Large companies in critical industries like utilities, energy, and real estate should be well positioned to benefit from recent advancements in AI, including LLMs and generative AI. These organizations have massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, complex multi-stakeholder processes, considerable reporting requirements, and increasing pressures to reduce costs: all problems and workflows that AI is especially well suited to solve. And executives know this – in an IBM Institute for Business Value survey, 88% of utility executives say the technology will deliver a measurable competitive advantage. 

At the same time, these same companies are also often terrible candidates for many off-the-shelf AI solutions. They have rigorous data privacy and security requirements, siloed data and budgets, and require solutions that provide explainable and always accurate outputs. When organizations attempt to build AI solutions internally, they commonly find that they’re dedicating resources to re-inventing the wheel and while also facing a highly competitive market for hiring AI-talent. 

AZX delivers tailored AI solutions for utilities, energy companies, real estate, and other critical industries. They work from strategy through transformation, allowing large organizations to realize the benefits of applying cutting-edge AI advancements across disconnected internal data sets and workflows.

Utilities, REITs, and other critical industries need comprehensive, tailored AI workflow solutions built for their reality

• Data silos and cybersecurity requirements that are critical guardrails for utilities and other critical industries often flummox generic enterprise AI implementers and off-the-shelf solution providers, particularly when designing for complex, multistakeholder processes. 

• Successfully evaluating and procuring AI solutions for even limited applications is increasingly challenging. Not only has our research found that teams are fatigued by disconnected point solutions, but Gartner (which predicts that 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027) highlights the prevalence of “agent washing” – the rebranding of existing products, such as AI assistants, robotic process automation (RPA) and chatbots, without substantial agentic capabilities.

• When companies turn in house to build solutions, they find themselves wading into a very crowded hiring market. Aura Intelligence found that AI-related job postings more than doubled between January and April 2025, before leveling off slightly. 

AZX gives customers a viable pathway to AI solutions built specifically for them

• AZX brings a team of seasoned industry experts who are not only AI experts but also have deep sector expertise. This allows them to quickly build trust, rapidly identify opportunities to create value, and work effectively with a customer’s internal teams. 

• AZX can begin the process with a customer as early as strategic AI consulting, helping customers’ leadership teams develop a comprehensive AI strategy for the organization. 

• AZX uses a forward-deployed engineering model in which software engineers are directly embedded with customers to create and implement AI products and workflows within the customer’s ecosystem to execute on that strategy. 

• Finally, AZX becomes the trusted partner to maintain, update, and expand the solutions it has created over time. 

• Because the challenges faced by AZX’s customers are similar, their early work will result in the development of core building blocks or “recipes” that can be re-used across multiple clients. This speeds up development and deployment across their customers while reducing risks. 

  
  

Powerhouse Ventures is proud to join AZX’s $6M Pre Seed round alongside Sustainable Future Ventures, Founders Co-op, Stepchange, KOMPAS and AI2 Incubator. We look forward to working with CEO Aaron Goldfeder, CTO Richard Evans, Michael Albrecht, COO and the entire AZX team to help critical industries adopt transformative AI solutions.

Special thanks to Gabe Cuadra, Principal.