Where is the operating dollar actually leaking?
Six weeks to a dollar-denominated truth.
Before Corvana deploys anything, Aria maps where operating time and capital leak inside your utility. She reads OMS, GIS, WMS, EAM, CIS, and the calendars and inboxes that surround them, interviews the operators who actually run the work, and returns a quantified operating readout. Sole-sourceable under $250K. Signed in six weeks.
What Aria does in Assessment.
- 01 / 04CapabilitySole-source posture
Sole-source posture
Under $250K with a fixed six-week scope, the engagement fits inside most utility procurement thresholds without an RFP. Procurement counsel has reviewed the pattern with three IOUs.
- 02 / 04CapabilityCFO-grade numbers
CFO-grade numbers
Every dollar figure in the readout cites its source table, its assumption, and the operator who validated it. The finance team can reproduce the model themselves if they choose.
- 03 / 04CapabilityLive baseline
Live baseline
The operating ledger keeps running after week six. When a wedge deploys, before-and-after savings are instrumented against a baseline the whole organization already trusts.
- 04 / 04CapabilityNo integration lift
No integration lift
Read-only connectors under existing RBAC. No data lake, no middleware project, no new identity surface. IT security signs off on a pattern they have seen before.
How Aria runs Assessment, end to end.
- OBSERVATION LEDGER
Aria reads the stack under your RBAC.
Connectors into OMS, GIS, EAM, WMS, CIS/MDM, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook run under existing role permissions. No new data lake, no ETL project. Within ten business days Aria has a read-only footprint across the systems that already decide how the utility runs.
Artifact · System-of-record inventorySystem-of-record inventoryObserving- Field dispatch$18.4M/yr
- Vegetation cycle$7.1M/yr
- Customer ops$4.6M/yr
- STAKEHOLDER FIELDWORK
She interviews the operators, not just the executives.
Twenty to forty structured interviews with dispatchers, foremen, rate-case analysts, meter-ops leads, and the VPs above them. Aria reconciles what the logs say against what the humans actually do. The gap between the two is where the dollars live.
Artifact · Fieldwork transcript archiveFieldwork transcript archiveMapping- Vegetation cycle$7.1M/yr
- Customer ops$4.6M/yr
- Storm war room$2.9M/event
- LEAKAGE MODEL
Every friction gets a dollar figure.
Aria models unnecessary truck rolls, deferred transformer risk, high-bill call handle time, and meeting rework in annualized dollars tied to the underlying data. No adjectives. Every number traces back to a source table and a defensible assumption the CFO’s team can re-run.
Artifact · Quantified waste registerQuantified waste registerRanking- Customer ops$4.6M/yr
- Storm war room$2.9M/event
- Rate-case evidenceDefensible
- WEDGE RANKING
The readout names the first three fights.
Aria ranks the operating leaks by recoverable dollars, deployment risk, and regulatory posture. The top three become candidate wedges: vegetation, dispatch, customer-ops, or whatever your stack actually surfaces. Each is scoped with a 90-day deployment plan and a prudence-review-ready evidence trail.
Artifact · 90-day deployment slate90-day deployment slateDeploying- Customer ops$4.6M/yr
- Storm war room$2.9M/event
- Rate-case evidenceDefensible
- LIVE HANDOFF
Telemetry stays on after week six.
The readout is not a deck. The operating ledger remains live inside Synapse, refreshed from the same systems Aria observed during the engagement. When a wedge deploys, the baseline is already instrumented, which means before-and-after savings are defensible on day one of the next phase.
Artifact · Persistent Synapse baselinePersistent Synapse baselineProving- Customer ops$4.6M/yr
- Storm war room$2.9M/event
- Rate-case evidenceDefensible
“A readout is only useful if its first number survives a CFO’s second look.”Aria methodology · Assessment
What Aria ships.
Every engagement surfaces as a live Synapse workspace. The readout below is how Assessment looks the week it ships — scenario data from the published live demo.
- Field dispatchCritical31% of truck rolls closed without the work order completed.$18.4M/yr
- Vegetation cycleWatchCircuit evidence split across three PDFs, one WMS, one spreadsheet.$7.1M/yr
- Customer opsWatchHigh-bill calls average 11 minutes; 42% touch three systems.$4.6M/yr
- Storm war roomLoggedDecisions logged in chat; action items lost within 48 hours.$2.9M/event
- Rate-case evidenceOn trackOperational claims pulled manually from five systems per cycle.Defensible
Setting a new standard for operating intelligence.
“The findings were gold.”VP · Electric Grid Operations
- Client
- Fortune 500 energy utility
- 20,000+ employees · U.S. regulated utility
- Scope
- Electric Grid Operations
- Three-week diagnostic
- What Aria found
- Fifteen automations identified. Eighty percent of operational time mapped to repetitive work — all sized, ranked and handed off to the operating team.
