your equipment and market, running over your existing controls, with your own or a partner's market access.
One model, plan to delivery
The same model that plans the project keeps proving it as the assets run, so the plan and the delivered result stay aligned.
09 Team

Team

Ashray Manur, PhD — CEO & Co-Founder
CEO & Co-Founder
Ashray Manur, PhD
PhD Electrical Engineering, UW-Madison. Launched multiple products at Enphase Energy. Expertise in microgrid management and EV charging. Co-founder, Pivot Charging.
Sam Jammal — President & Co-Founder
President & Co-Founder
Sam Jammal
JD, George Washington University Law School. Clean energy executive (startups + gov't). Regulatory and development expertise. Co-founder, Pivot Charging.

Turn latent capacity into firm power.

If you own behind-the-meter assets, develop projects, or aggregate capacity into the wholesale market, we'd like to talk.