Built for load shedding
Every design decision assumes outage schedules, diesel backup, and grid instability. Not retrofitted from first-world assumptions.
Your assets, orchestrated.
We don't sell generators or solar panels. We make what you already own work together.
DisaggregationOrchestrationPredictiveEdge-First
The Intelligence Layer
Most facilities already run an accidental microgrid: grid connection, diesel generator, and often solar and storage. The assets are there, but coordination is weak. Transitions are reactive, generators run longer than needed, and operators lack a single view of what is driving demand.
We add the missing coordination layer. Edge controllers deployed per zone use machine learning to disaggregate aggregate signals into generation, storage, cooling, backup power, and base load. They orchestrate transitions, battery strategy, and outage preparation in real time. The result is lower diesel usage, smoother transitions, and more reliable operations.
- Single clamp visibility across generation, storage, cooling, backup, and base load — no sub-meter rewiring.
- Real-time orchestration of grid, solar, batteries, and diesel so every transition is planned, not reactive.
- OTA updates and fleet learning push new optimisations to every controller without rolling a truck.
Coordination at Required Scale
Your operators are sophisticated professionals managing difficult constraints. The challenge isn't expertise — it's the coordination requirements themselves.
- Fast response across multiple assets. Continuous optimisation throughout the day. Frequent transitions each month. These are physical coordination demands that manual oversight struggles to sustain consistently.
- Cortex handles that coordination layer at machine speed. Your team stays in control and can focus on production planning, maintenance, and expansion instead of constant power firefighting.
This isn't about replacing people. It's about providing coordination at the speed and scale the facility requires.
How We Orchestrate Your Microgrid
Three integrated layers: edge intelligence that monitors your facility, real-time control that coordinates your power sources, and predictive scheduling that acts before load shedding hits.
Disaggregate Every Load
One device, one meter point. Edge models separate aggregate signals into five asset categories: solar generation, battery storage, cooling, backup power, and base load. No sub-meter rollout required.
Coordinate Automatically
The system determines source priority, battery charge windows, and generator runtime based on live conditions. Minute-by-minute optimisation with smooth transitions between grid, diesel, solar, and storage.
Predict and Prepare
We combine outage schedules with local demand forecasts. If load shedding is expected at 16:00, the system can pre-cool, pre-charge, and shift flexible loads in advance.
The Progression
Start with orchestration. Expand as your needs grow.
Controller
Orchestrate your existing assets. Predict load shedding. Cut diesel spend.
NOW
Services
Maintenance, fuel procurement, equipment financing. We manage it.
NEXT
PPA
We own and operate the equipment. You pay per kWh delivered.
FUTURE
Utility
Full energy company. Generation, distribution, management.
HORIZON
Why We Win
The competitive advantages that make Underscore the operating system for industrial microgrids.
Offline-first resilience
Edge computing that survives grid failures: local systems continue optimising when connectivity drops, then sync and learn when power returns. Load shedding doesn't stop coordination.
Network learning
Each deployment improves the optimisation engine for everyone. Patterns from one site sharpen forecasting at another, and one region's learning accelerates performance across the network.
Technical moat
Real-time hybrid generation orchestration is difficult: multi-source coordination, local predictive models, and edge systems that remain effective offline. Executing all three reliably creates defensibility.
What You Get
When you work with us, you get:
- 1Real-time orchestration of your grid, generator, solar, and battery assets
- 2Predictive load shedding management that prepares your site before outages hit
- 3Edge intelligence that keeps working through power and connectivity failures
- 4Continuous improvement as the system learns your facility patterns over time
Outcome: reduced diesel costs, stronger margins, and more reliable operations through load shedding.
The Hardware: Underscore Cortex
Cortex units deploy across your facility where visibility and control are needed. Each runs inference locally, executes control logic, and coordinates with peer units. One Cortex per zone.
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