ZECH
Industry

AI for utilities managing long-lived assets and a workforce in the field.

We help energy, water and utility operators turn inspection records, sensor data and engineering documents into support for field crews, reliability planners and customer teams, while keeping operational systems protected.

Use cases we can explore
  1. Vegetation and defect screening
  2. Work order summarization
  3. Load and demand forecasting support
  4. Customer outage assistant

Workflows we work on

  • 01

    Asset inspection and condition review

    Drone, vehicle and crew inspection images of lines, poles, pipes or substations are screened for visible issues, tagged to the asset record and queued for an engineer to confirm and prioritize.

  • 02

    Field crew knowledge on the job

    Crews ask about equipment procedures, safety steps and past work at a site from a mobile device, including with poor connectivity, and receive answers drawn from approved manuals and work history.

  • 03

    Outage and high-bill customer contacts

    During outages or billing cycles, customer questions are answered with current outage status and account information, and cases needing an adjustment or field visit are routed with the context attached.

Constraints we design for

  • Critical infrastructure security

    Operational networks are isolated. We work with approved data exports and read-only interfaces and follow your security architecture for anything near control systems.

  • Safety-critical information

    Answers about safety procedures cite the controlling document and version, and crews are directed to that document rather than to a paraphrase alone.

  • Long asset histories

    Records span decades, formats and acquired companies. Data preparation is part of the work, not an assumption.

  • Regulatory reporting

    Where outputs inform reliability or regulatory reports, the underlying data and methods are documented for review.

Use cases we can explore

Vegetation and defect screening
Flag likely encroachment or damage in inspection imagery for engineer review.
Work order summarization
Summarize asset history before a crew visit so they arrive prepared.
Load and demand forecasting support
Forecasts by feeder or region that planners compare with their existing methods.
Customer outage assistant
Answer outage and restoration questions from live status data across channels.

Where we start

Discovery begins with a few direct questions about your operation.

  • 01Which inspection program produces more imagery or data than your engineers can review?
  • 02What knowledge do field crews currently get by calling a colleague?
  • 03Which data can leave operational networks, and through which approved path?
  • 04Which customer contact peaks strain your service teams most?

Questions buyers ask

No. We work with data exported through approved paths and provide recommendations to people. Control actions remain within your operational systems and procedures.

Tell us the workflow you want to improve.

Tell us about the workflow or product. We reply with questions, a suggested first step and who would work on it.