Billing & permitting automation for energy
From utility statement to subscriber invoice.
Automatically.
We didn't start with AI. We started with the problem—utility formats that change without warning, edge cases that break spreadsheets, midnight reconciliations when something doesn't match.
Gridline handles the whole cycle so you don't have to.
Measured outcomes
Real numbers from the billing workflow running in production
Cycle time
10-30 min
Close a billing cycle in 10–30 minutes per project (demo) vs 1–3 days manual. From bill PDFs to delivered statements with full audit trail.
Exception handling
50-80% fewer
Reduce manual review touches by 50–80%. Only low-confidence parses and rule violations are routed to review — most bills run straight-through.
Artifacts per run
7-12 outputs
Generate 7–12 auditable artifacts per run: bill.pdf, extraction.json, ledger, statement.pdf, invoice, email event, audit log. Every step traced.
See Gridline Platform in action
Community solar billing was our first workflow. Real screens, no mockups.
Built on real operational knowledge
Not just document AI. Domain expertise built into every extraction.
Why not just use a general document tool?
You could run utility bills through any document AI. It'll extract text. Maybe even some numbers.
What it won't do:
- Know that a "community solar credit" isn't the same as a "payment received"
- Understand how allocations work across subscriber classes
- Recognize when a format change is routine vs. when something's actually wrong
- Handle the edge cases that aren't in any training set
We built Gridline on years of community solar billing—not just documents, but the operational knowledge of what matters and what breaks.
That's why most bills process automatically. And why exceptions are actually exceptions, not the norm.
| General Document AI | Gridline | |
|---|---|---|
| Training approach | General-purpose + prompting | Domain-specific training |
| Energy terminology | Learned from prompts | Native understanding |
| Edge case handling | Requires custom rules | Built into model |
| Utility format coverage | Build per customer | 30+ pre-built |
| Human review needed | Frequent | Exception-based only |
| New format adaptation | Days to weeks | Hours |
The difference
What changes when manual processes become automated workflows
Before Gridline
With Gridline
- 2-5 days every month on billing
- Copy-paste from PDFs into spreadsheets
- Manual invoice creation, one by one
- Mistakes caught after invoices sent
- No vacation during billing week
- Billing runs complete in minutes
- Credits extracted automatically from PDFs
- Statements and invoices generated together
- Review flagged items before anything sends
- Full audit trail if anything looks wrong
The universal workflow for energy projects
A six-step pipeline for any energy operations process — from document ingestion to delivery
Ingest
PDFs, forms, emails — any document type
bill.pdf Extract
Fields + tables pulled automatically
parsed_data.json Allocate
Apply rules, splits, rate schedules
allocations.json Generate
Statements, filings, packets
statement.pdf Sync
Create transactions in ERP/CRM/payments
invoice_id Deliver + track
Portal, email, full audit trail
delivered Workflows in detail
Choose a workflow to see how the universal pipeline applies to specific operations
Billing & Allocations →
Interconnection →
Project Finance →
What you get
Built for operations teams who need workflows, not features
Documents processed automatically
Upload PDFs, forms, emails. Gridline extracts data, applies rules, and generates outputs — no copy-paste, no manual data entry.
Human-in-the-loop when needed
Low-confidence extractions get flagged for review. You validate before anything gets delivered.
Full audit trail + reruns
Every workflow run is traceable. See exactly what happened at each step. Re-run any process without starting from scratch.
"We used to spend 3 days every month on billing. Now it runs in under an hour with full audit trails."
"The compliance documentation that used to take weeks to assemble is now generated automatically with source links."
See it run.
Run a complete billing workflow with sample data. No signup. No sales pitch. Just the product.