Co-Founder PowerOpsHQ

Co-Founder — PowerOpsHQ

Every alarm investigated. Every action validated. Every megawatt protected.

Company: PowerOpsHQ (A Foundery venture)

Product PowerOps IQ

Location United States (Remote)

Type Founder / Co-Founder — full-time

Start date ASAP

Equity Up to 45% (milestone- and vesting-based)

Compensation

$11,000 stipend across the first three months, with 5% equity allocated on reaching $5,000 MRR.After the first paying customer, a pre agreed salary of $80,000 to $120,000 per year and a defined path to 45% ownership. Vesting and related terms are agreed in the Co-Founder agreement.

This position is independent of A Foundery's Founder-in-Residence program.

The Opportunity in One Line

We are looking for a commercial founder to build the customer and revenue engine around a deployment-ready AI-agentic monitoring product that is already monitoring 8 GW of renewable assets across the globe. The technology is built. The remote operations team is in place. Your job is to win customers and grow the business.

About A Foundery

A Foundery is a profit-led venture studio that partners with operators to build cash-positive companies through focused execution. We don't chase valuation — we build businesses that fund themselves.

We provide the backbone so you can concentrate on customers, revenue and growth:

• Funding
• Shared technology
• Operations, finance, legal and HR support
• Marketing support

You run the Commercial Company — customers, sales, revenue.

A Foundery runs the Delivery engine — technology, remote operations, finance, legal and HR. Together we build one company.

The Market Problem

Solar and wind asset owners have invested heavily in SCADA, DAS and monitoring platforms. These systems generate thousands of alarms and operating signals — but they do not complete the operational work.

Asset-management teams must still determine:

• Which alarms represent real production loss
• What equipment is affected
• How much generation and revenue are at risk
• Which incident should be handled first
• What action the field team should take
• Whether production recovered after intervention

As renewable portfolios grow, owners typically respond by adding more monitoring personnel. Costs rise with every site while engineers spend valuable time reviewing repetitive alarms, moving between disconnected systems and preparing manual escalation reports.

Existing software provides more screens and notifications. It rarely takes accountability for investigating an event, validating the response and following it through to resolution.

What We Are Building

PowerOpsHQ is an AI-enabled, human-validated remote operations center for solar and wind assets.

Our product, PowerOps IQ, is a fully developed, deployment-ready AI-agentic monitoring system already monitoring 8 GW of power assets worldwide. It connects to the asset owner's existing monitoring environment — no expensive SCADA replacement required.

Specialized AI agents work every event, continuously:

Sentinel Monitors equipment and production signals around the clock

Investigator Correlates related alarms, removes duplicate noise, assembles probable root cause

Impact Estimates production and revenue exposure to prioritize what matters

Dispatch Prepares a field-ready action with affected asset, evidence and next step

Recovery Tracks the event through restoration and updates the operating playbook

A PowerOpsHQ operations engineer validates consequential findings before escalation. The customer's field team receives a prioritized action with the affected asset, supporting evidence and a recommended next step — not another raw alarm.

Technology development and remote monitoring operations are handled by the PowerOpsHQ supporting team. The Co-Founder's responsibility is to win customers and grow the business.

The Value We Sell

PowerOpsHQ is not selling another monitoring platform. We sell a managed operating outcome: fewer unresolved events, faster response and better-performing assets.

For renewable asset owners, that means:

• Lower cost of continuously monitoring growing portfolios
• Production-impacting issues found earlier
• Less repetitive manual alarm investigation
• More effective use of experienced engineers
• Clearer, prioritized work for field teams
• Fewer avoidable or poorly prepared dispatches
• Improved response and restoration time
• An auditable record from detection through closure
• Protected renewable-energy production and revenue

Commercial model: a low fixed monitoring fee plus an agreed variable component tied to measurable service outcomes and production protection. We win when your assets win.

The Unfair Advantage

You don't start from zero. You start with:

• ✅ A deployment-ready AI-agentic monitoring product
• ✅ Technical and integration support
• ✅ A supporting remote operations team
• ✅ Human validation workflows
• ✅ A defined managed-service model
• ✅ A Foundery's shared company-building infrastructure
• ✅ A technology ecosystem with experience monitoring ~8 GW across Europe and Asia

The immediate challenge is commercial execution — not developing the technology.

Jobs to Be Done

As Co-Founder, you own the complete customer and revenue function.

Define the wedge — Select the solar or wind asset-owner segment most likely to adopt PowerOpsHQ first.

Build the pipeline — Create relationships with IPPs, infrastructure funds, asset managers and O&M providers.

Win the first customers — Lead discovery, demonstrations, proposals, negotiations and paid pilots.

Own onboarding — Coordinate customer, technology and operations teams from contract signing through service activation.

Prove the value — Ensure every pilot demonstrates clear operating and commercial outcomes.

Convert and expand — Turn pilots into recurring contracts and grow across additional sites and portfolios.

Own customer success — Maintain executive relationships, resolve concerns and protect retention.

Build the commercial engine — Establish repeatable prospecting, sales, onboarding, account-management and revenue-reporting processes.

Your Ideal Experience

We are not looking for a technical Co-founder or software developer.

You are a commercial leader who:

• Has relationships within the solar, wind or renewable-infrastructure market
• Can reach asset owners, IPPs, infrastructure funds, asset managers or O&M providers
• Has experience in enterprise prospecting and consultative sales
• Can convert a pilot into a multi-site commercial contract
• Understands customer onboarding and customer success
• Can sell measurable operating value rather than software features
• Takes founder-level responsibility for revenue and customer relationships

Most importantly, you are motivated to build the commercial company around a ready-to-deploy product and establish PowerOpsHQ as the trusted remote operations partner for renewable asset owners.

The Offer

Phase 1, Incubation (first 3 months). An $11,000 stipend while you validate the wedge, build the pipeline and close the first customers.

First equity milestone. 5% ownership allocated on reaching $5,000 MRR. You earn equity by putting revenue on the board, not by signing a document.

Phase 2, After the first paying customer. A pre-agreed salary of $80,000 to $120,000 per year, set against revenue, cash flow, scope and performance.

Long-term ownership. A defined path to 45% of LedgerOpsAi, subject to agreed milestones and continued contribution. Vesting, transfer and governance terms are settled in the formal Co-Founder agreement.

Why Now

Renewable portfolios are growing faster than the teams monitoring them. Every new site adds alarms, screens and manual escalation work and owners are running out of ways to scale headcount against it. At the same time, asset owners are done buying more dashboards; they want accountability, prioritized action and protected production, not another notification feed. AI-agentic operations have matured to the point where this is finally deliverable and PowerOps IQ is already doing it across 8 GW. The product is built and proven.

The Co-Founder's job is to reach the market first, win its trust, and establish PowerOpsHQ as the trusted remote operations partner before someone else does.

How to Apply. Apply here →

Learn more:

• PowerOpsHQ — poweropshq.com
• A Foundery — afoundery.com

PowerOpsHQ is a venture built through A Foundery's studio model. We build cash-positive businesses through focused, repeatable execution and real value creation.