Industries · Energy & utilities
Autonomy at grid scale - with NERC-grade boundaries.
Generation, transmission, retail, and trading desks are deploying autonomous AI faster than regulators can write the rules. Hootleash is being designed to give operators, traders, and CISOs a single source of truth for every autonomous decision the grid makes.
Where we're focused
Autonomous workflows we want to govern first in energy & utilities.
The first release of Hootleash is being engineered around a deliberately narrow set of high-risk autonomous workflows - chosen with our design partners.
Autonomous dispatch
Default-deny on cross-region exports, ancillary-service stacking errors, and unapproved demand-response curves.
VPP & DER orchestration
Constrain autonomous battery, EV, and rooftop coordination with consequence-aware exposure caps.
Power & gas trading
Pre-trade VaR on energy futures, with hour-ahead and day-ahead stop-loss bands enforced inline.
Outage & restoration agents
Govern autonomous switching with hardware-isolated kill paths and forensic-grade event capture.
OT cybersecurity policy
Inline policy for any control-room copilot. Block prompt-injection and unauthorised tool use at the protocol layer.
Nuclear & critical asset AI
Hardware-isolated, air-gapped enforcement for AI advisors near safety-rated systems.
Regulations & frameworks
Built against the standards your auditors live in.
NERC CIP
Critical Infrastructure Protection
CIP-002 to CIP-014 evidence - cross-walked.
ISO/IEC 42001
AI management system
Implementation guide for energy and utilities.
NIS2 Directive
EU network and information security
Incident reporting and supply-chain risk evidence.
EU AI Act
High-risk infrastructure AI
Annex III obligations and post-market monitoring.
FERC / NRC Order 851
Cyber adequacy
Continuous attestation for licensed entities.
IEC 62443
Industrial cybersecurity
Conduits, zones, and security levels native to the model.
Design partner program
Want to shape how Hootleash works in energy & utilities?
We're working with a small cohort of design partners through 2026 - risk, security, and AI leaders willing to trade input for influence over the first release. If that's you, get in touch.
- Co-design hardware-isolated halt paths for outage and switching agents
- Early access to the energy-trading risk model
- Working drafts of NERC CIP and ISO 42001 evidence templates
- Direct line to our regulatory team for NIS2 and EU AI Act preparation
Ready when you are
Put your energy & utilities autonomous workflows on a leash, before everyone else does.
We're building Hootleash in private design partnership with a small number of regulated enterprises. If you run autonomous AI in production, get in touch.
Pre-launch · design partner program open · early access 2026