Property managers, CPAs, association executives, business consultants — if you serve commercial clients but you're not in the energy business, here's the model: you bring the client relationship. We run all the procurement, efficiency, and sustainability work under your brand. You keep a recurring revenue share. No energy expertise required, no operational rebuild, no hiring.
Every commercial client you serve is signing electricity contracts somewhere, claiming rebates somewhere (or failing to), reporting sustainability somewhere. None of it is in your value chain. The dollars and the trust are both flowing past your firm to specialists who don't have the relationship you do — and the value you could be capturing is being captured by people you'd never need to refer to if you had a way to do it yourself.
Every commercial client signs supply contracts somewhere, claims rebates somewhere (or fails to), reports sustainability somewhere. None of it is in your value chain. The recurring dollars and the relationship credit both walk past you.
Energy procurement, efficiency, and sustainability all require domain expertise, supplier relationships, and infrastructure that takes years to build. Telling clients "we also do energy now" doesn't work if there's no depth behind it. The credibility cost of being shallow is higher than the revenue upside.
You CAN refer clients to a broker. Most advisory firms do. But referral revenue is one-time, the relationship hands off, and the client now sees that broker as their energy person — not you. Next time energy comes up, they call the broker, not your firm.
Gridient is the back-office; your firm is the front. Procurement, efficiency, and sustainability work happens through Gridient's workflow and partner network — but the client only sees your branded portal, your firm's name, your relationship. The opposite of a referral hand-off.
Beacon and Switchboard wear your firm's name and domain. Clients see YOUR portal for energy. The work happens because Gridient is the engine, but the relationship — and the brand equity — accrues to you. The opposite of a referral hand-off.
We staff the procurement RFPs, the efficiency assessments, the rebate paperwork, the REC sourcing, the sustainability reporting. Every operational touchpoint runs through Gridient's team under your firm's brand. Your only job is the client relationship — the one you already have.
Procurement commissions are recurring and per-kWh. Efficiency, sustainability, and demand-side fees attach to the same client. You collect a meaningful share of every revenue line your clients sign — no linear staffing. The margin compounds with the relationship instead of paying out once and disappearing.
Beacon is what your clients see. Switchboard is where the work runs. Operating partners deliver expertise where you don't have it in-house. The model fits whether you're a property management firm, a CPA practice, an association serving members, or a B2B consultancy.
Your clients see THEIR portfolio in YOUR branded portal — contracts, expirations, market position, sustainability metrics. They never have to know that Gridient is underneath. As far as they're concerned, energy is a service your firm offers.
All procurement workflows, RFPs, supplier negotiations, and renewals run through Switchboard — operated by the Gridient team. The mechanics happen here; the client sees only outputs from your branded portal. The engine is invisible.
The Gridient operations team executes every part of the energy services line — RFPs, efficiency project scoping, rebate filings, sustainability reporting, vendor coordination. You don't run an energy desk; we run it. Your team keeps doing what they're great at.
Standard referral arrangements pay one-time, then the relationship migrates to whoever delivered. Gridient's model is recurring revenue share that stays with your firm because the client never sees us. A service line that compounds, not a finder's fee.
You bring the clients. We do the work. You collect the share. Let's talk about what that looks like inside your firm.
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