What does AI do for a regulated utility that holds up before a commission?
Audit-ready from the first week.
Corvana is the AI consultant for IOUs, municipals, and cooperatives. Aria reads your OMS, GIS, WMS, EAM, CIS, and MDM under existing RBAC, interviews Grid Ops, Field Services, and Regulatory, and quantifies waste in dollars. Every finding ships with FERC-auditable provenance, NERC CIP posture, and prudence-review narrative. Sole-sourceable up to 250K for the opening assessment.
What Aria does in Utilities.
- 01 / 04CapabilitySole-sourceable at the assessment threshold
Sole-sourceable at the assessment threshold
Aria’s opening Assessment is structured to sit under the strategic-advisory sole-source ceiling used by most IOUs, munis, and NRECA co-ops. Procurement closes in weeks, not quarters, and the CRO signs the SOW in the language of prudence, not the language of software.
- 02 / 04CapabilityNo net-new data pipelines
No net-new data pipelines
Aria reads OMS, GIS, WMS, EAM, CIS, MDM, CCS, Slack, email, and SharePoint under the RBAC already in place. No data lake, no CIP-scope expansion, no IT-led integration program. Your Chief Information Security Officer receives an architecture memo, not a migration plan.
- 03 / 04CapabilityEvery claim prudence-ready
Every claim prudence-ready
Before Aria writes a finding, the evidence is captured: source system, record ID, timestamp, responsible manager. The readout you take to GRC prep, to the commission, or to the board is discovery-ready the day it is delivered. The phrase ’we cannot reproduce that number’ does not occur.
- 04 / 04CapabilityBuilt around the retirement cliff
Built around the retirement cliff
A generation of operators is leaving distribution, substation, and customer-ops desks. Aria captures institutional knowledge from interviews, Slack, and meeting transcripts into a memory layer your next cohort inherits. The handoff from the 35-year veteran becomes an asset, not a risk.
How Aria runs Utilities, end to end.
- Scope
Sole-sourced, prudence-framed from the start.
Procurement, Legal, and the CRO scope Aria under the sole-source threshold used for strategic assessments. Statement of work is written in rate-case language — waste quantification, reliability uplift, customer-bill impact — so the engagement is defensible the day it begins.
Artifact · Sole-source SOWSole-source SOWObserving- Vegetation cycle debt-$4.6M deferred reliability
- Transformer replacement queue-$8.2M prudence exposure
- Storm overtime leakage-$2.9M per storm season
- Observe
Read the systems already of record.
Aria connects to OMS, GIS, WMS, EAM, CIS, MDM, and CCS under existing RBAC, plus Slack, email, SharePoint, and meeting transcripts. No net-new pipelines, no data-lake migration, no CIP-scope expansion. Grid Ops, Vegetation, and Customer Ops see read-only access inside their own tenancy.
Artifact · Observation ledgerObservation ledgerMapping- Transformer replacement queue-$8.2M prudence exposure
- Storm overtime leakage-$2.9M per storm season
- Meter exception backlog-$1.7M unbilled and disputed
- Diagnose
Dollarize every finding.
Aria interviews the VP of Grid Ops, Field Services, Customer Ops, and the Chief Regulatory Officer. Waste is quantified by wedge — vegetation cycle debt, transformer fleet age, storm restoration overtime, call-center AHT, meter exception backlog — with line-item provenance back to the source record.
Artifact · Dollarized waste mapDollarized waste mapRanking- Storm overtime leakage-$2.9M per storm season
- Meter exception backlog-$1.7M unbilled and disputed
- Regulatory filings cadenceOn-track under Aria governance
- Deploy
Agents behind your firewall, inside your RBAC.
Aria deploys agents on the wedges the operating committee ranks first. IBEW work rules, CIP change-control, and outage-management approvals are preserved. Every agent action writes back to the system of record with a signed audit entry — no shadow systems, no workarounds.
Artifact · CIP-scoped deployment planCIP-scoped deployment planDeploying- Storm overtime leakage-$2.9M per storm season
- Meter exception backlog-$1.7M unbilled and disputed
- Regulatory filings cadenceOn-track under Aria governance
- Defend
Before-and-after telemetry, prudence-ready.
