GridIntel was founded by engineers who'd worked inside utilities, on substation crews, in NERC compliance teams, and on the consultant side of the desk. We saw the same pattern over and over: the tools available didn't match the way the work actually got done. Inspections were paper-first and database-second. Project portfolios lived in spreadsheets. GIS was a reference, not a workspace. Cyber and physical lived in different worlds. And while we saw it first in power, we kept hearing the same pain from data center, renewable, industrial, and government teams — the same problems, dressed in different vocabulary.
We built Power-View and VigilantGrid because we wanted to use them — the platforms we wished we'd had on the substation floor, in the project meeting, and in the SOC. Today they support utilities, data center developers, renewable operators, industrial sites, oil & gas operators, and government and defense teams across North America. Every release is shaped by the people who ran the work yesterday and will run it tomorrow.