ADAM · AVAILABLE Q3 '26 CEB · LIVE @ 3 FEEDERS SP&L · 238,104 CUST MODELED SRE SERIES · PART 7 OF 7 SHIPPED
Energy infra software & consulting

The grid is never done. Push smarter.

AI, ML, and advanced analytics for utility teams. Built alongside your engineers, grounded in real data, architected so your team owns it after we leave.

17 yrsUtility operations
IterativeNot transformation
StochasticNot deterministic
TransferredNot dependent
FEEDER 104-B · CEB · 2026 YTD LIVE

SAIDI burn-rate

0.94×
SAIDI YTD138.4 min
SAIFI YTD0.82
CEMI-52,184 cust
RegimeRandom
Days elapsed66.1 %
Budget used62.4 %
→ Circuit Error Budgets v2.6 · last tick 42s ago
§ 01

What we build.

Three product areas, all grounded in the same methodology: your data, your engineers, your ownership after the engagement ends.

01 · Grid Advisory

Stochastic economics for hard decisions.

Grid modernization strategy, implementation oversight, and regulatory support — backed by Monte Carlo analytics that hold up under cross-examination. Provenance-tracked data across a variety of sources. No magic numbers; every assumption is auditable.

  • Grid modernization strategy & roadmaps
  • Implementation oversight
  • Regulatory support & expert testimony
  • Monte Carlo IRP, adequacy, BTM sizing
Data center power supply analytics & optimization →
02 · Grid Reliability

SRE error budgets, per circuit.

SAIDI/SAIFI-derived budgets, burn-rate alerting, Weibull regime detection, CEMI equity overlay. The SRE methodology, adapted for distribution.

  • Per-feeder error budgets
  • Burn-rate alerting
  • Weibull regime trending
  • CEMI-5 equity analysis
Circuit Error Budgets →
03 · ML & Automation

Models your engineers trust.

Outage prediction, load forecasting, hosting capacity, predictive maintenance. Trained on your data, documented so the team maintains it long after the engagement.

  • Outage prediction
  • Load forecasting
  • Hosting capacity
  • Predictive maintenance
ML Playground →
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus, our operating principle

Principle 01Iterative, not transformation.

Transformation projects die at Year 3. Small, durable wins compound. We ship something your team uses in week six, then again in week twelve.

Principle 02Stochastic, not deterministic.

The grid isn't a spreadsheet. Ranges, distributions, and regime changes are what your decisions actually depend on. Not single numbers.

Principle 03Transferred, not dependent.

Every model is documented, every notebook is yours. The day we leave, your team owns the thing. No API keys held hostage, no "support retainer" trap.

Principle 04Operator-first, not vendor-first.

15+ years across generation and distribution means we start from what the engineer actually sees. Not what a product demo promises in a deck.

§ 02

Writing.

The seven-part series on Site Reliability Engineering for the distribution grid. If you want to know how we think, start here.

SRE for the Grid · Part 1 of 7

BGP, FLISR, and the shape of a failure you can afford.

What network engineers call an "error budget" maps cleanly onto distribution reliability, if you stop thinking of SAIDI as a scorecard and start thinking of it as a currency. Here's the math, the analogy, and the org-design implication.

18 min read · Mar 11, 2026 · Read article →
Adam BrownFounder · Sisyphean Gridworks
About

15+ years across the power stack, from the coal pile to the customer, taught me what tools the industry needs. 1.5 years in tech taught me how to build them.

My career started on a laborer crew, blasting slag off coal-fired boilers with explosives and high-pressure water. From there: outage planning at Dayton P&L, rotating-equipment engineering and generation asset management at AES, then Director of Utilities Asset Management, where I authored PUCO expert testimony for the $240M AES Ohio Smart Grid Phase 2. I watched several "digital transformation" programs come and go.

Then 18 months as COO of Engineered Intelligence, an AI software startup, taught me how modern teams actually ship. That's where the second half of the thesis came together.

Sisyphean Gridworks is what I built after. A consultancy for teams who don't want another platform; they want tools their engineers will actually open tomorrow.

Read the full story →
Book a call

The first conversation is always a diagnostic.

30 minutes. Share what you're trying to move. I'll tell you whether I'm the right person for it, and if not, who I'd call instead.

LocationRemote · US-based
AvailabilityQ3 2026 onwards
Typical engagement6–16 weeks
Engagement typesFixed-scope · Retainer · Audit