Paces Agent: Autonomous AI for Accelerated Energy Development

We've all seen the headlines. US energy demand is expected to grow faster than it has in 100 years, powered by data center demand. But the pace of development can't keep up with what the grid actually needs. Projects that should take months take years, and the gap between what gets started and what gets built keeps widening.

This is unacceptable. The buildout ahead is massive, and we are in the early phases of a transformative energy transition. Whether the energy transition actually happens comes down to how fast we can develop projects. From day one, our mission at Paces has been to accelerate energy development. We've built tools to shorten the time between a project concept and a shovel-ready project: site searches that surface viable parcels in seconds, modular due diligence reports, fast power flow studies, and a growing set of automations deployed to help developers pursue winning projects and drop the ones likely to fail.

Until now, development on Paces has been limited by one thing: how fast a person can move through the platform. That changes today.

Introducing Paces Agent: An autonomous AI agent built to orchestrate end-to-end development workflows with expert-verified results. It's designed to 5x your project pipeline and halve the time to shovel-ready projects.

5x your project pipeline with AI-accelerated development

Paces Agent owns the repetitive, time-consuming work that slows development teams down. Market selection, siting, inbound triage, diligence reports, interconnection and permit submissions, pipeline management. These are the workflows that decrease your team's impact for every project that advances and eats time on every project that doesn't.

Paces Agent executes them on your criteria, at machine speed. You define what a good project looks like. The agent finds them, ranks them, conducts due diligence, prepares applications, and surfaces the results for your review. Here's what that looks like in practice:

• Market selection: The agent screens geographies against your investment criteria: capacity targets, interconnection feasibility, land availability, and grid constraints. Markets that don't meet your threshold get eliminated early.
• Greenfield Siting: Viable parcels are identified and ranked automatically, cross-referenced against environmental screens, zoning constraints, and proximity to  infrastructure.
• Site Triage: Incoming site submissions and your existing portfolio are evaluated against your criteria in real time. The agent scores each opportunity and surfaces the ones worth reviewing, so your team isn't drowning in noise.
• Diligence reports: Fast Modular reports are generated from the agent and reviewed by human experts; they cover power, permitting, environmental, and interconnection risk in a single, human validated deliverable.
• Interconnection and permit submissions: Applications are prepared and submitted with humans in the loop, with all required supporting documentation, tracked through the queue, and flagged when responses arrive.
• Pipeline management: Every project in your funnel is tracked against milestones, so nothing stalls silently and capital isn't wasted on projects that stopped making sense weeks ago.

The effect is leverage. The same team can evaluate five times as many opportunities, kill the weak ones earlier, and concentrate their capital and attention on the projects most likely to reach notice to proceed (NTP).

Autonomous end-to-end execution: from siting to notice to proceed

Most AI tools on the market help with fragments of the work. A summary here, a draft email there. Paces Agent is different. It's a true orchestration layer built on top of a full power development funnel from first parcel to final submission and leveraging the world's best development datasets.

You give it an instruction, and it completes the entire workflow, from first input to final deliverable, without needing hand-holding. No copy-pasting between tools. No stitching together outputs from five different products.

The goal of every workflow the agent runs is the same: move a project from blank map to shovel-ready ****in the shortest time possible, with the least capital at risk. Paces Agent compresses development windows by running parallel workflows that previously had to happen sequentially.

This only works because the agent sits atop the industry-leading data platform and workflows we've been building for years. Agents only move projects forward when they're built on proprietary data, industry-specific workflows, and real guardrails. We know that it works; we co-built the Paces Agent with leading customers, and it has been deployed on +3.2GWs of project pipeline already.

Expert-validated results for faster energy due diligence

For high-stakes deliverables like diligence reports, permit applications, and interconnection submissions, speed without accuracy is worthless. Every Paces Agent output is grounded in our trusted, proprietary datasets and, where it matters most, reviewed by our in-house domain experts: power engineers, permitting specialists, and environmental analysts who check the agent's work before it reaches you.

Our engineers built these workflows alongside our solutions engineering team, observing how expert diligence is actually done and translating that process into the product. The agent learned from the people who do this work for a living, and it continues to improve with every report we produce.

This matters especially for power developers and data center developers operating at scale, where a single error in a diligence report or a missed permitting requirement can delay a project by months and cost millions in stranded capital.

What accelerated power development looks like in practice

Paces Agent is the clearest expression yet of where we've been heading from the start: an interface where development teams tell Paces what they want, and the work gets done. Faster origination, diligence, and submissions. The same headcount, a much bigger pipeline, and far less capital wasted on projects that were never going to make it.

The infrastructure that powers the next decade of AI, manufacturing, and electrification is waiting to be built. Paces Agent is how we build it faster.

Ready to see it in action? Request a demo to talk to our team.

Frequently asked questions

What is Paces Agent? Paces Agent is an autonomous AI agent that orchestrates end-to-end energy development workflows, including market selection, siting, due diligence, interconnection, and permit submissions, from a single instruction, with expert-validated outputs. It is built on Paces' proprietary datasets and reviewed by in-house power engineers and permitting specialists before delivery.

How does Paces Agent differ from other AI tools for energy development? Most AI tools handle fragments of a workflow: a summary, a drafted document, a data lookup. Paces Agent runs complete workflows from start to finish. It automates the workflow for renewable energy projects across the entire development funnel: from market screening through due diligence to permit submission, without manual handoffs between steps or tools. That's only possible because it's built on an industry-specific data platform with years of proprietary workflow logic underneath it.

What does accelerated development mean in practice? Accelerated development means compressing the timeline from initial site screening to shovel-ready or notice to proceed (NTP). Paces Agent does this by running market selection, siting, diligence, and permitting workflows at machine speed, in parallel, not in sequence, so the same development team can pursue five times the pipeline with the same headcount and significantly less capital at risk.

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