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Today Inc. magazine published a feature story about Overstory’s journey since the company was founded in 2018 by Indra den Bakker and Anniek Schouten. It tells the story of their vision and determination in those early days, and how that crucial foundation is such a big part of our success. Today we serve six of the ten largest electric utilities in North America, and we’ve trained our models on millions of miles of power lines and billions of trees. And we’re just getting started. I am so fortunate to be able to lead this wonderful team with such an important mission: preventing power outages and wildfires to keep communities safe. https://bit.ly/4zdcybY

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Today, Overstory launched its new grid risk management platform. This integrated platform connects Overstory’s AI-powered risk models to core utility systems to help utilities prevent outages, prepare for storms, and stop catastrophic wildfires. Utilities know their networks intimately but have struggled to understand the dynamic natural world around them. For too long, understanding the risks relating to extreme weather, wildfire, and vegetation has meant wrestling with dozens of fragmented systems. With this launch, Overstory is now bringing the grid and the environment around it into one clear view, giving utility leaders the foresight to anticipate threats and the confidence to act on it. Thank you to the utilities that have shaped this platform, and to the passionate Overstorians who are committed to building a more resilient grid that can deliver safe, affordable power in our fast-changing world.

Today, we’re launching Overstory’s grid risk management platform, one living model of nature and network to help utilities prevent outages, prepare for storms, and stop catastrophic wildfires. Connect every signal. Model any scenario. Reduce more risk with every investment. This is a new vision for grid resilience: a grid strong enough to power progress, protect communities, and withstand a changing world.

So proud of what our team at Overstory launched today: a grid risk management platform to help utilities prevent outages, prepare for storms, and stop catastrophic wildfires. Utilities know their networks incredibly well. But understanding how changing vegetation, fuels, and weather threaten those networks is harder. They have more data than ever, yet critical information sits in separate systems. As risks rise and budgets tighten, they need to know where to act first and how much risk each dollar will reduce. Our platform brings nature and network into one view, connected to the systems utilities already use. Teams can anticipate threats, compare mitigation options, send priority work to crews, and track the risk removed. Tomorrow at Red Sky Summit, I’ll sit down with Andrew Abranches of PG&E and Scott Bordenkircher of APS to talk about what utilities need from the next generation of wildfire technology and our new vision for grid resilience. If you'll be at Red Sky, come join the discussion!

How can we build a more resilient grid while keeping power affordable? That was the question Dick Garlish from Rocky Mountain Power and I discussed this week at Grid Forward. Here’s what I’m taking with me: 🎯 Precision matters. Better data helps utilities put every dollar where it can reduce the most risk. 🛡️ Prevention is cheaper than reaction. The more we can anticipate risk and act before an outage, storm or wildfire, the better able we are to keep communities safe. 🌎 You need the full picture. Vegetation, asset condition, weather, wildfire exposure, consequence and spend can’t all live in separate silos. The question we should be asking isn’t just, “How much are we spending?” It’s “Are we reducing the most risk for every dollar we spend?” Proud to be here with the Overstory team to have some meaningful and productive conversations with utilities this week. Thank you to Bryce Yonker and the Grid Forward team for a great gathering!