Aria ships a rate-case-grade readout: baseline, intervention, measured outcome, dollar impact, customer-bill implication. Regulatory counsel receives a discovery-ready evidence package. The CRO walks into GRC prep with a file that answers the prudence question before it is asked.
Artifact · Prudence binderPrudence binderProving- Storm overtime leakage-$2.9M per storm season
- Meter exception backlog-$1.7M unbilled and disputed
- Regulatory filings cadenceOn-track under Aria governance
“A regulator does not want a demo. A regulator wants a record.”Aria methodology · Utilities
What Aria ships.
Every engagement surfaces as a live Synapse workspace. The readout below is how Utilities looks the week it ships — scenario data from the published live demo.
- Vegetation cycle debtCritical12 of 184 distribution circuits behind published trim cycle; SAIDI contribution modeled against last-three-storm base rate-$4.6M deferred reliability
- Transformer replacement queueCritical38 percent of distribution transformers above 25-year service age with no scheduled replacement in the 10-year CapEx plan-$8.2M prudence exposure
- Storm overtime leakageWatchIBEW overtime on the last three named events exceeded mutual-aid-adjusted baseline by 19 percent, concentrated in two districts-$2.9M per storm season
- Meter exception backlogWatchMDM exception queue holds 41K unresolved reads older than 30 days; downstream CIS re-bills and arrears accruing-$1.7M unbilled and disputed
- Regulatory filings cadenceOn trackQuarterly reliability filing assembled manually from four systems; two filings over prior eight cycles missed internal review SLAOn-track under Aria governance
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.
- Dollarized waste map across ten operational wedges with line-item provenance
- CIP-scoped deployment plan preserving IBEW work rules and change-control
- Prudence binder with baseline, intervention, measured outcome, and customer-bill impact
- Institutional-memory layer capturing veteran operator knowledge for the incoming cohort
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.
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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.
Explore - ResearchMcKinsey 7SSCORPorter 5FBLSFREDIBISWorldAPQC PCF
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.
Is Corvana sole-sourceable under our procurement policy?
The opening Assessment is scoped to sit under the strategic-advisory sole-source ceiling most IOUs, munis, and co-ops already use — typically up to $250K. We deliver the SOW in procurement’s preferred template, framed as a regulated-operations assessment, not a software purchase.How does Aria handle NERC CIP scope?
Aria reads under your existing RBAC and does not require net-new data pipelines, which means no CIP-scope expansion for the Assessment. For agent deployment, your CISO co-authors the CIP change-control plan with us before any write-back is enabled. Nothing bypasses your existing controls.Will this hold up in a prudence review or GRC?
Every finding ships with source-system lineage, record IDs, timestamps, and the responsible manager’s attestation. Regulatory counsel receives a discovery-ready evidence package. The intent from day one is that the readout survives cross-examination before the commission.How does Aria respect IBEW work rules?
Before any agent touches a dispatch queue, overtime assignment, or crew routing decision, the deployment plan is reviewed against the governing CBA. Aria operates inside work rules, not around them, and flags any workflow where the rule is ambiguous rather than acting on interpretation.Do you work with municipals and cooperatives, not just IOUs?
Yes. Munis inherit the same prudence posture adapted to city-council governance and rate-payer scrutiny. Co-ops receive an NRECA-aware engagement model, with outputs framed for the board of directors and CFC financing covenants. Scale adjusts; rigor does not.What systems does Aria read from?
OMS, GIS, WMS, EAM, CIS, MDM, and CCS, plus Slack, email, SharePoint, and meeting transcripts. Connectors are read-only during Assessment. Write-back for agent actions is enabled wedge-by-wedge, each under its own change-control record.How fast do we see dollarized findings?
Week four of the opening Assessment. That readout names wedges, attaches dollar impact, identifies the responsible business owner, and sequences the deployment order. Week six, the prudence binder is in regulatory counsel’s hands.
Audit-ready from the first week.
Book a demo and see how Aria works through Utilities.
Every utility operation, one Aria.
Utilities 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 areaAssessmentA six-week, sole-sourceable diagnostic that quantifies operating leakage in dollars across the IT-adjacent stack.Read
- 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 typeEnergy servicesAria turns field operations into crew-level EBITDA motion for PE-backed services platforms.Read