Decision intelligence for energy sovereignty™

Turn energy complexity into decisions you can defend.

Connect utility costs, emissions accountability, and distributed-energy planning in one traceable decision platform.

Built for portfolio-scale energy, sustainability, and operational decision-makers.

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Connected energy decision map Utility cost, emissions, and distributed-energy design signals converge into a traceable decision record.
One decision platform

Three products. One connected decision system.

Start with utility-cost control, emissions accountability, or distributed-energy planning, then connect the intelligence as operating and capital decisions converge.

Products

Products and pricing

Technical and financial designs

DERLabsIQ

Distributed-energy planning, finance, and conceptual design

Turn site, load, tariff, resilience, emissions, and capital constraints into a bankable decision-ready DER concept in minutes instead of months.

  • Site-specific DER configurations and technology screening
  • Lifecycle cash flow, NPV, IRR, incentives, and ownership cases
  • Traceable assumptions and code-aware conceptual outputs
High-level summary
Free high-level summary report
Conceptual analysis
$15,000 30% conceptual analysis
GHG intelligence

EmissionCheckIQ+

Compliance, carbon accounting, and reduction planning

Convert energy and operating data into auditable emissions reporting, compliance forecasts, penalty exposure, and executive-ready dashboards.

  • Scope 1, 2, and 3 tracking with transparent data quality
  • Compliance forecasting and penalty exposure in dollars
  • Prioritized reduction pathways linked to efficiency and DER
Subscription
$200/month Cancel anytime · enterprise-ready facility intelligence
Utility intelligence

UtilityCheckIQ+

Bill verification, tariff analysis, and budget control

Give finance and operations continuous visibility into billing accuracy, tariff exposure, budget variance, demand charges, and savings opportunities.

  • Automated invoice validation and anomaly detection
  • Tariff, rider, demand-charge, and contract intelligence
  • Budget forecasts and DER opportunity signals
Subscription
$100/meter/month Cancel anytime · individual facilities or bundled portfolios
Start with one product. Connect all three when you are ready.Direct purchase pathPortfolio-readyAuditable outputs
One decision platform

Turn operating evidence into an infrastructure decision you can defend.

8X connects recurring utility and emissions evidence to a deliberate capital workflow—so every scenario inherits the same verified starting point.

Stage 01 · Verify operating signals

UtilityCheckIQ+

Validate bills, tariffs, demand, and budgets to establish the recurring cost signal.

EmissionCheckIQ+

Quantify emissions sources, data quality, compliance exposure, and reduction requirements.

DERLabsIQ decision engine

Build the baseline, compare the paths, preserve the rationale.

Verified operating signals stay connected to every assumption, option, and output.

  1. Stage 02 · Build a connected baseline
    Connect cost, carbon, technical, resilience, and timing assumptions in one operating baseline.
  2. Stage 03 · Compare infrastructure paths
    Screen technology and configuration fit, ownership structures, incentives, and lifecycle economics.
  3. Stage 04 · Preserve the decision record
    Issue an auditable basis of decision with scenario comparison, 30% conceptual direction, resilience impacts, and deployment sequencing.
Read left to right on wide screens and top to bottom on smaller screens. Every infrastructure path is judged against the same verified operating baseline, so tradeoffs remain traceable.
Buying & onboarding

A governed path from evaluation to onboarding.

Enterprise adoption works best when each decision, input and handoff has a named owner. This journey separates customer responsibilities from 8X responsibilities before onboarding begins.

  1. Evaluate fit

    Customer: Define the decision question, portfolio scope and internal owner.
    8X: Map the request to the applicable product or evaluation path and state the required inputs.
    Ready when: Scope, ownership and evidence requirements are explicit.

  2. Prepare approved inputs

    Customer: Provide the agreed source material or approved access under the organization's policies.
    8X: Inventory the available inputs and separate verified facts from gaps and assumptions.
    Ready when: Provenance, permissions and known gaps are visible.

  3. Approve the path

    Customer: Review the decision record with the people accountable for the selected path.
    8X: Present the traceable basis of decision and clarify prerequisites and unresolved items.
    Ready when: The selected path and next responsible party are documented.

  4. Begin controlled onboarding

    Customer: Name the access, operational and governance owners for the selected product or engagement.
    8X: Carry the approved scope, inputs and decision context into the applicable handoff.
    Ready when: The product or engagement, owners, inputs and access responsibilities are recorded.

Why 8X

Distributed-energy decisions with the evidence kept in view.

8X structures operating signals, infrastructure assumptions, and readiness conditions into a documented decision path.

  1. Operating baseline first

    Utility and emissions signals form the baseline before infrastructure paths are compared.

  2. Tradeoffs stay visible

    Cost, carbon, technical, resilience, timing, ownership, incentive, and lifecycle assumptions remain explicit.

  3. Preserve the basis of decision

    Alternatives, conceptual direction, rationale, and sequencing stay together in the decision record.

  4. Readiness has an owner

    Customer inputs, 8X responsibilities, and the condition for advancing are identified before onboarding begins.

Next step

Bring us the energy decision your team needs to resolve.

Arrange a demonstration for your facility, portfolio, or client program. Subscription checkout is not available from this page.

Insights

Distributed-energy decisions worth examining.

Research priorities at the intersection of operating evidence, infrastructure design, and capital deployment.

Topics

  1. DER predevelopment
  2. Capital deployment
  3. Utility strategy
  4. Emissions risk

Leadership

The people accountable for the work.

Company roles spanning energy, technology, legal, operations, finance, and automation.

  • John Bradley Dukes

    John Bradley Dukes

    CEO & Co-Founder

  • Babi Das

    Babi Das

    CTO & Co-Founder

  • Patrick (Scott) Alban

    Patrick (Scott) Alban

    Chief Counsel

  • Michelle Dukes

    Michelle Dukes

    VP of Operations

  • Tracy Das

    Tracy Das

    Controller

  • Robert Booth

    Robert Booth

    AI Automation Advisor

Leadership

Review the full leadership team.

View company roles and profiles on the leadership page.