Pilot Energy Accelerates Energy Purchasing Decisions with a Cloud-Native Analytics Platform on AWS

Pilot Energy’s advisory business relied on deep domain expertise to model energy consumption, evaluate supplier offers, and simulate purchasing strategies for large commercial and public-sector customers. As the firm grew, its core advisory workflow became increasingly constrained by a legacy process.

Generating a complex purchasing recommendation for a single customer could take up to four hours, limiting throughput and slowing decision-making in fast-moving energy markets.

Key challenges included:

• Single Point of Failure: Critical logic lived in a single spreadsheet understood by only one senior advisor.
• Slow Turnaround: Long analysis cycles reduced the number of clients advisors could support.
• Operational Risk: anual data entry and complex formulas increased the risk of costly errors.
• Growth Constraints: The workflow did not scale to additional advisors or higher client volume.