Pathline Foundry

Turn energy complexity into measurable business value.

Pathline Foundry helps commercial, industrial, institutional, and public-sector organizations identify where energy and money are being lost, determine which opportunities are worth pursuing, and carry the right improvements through implementation and measurable performance.

Independent in the recommendation. Invested in the result.

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Why organizations call Pathline

Three reasons to call. The same engineering underneath.

Whether it's a plant, a commercial building, a school district, or a public facility, the work starts by establishing what's actually happening, and it doesn't stop at the report.

Compliance requirements

“What do we actually have to do?”

You have a compliance deadline. Washington and Oregon require it.

Building performance standards set energy targets with penalties attached, staggered by building size. I start by working out what actually applies to your buildings, then the most rational path to compliance, so you don't pay for work the law doesn't require.

Compliance services

Incentive opportunities

“What funding may be available, and is it worth pursuing?”

There may be money for this. Utility programs sometimes cover part of the work.

Utility programs, including Idaho Power's, may reimburse part of a detailed energy assessment and the upgrades it identifies. I check what your facility may qualify for and whether it changes the economics enough to matter, then handle the applications if it does.

Incentive services

Operating costs and performance

“Are we spending more than we should?”

Your bills keep climbing. You don't need a mandate to stop wasting money.

No deadline and no rebate, just a facility that costs more to run than it should. I establish where the energy and the money are going, rank what's worth fixing, and keep it visible so it stays fixed.

Performance services

What makes Pathline different

Independent in the recommendation. Invested in the result.

Larger providers can design, install, finance, and service. The part that comes first is deciding what deserves investment, why it deserves it, and what should happen before anyone picks an installer or a technology. That's where Pathline works, and it can stay involved through implementation, verification, and monitoring.

What Pathline isn't

An equipment vendor
A contractor looking for a project to build
A software company selling dashboards
An audit firm delivering another report
A compliance box to check

Independent recommendations

Pathline doesn't sell equipment or construction, and I earn nothing on what you buy. The recommendation is what the numbers support, including when they say not to spend.

Aligned partnership

Where a project's economics support it, part of the fee can be tied to the savings or project value the work creates. It's an alignment of incentives, not a guarantee, and not every engagement uses it.

One engineer from assessment through implementation

The engineer who identifies the opportunity stays connected through implementation and performance. There's no handoff to someone who wasn't there.

Software-backed continuity

The work doesn't disappear into a PDF. Purpose-built software helps keep findings, priorities, and performance visible after the assessment.

How Pathline is paid

How Pathline works

See, Quantify, Prioritize, Implement, Verify and Monitor.

Every engagement moves through the same stages in the same order, and not every engagement needs all five.

1
See
Establish what is happening.
2
Quantify
Determine what the opportunity may be worth.
3
Prioritize
Decide what deserves action and what does not.
4
Implement
Carry approved recommendations into action.
5
Verify and Monitor
Evaluate performance and keep it visible over time.

What each stage involves, and what it asks of your team

For the financial decision

Before you invest, know the numbers.

Energy is a cost a business pays every year and never owns anything for. The questions that decide a project are financial ones, and leaving them unanswered has a cost of its own: the same bill again next year. Every engagement is built to answer them for whoever approves the spend.

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What might the engagement cost?

It depends on the facility and the scope. You'll have a defined scope and fee in writing before any work starts.

What may the opportunity be worth?

Each measure is quantified in energy, operating cost, project cost, and payback, with the assumptions stated beside the number.

What incentives or funding may apply?

Funding may be available for eligible projects. Availability, qualification, and approval are determined site by site, so I check what applies before anyone counts on it.

What deserves capital?

Measures ranked by value, so capital goes to the projects that earn it back.

What can be corrected operationally?

Schedules, setpoints, and controls changes are identified separately, because some create savings without any capital at all.

What may not be worth doing?

I'll tell you. A project that doesn't pay its way shouldn't go forward just because an assessment found it.

How is Pathline compensated?

A defined project fee, a recurring fee for ongoing work, or, where the economics support it, a fee partly tied to the value created. That's an alignment of incentives, not a guarantee.

Selected result

Measured against a baseline, and labeled for what it is.

Every result on this site says what kind of evidence it is, so a projection is never read as a measured outcome.

Load forecasting for a natural gas marketer

Measured Result

33%: lower penalty cost per customer, against the three years before
$170,000: lower penalty cost over the 2024 to 2025 year than the baseline rate, normalized for customer count
30 days: from delivery to daily use in the nomination workflow

The full example, from facility to what happened next

Facility type: A natural gas marketer nominating daily gas volumes for hundreds of transport-service customers.
Problem: When a customer's actual use differed from the nominated volume by more than 5%, the marketer paid a penalty on the excess. Earlier forecasting tools, including one from a third-party provider, had not solved it.
Finding: Customer-level forecasts could cut penalized deviation roughly in half against the three years before.
Recommended action: FLOCK, a forecasting and advisement tool giving seven-day recommendations for each customer, built into the daily nomination workflow, with the scheduling team free to adjust any recommendation.
Economics: Over the 2024 to 2025 year, realized penalty costs fell about $170,000 against the 2021 to 2024 baseline, normalized for customer count: a 33% reduction per customer. Following every recommendation without adjustment would have cut penalties by about 49%.
My role, before Pathline: I co-founded smartMFG Solutions, served as its CEO, and built FLOCK.
What happened next: The same discipline, a forecast measured against a stated baseline, is what Pathline brings to facility forecasting and monitoring.

Client described only as a natural gas marketer. Figures from smartMFG Solutions' FLOCK white paper, April 2025.

Qualified Person, WA & OR
Certified Energy Manager
PhD, Chemical Engineering
ORISE iBUILD Research Fellow, Oak Ridge

“Across several projects I've worked on with RT, he has been dependable. Not only could I count on him to deliver on tight timelines, but he also consistently followed up and addressed new issues that arose years after the project was completed.”

Ethan Gallup, smartMFG Solutions LLC and the University of Utah

“Pathline continues to deliver. Working with Pathline has improved our business operation and affected our bottom line. RT is a valuable partner, easy to work with and incredibly effective.”

Noah Ripley, West Ridge Energy

See projects and results

Software-backed continuity

The work doesn't end with a static report.

Purpose-built tools can keep findings, priorities, implementation status, and performance visible after the initial assessment. The software supports direct engineering judgment; it doesn't replace it.

How the tools fit in

Compliance Check

A public tool: enter a building's size and type to see whether Washington or Oregon covers it, when its deadline falls, and what the penalty exposure looks like. The result appears right away, with no account needed.

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Public demonstrations

Walkthroughs of what the software does, on composite and benchmark data. They show the method, not a client's results.

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Client portals

Buildings, findings, priorities, and documents stay in one place your team can open, and forward to whoever approves the spend.

Start with the facility problem, requirement, or decision in front of you.

Pathline will help determine what deserves a closer look and what the next step should be.

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