If you're running RFPs through a procurement marketplace today, you have procurement covered. What you don't have is a year-round reason for clients to keep your number on speed-dial. Gridient gives you the same auction infrastructure plus the rest of the energy stack — efficiency program enrollment, sustainability sourcing, and a client-facing transparency portal under your firm's brand.
Most brokerages run procurement well — that's the table stakes. The hard part isn't the RFP. It's everything that happens between contract execution and renewal. That's where the relationship either compounds into something a competitor can't unseat, or evaporates into a rate-shopping race to the bottom. The marketplaces you use today are built for the procurement event. They aren't built for the 35 months in between.
You win on rate, lock the contract, send the confirmation. Then you go quiet for 36 months until renewal season. The client forgets which broker they used. The next firm with a marginally better rate steals the renewal. The relationship was just the rate.
Marketplaces serve the procurement event, not the client. When your client wants to see their portfolio, expirations, or market position, there's no place under YOUR brand to send them. They go to an aggregator app, email you for screenshots, or just don't bother. You're invisible between renewals.
Procurement margins are getting thinner. Suppliers pay less. Customers know more. The model that worked five years ago is harder math today. You have the relationships, the licenses, the data — you just don't have a platform for selling anything besides supply contracts.
Gridient doesn't replace what you do. It surrounds it. The procurement workflow stays familiar — RFPs, supplier quotes, awards, renewals — but the workspace stays open between events, and the client sees a portal under your brand instead of a marketplace logo.
Switchboard runs supplier auctions the way modern procurement marketplaces do — same RFP structure, same supplier network access, same award workflow. You change vendors, not playbooks. Then it stays open. The client book, contracts, renewals, intel — all in one place.
Beacon is the white-labeled transparency window your clients have been asking for. They log in to YOUR site, see THEIR portfolio in YOUR branding. You stop being the contract guy and become the energy advisor of record.
Efficiency rebate enrollment, REC sourcing, sustainability reporting — Gridient roadmap modules layer onto Switchboard. Same client relationship, expanded service, healthier margins than supply alone. Same brokerage, more revenue lines.
Two products live today. Two more in active build. Then the horizon. Each piece extends the same client relationship into a new revenue line — without changing the workflow you already know.
The console for everything you do today: client book, RFPs, supplier quotes, award workflow, renewals. Built for brokers, not by suppliers — the workflow matches how you actually run the desk.
Real-time client portfolios under your brand. Contract expirations, market context, sustainability metrics. Login at YOUR domain. Your firm becomes the transparent partner; rate-shopping competitors look opaque by comparison.
Clients see your firm — your name, your domain, your colors. Gridient is the engine, not the brand. We don't pitch your clients, market to them, or compete with you. We're infrastructure.
Today: Beacon and Switchboard live. Coming: Ledger (commission reconciliation against supplier reports), Linework (LOA & contract generation). Plus horizon modules for efficiency, sustainability, demand response, and distributed energy.
If procurement is the front door to your client relationships, Gridient is the rest of the house. Let's talk about what your current marketplace doesn't give you.
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