What you leave with.
Artifacts that outlive the engagement — every deliverable grounded in the operating model Aria builds during the assessment, maintained live after close.
- Quantified operating-leakage register
- Ranked 90-day wedge slate
- System-of-record inventory and access map
- Persistent Synapse baseline telemetry
Explore the surfaces behind every engagement.
Every Aria engagement rides on the same four product surfaces — whichever solution you scope, you get the same assessment cadence, agent deployment, interview system, and research model.
- Operating readoutOperating readout
Assessment & Diagnosis
The six-week operational intelligence assessment behind every engagement.
Explore - Autonomous agentsKYC triage agentLiveThroughput+38%Cycle time−44%Exceptions2Running
Agent Deployment
Custom AI agents that ship against measured waste — success criteria up front.
Explore - Conversation intelligenceARA
Stakeholder Interviews
Aria runs targeted operator interviews to close the gaps the systems can’t fill.
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Aria V1 Research Model
Utility-operations depth, forty-plus frameworks, eighteen named benchmark sources.
Explore
The questions buyers ask before signing.
If the answer isn't here, ask Aria in the live demo — Aria will answer with the same benchmark discipline the engagement uses.
Can this be sole-sourced, or do we need an RFP?
Most utilities sole-source Corvana’s Assessment because it lands under the common $250K procurement threshold and its scope is fixed. We have shared the engagement letter pattern with procurement counsel at three IOUs and one municipal. If your threshold is lower, we will scope accordingly; the methodology does not change.What systems do you need to connect to in six weeks?
Aria reads from your OMS, GIS, EAM or WMS, CIS and MDM, and the collaboration surface (Teams, Slack, SharePoint, Outlook) under existing RBAC. No data leaves your tenancy. No new identity provider, no new lake. If a system is not available in the window, Aria documents the gap and proceeds with the rest.Is this a slide deck at the end?
No. The readout is a live surface inside Synapse, backed by a written operating memo. The dollar figures refresh from the source systems on the same cadence your operators update them. The memo is the artifact executives read; the surface is what their teams live inside.Who needs to be in the room from our side?
A sponsoring VP (typically Grid Ops, Field Services, or CIO), a data and access lead, and twenty to forty operator interviewees drawn from dispatch, vegetation, meter ops, rate case, and customer care. We do not require a dedicated PM from your side. Aria runs the engagement.How do you handle NERC CIP and cyber posture?
Aria’s connectors are read-only and operate under existing role permissions. We do not touch OT networks or BES Cyber Systems. For utilities under CIP-004 through CIP-013, our deployment pattern has been reviewed alongside your security team before any connector goes live.What if the readout tells us we do not need a deployment?
Then we say so. The engagement is fixed-fee; our incentive is not to sell a wedge that does not clear hurdle. Two of the last twelve assessments ended with a recommendation to defer deployment for two quarters. The operating ledger stayed live; the wedges came later.How is this different from a management consultancy’s diagnostic?
Consultancies deliver a deck. Corvana delivers a live operating surface plus a memo. Their work ends at the readout; ours begins there. The telemetry Aria stands up in week one becomes the baseline for every wedge you deploy afterward. The Assessment is not a study, it is the first layer of the product.
Six weeks to a dollar-denominated truth.
Book a demo and see how Aria works through Assessment.
Every utility operation, one Aria.
Assessment is one of ten wedges Aria runs inside a utility, plus two buyer-type framings. Every wedge rides the same assessment cadence, the same agent deployment posture, the same prudence-ready evidence discipline.
- By areaVegetationCycle compliance, crew productivity, and FERC-auditable evidence reconciled across LiDAR, satellite, and field crews.Read
- By areaStormStorm-room decision velocity, ETR accuracy, and mutual aid coordination in one audited restoration ledger.Read
- By areaField dispatchCrew-to-work matching, parts-on-truck reconciliation, and one-touch close-out across every truck roll.Read
- By areaAsset managementRisk-ranked asset replacement, condition data reconciliation, and deferred-failure cost quantified in dollars.Read
- By areaCustomer operationsCIS, MDM, and CCS reconciliation with high-bill deflection and AMI event triage at scale.Read
- By areaSupply chainInventory, work-plan demand, and vendor pipeline reconciled into one weeks-of-coverage ledger.Read
- By areaMeetingsStorm calls, steering committees, and war-room decisions captured and translated to accountable tickets.Read
- By areaMemoryTribal knowledge captured as structured SOPs, root-cause reasoning, and interview archives before the retirement cliff.Read
- By areaRegulatoryRate-case evidence instrumented at the source so every operational claim is prudence-ready in testimony.Read
- By typeUtilitiesAria deploys inside IOUs, munis, and co-ops with audit-ready, prudence-tested evidence.Read
- By typeEnergy servicesAria turns field operations into crew-level EBITDA motion for PE-backed services platforms.Read