Forward Deployed Operations
We do the work inside your company so your fleet runs on one record.
Staff your operations, engineering and compliance teams at a fraction of the cost. Onsite in your office or remote, our team will do the heavy lifting transforming your operations and compliance posture.
Why forward deployed exists
Nobody fills the gap between the owner, the consultant and the system of record. So we do.
Does not have the time
Setting up every plant properly, with every file, every setting and every requirement in one place, is months of work nobody has time for.
Is way too expensive
Engineering consultants at $300 to $600 per hour cost too much for plant and compliance readiness work. Compliance consultants without engineering expertise cost less, but they cannot do the engineering part of the job.
Does the readiness work for you
Our Forward Deployed Managers do the readiness work for you, show the value across the fleet, and take your team on the journey until they own it.
The readiness chain
Files. Profile. Equipment. Plant ready.
Every study, model, simulation and verification an engineer runs is blocked until a plant's files are loaded, its profile is filled in and its equipment is on the record. That is the work Forward Deployed does, plant by plant, across the fleet.
Files
Your file shares, RFI dumps and OEM packages come into the plant's folder. Every file is tagged, summarized and routed into the plant's folder automatically; nothing you uploaded is lost.
Profile
Identity, authorities and registration: regional enforcement authority, interconnection authority, transmission owner, NERC registration and functions, CIP rating. Get these right and the rule set for the plant is right.
Equipment
From the single-line diagram out: transformers, collection system, switchgear, every relay and its settings, inverters or turbines, the plant controller. Every relay on the record, not a sample of three.
Ready
The plant is the single source of truth for what it can do. Studies, model verification, ride-through curves and compliance procedures run on it without a data chase.
What we automate
Six things your team stops doing by hand.
Every task and project, tracked for you
Study recommendations, operator notices and data requests become assigned, dated tasks in the Dashboard, grouped into the projects they belong to. Nobody on your team keeps the spreadsheet.
Plant information and equipment inventory
Every plant's settings, equipment and single-line details are read out of the documents you already have and kept current, with every value tied to its source page.
Roles, responsibilities and change management
Who owns what at each plant, and every settings or model change logged with its reason and its evidence, so the audit trail writes itself.
Compliance deadlines, status and reporting
Every applicable requirement, its deadline and its status for every plant, with the fleet report ready any day of the year instead of the week before the audit.
Compliance evidence, filed and cited
Every compliance claim links to the document and page that proves it. Missing evidence shows up as a named gap with an owner, not as a surprise at the audit.
The rule set, curated per plant
The plant's authorities and registration drive the standards that apply to it, so the compliance page shows the right requirements for each site and nobody maintains the applicability matrix by hand.
How the switch happens
We do the migration. Your systems stay on. Your team does no setup.
Swipe for the full table
| Phase | What happens | What you do |
|---|---|---|
| Kickoff | Scope of sites and modules confirmed with you; we stand up the Dashboard tasks for every module in scope. Status comes to you every two weeks from here on. | One scoping call. |
| Access and intake | You grant read access to the file shares, trackers and GRC tools you already use. We read every file and raise the data requests and OEM questions in the first week. | Grant access. Send what you have, in the state it is in. |
| Migration | Files, records and open tasks move into the Dashboard. Your existing systems keep running alongside it and the Dashboard feeds them, so nothing has to be switched off. One owner moved six systems and 400,000 files in sixty days. | Nothing. Keep working the way you do today. |
| Adoption | We work the Dashboard for you for as long as you want. When your people are ready, we teach it one role and one task at a time, live, until it takes minutes instead of days. | Join a working session when you are ready. |
| Expansion | The first plants and the first standard become the pattern for the fleet, until compliance, modeling and interconnection all run on the same record. | Pick the next plants. |
One plant. One PRC-028-1 assessment. Free.
Pick a plant. We build its record and run its PRC-028-1 assessment at no cost, in under a week. Then decide.