Overview

Most energy projects don't fail on the idea. They fail in the assembly — the investor arrives before the contractor is scoped, the software is commissioned after the hardware is specified, and three parties who have never worked together are introduced at the point where the timeline can least absorb it.

The Hub is our answer to that. It is a working network of investors, engineering and EPC contractors, and software teams, maintained by us and matched to the project that needs them. Not a directory and not an introduction service: we assemble the group, agree one plan, and stay accountable for how it holds together.

What We Do

We hold the relationships, understand what each party is actually good at, and put the right combination around a specific project.

Hub services include:

• Consortium assembly for energy projects

• Investor and co-investor matching

• Engineering and EPC contractor sourcing

• Software and data team selection

• Scope and interface definition between parties

• Commercial and contractual structuring across the group

• Delivery coordination and single-point accountability

• Partner onboarding and network vetting

The composition changes with the project. A rooftop solar portfolio, a storage asset and a grid software product need three different groups.

Our Approach

We begin with the project, not the network. What has to be built, in which market, under whose regulatory regime, on what timeline, and paid for how. Until that is clear, matching anyone to anything is guesswork.

From there we work out which sides the project actually needs. Some need capital and engineering but no software. Some have the capital and need a delivery team that can pass an investor's diligence. We propose a specific group with reasons, not a list of options, and we tell you where we hold an interest in any party we're recommending.

Once the group is formed, the coordination work begins and it is the part most people underestimate. Interfaces between contractors and software teams have to be defined before anyone starts, not discovered during commissioning. Payment and milestone structures across three parties have to align or the whole thing stalls on the first delay. We handle that, and you deal with one counterpart rather than three.

On the network side, this runs continuously. We vet partners before they enter, we track how they perform on real projects, and we remove the ones that don't hold up.

Why It Matters

The energy sector is unusually bad at this, for a structural reason: capital, engineering and software come from three industries that speak different languages and work on incompatible clocks.

Investors think in fund cycles. EPC contractors think in procurement and commissioning schedules measured against grid connection dates. Software teams think in sprints. Left to coordinate themselves, each optimises their own timeline and the project absorbs the difference — usually as delay, sometimes as a rebuild when the software turns out to assume equipment that was never specified.

A group that has worked together before, assembled by someone who understands all three, removes most of that friction before it starts. It also changes how the project looks to a funder: a credible consortium with defined interfaces is a materially different proposition from a founder with a deck and three pending conversations.

What You Can Expect

Projects that come through the Hub typically get:

• A complete delivery group instead of three separate searches

• Partners who have been vetted on real work, not on a capability statement

• Interfaces and responsibilities defined before anyone breaks ground

• Aligned milestones across capital, engineering and software

• One point of accountability across the whole group

• A proposition that is easier for investors to underwrite

How we're paid, plainly: a coordination fee, equity in the venture, or both, agreed before we assemble anything. We do not take undisclosed referral commissions from partners in the network — if a recommendation would benefit us financially through a party we're proposing, you'll be told before you consider it.

Applying to join: if you are an investor, contractor or software team working in the energy sector, the Hub is open to new members through the Become a partner route on the Partners page.