Example projectWeb appAIOpen-source model
Renewable fleet monitoring
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
An independent power producer watches its sites in each maker's portal, finds underperformance at month end, and its technicians search old work orders for how a fault was fixed.
// What we would build
One monitoring dashboard that reads every site through the makers' APIs, compares output with what the weather says it should be, and an assistant on an open-source model hosted in the producer's cloud that answers from manuals and past work orders, citing them.
// What is in it
- Inverters, turbines and battery systems read through their makers' APIs
- Expected output from irradiance and wind data, with gaps flagged daily
- Alarms grouped by site and cause, not one email per fault
- An assistant that answers from manuals and work orders and cites them
- An open-source model served on GPUs in your own cloud account
// Stack
- Next.js
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB
- Python
- Llama or Mistral (open-source)
- vLLM
- DigitalOcean GPU
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$127,000 to US$194,000, delivered within 23 weeksCAD 180,900 to 276,400
- Hosting
- ≈ US$4,530 a monthCAD 6,450 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$2,500 a monthCAD 3,565 a month
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
- AI route
- Open-source model
- Model running cost
- ≈ US$4,190 a monthCAD 5,960 a month
Timeline by milestone
- Discovery
- 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Specification and evaluation plan
- 0.4 weeks
- Design approved
- 2.9 to 5.4 weeks
- Core features
- 1.4 to 1.9 weeks
- Full build
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Working pilot
- 3.9 to 6.4 weeks
- Testing and fixes
- 0.9 to 1.9 weeks
- Launch
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Production
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
Outside our hands, and added to the calendar
- API keys from each maker or the SCADA owner
- 1 to 4 weeks
How it is paid
- Deposit 20%
- CAD 36,120 to 55,220
- Discovery 2%
- CAD 3,612 to 5,522
- Specification and evaluation plan 10.3%
- CAD 18,601.80 to 28,438.30
- Design approved 2%
- CAD 3,612 to 5,522
- Core features 6%
- CAD 10,836 to 16,566
- Full build 4%
- CAD 7,224 to 11,044
- Working pilot 31.1%
- CAD 56,166.60 to 85,867.10
- Testing and fixes 2%
- CAD 3,612 to 5,522
- Launch 2%
- CAD 3,612 to 5,522
- Production 10.6%
- CAD 19,143.60 to 29,266.60
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 18,060 to 27,610
- GPU time for training and testing, at cost
- CAD 300. Billed up front, at cost, outside the milestones