Private beta · Retail chains
AI agents that watch every RTU + walk-in fridge in your chain. Designed to cut HVAC bills 10-20%. Per-store benchmarking out of the box.
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designed chain energy reduction
with per-store attribution
1 pane
every store, every alarm
from 50 stores to 5,000
ESG-ready
LL97 + ASHRAE rollup
compliance evidence built in
Three modes — autonomous leads here
Primary for this page
Reads every RTU + refrigeration case. Adjusts setpoints against opening hours + weather + utility tariff.
Regional ops asks: 'which store is over-running?' Copilot ranks + recommends.
Plug into your existing data lake or BI via MCP.
Retail chain HVAC
HVAC AI Agents normalize mixed-brand HVAC telemetry across hundreds or thousands of retail sites — QSR, c-store, mall anchor — so ops directors get a live energy benchmark per site, franchisors can enforce setback policies with an audit trail, and outlier-cost stores surface automatically within one day.
Running HVAC across a large retail chain means inheriting whatever brands the previous tenant, the franchisor, or the local contractor installed. One district has Lennox rooftop units; the next has Carrier. A newly acquired banner runs Trane. Each brand has its own cloud portal, its own alarm thresholds, and its own idea of what a setpoint means. The result is that chain-level energy analysis requires someone to manually reconcile four exports before the monthly ops review — and off-hours setback compliance is essentially unknown.
HVAC AI Agents normalize all of that into a single telemetry stream. Energy consumption, equipment runtime, supply air temperature, and setpoint adherence are mapped to a common schema regardless of brand. kWh/sqft rolls up by store, by district, and by banner in real time. Outlier sites — stores spending 30% more per square foot than their peer cohort — are ranked and surfaced automatically, so the asset manager isn't hunting through spreadsheets to find where the money is going.
For franchisors, the agent adds a compliance layer on top of the energy view. Setback schedules are defined once at the brand level; per-site adherence is tracked continuously. When a franchisee overrides a setback, the override is logged with the timestamp, the user, and the duration. The franchisor compliance lead gets a scorecard view — percent of sites in policy, percent of override hours by district — without needing to audit each site individually. Integration covers chain-grade controls including BAYweb, Ecobee SmartBuildings, Schneider EcoStruxure, and Honeywell Niagara, as well as the equipment brands already in the field.
Where it pays off
Four patterns we see repeatedly across QSR chains, c-store franchisors, and mall portfolio teams.
Multi-region ops director
2,000 sites across four banners, three HVAC brands, and two control platforms. Monthly energy reporting requires a manual consolidation spreadsheet. No unified view of which district is overspending.
→ One live dashboard with kWh/sqft by store, district, and banner. Outlier sites ranked daily. Monthly energy report generates itself from the same data stream.
Single energy view across 2,000 sites
Franchisor compliance lead
Setback policy is written in the franchise agreement, but enforcement is impossible — each franchisee controls their own thermostat. Compliance is self-reported. Overrides are invisible to the brand team.
→ Setback adherence tracked continuously per site. Every franchisee override is logged with timestamp, user, and duration. Compliance scorecard shows percent of sites in policy by district without manual auditing.
% sites in setback policy, visible in real time
Asset manager
Monthly energy cost review flags three high-spend sites, but identifying whether the cause is equipment fault, scheduling error, or occupancy anomaly takes a week of back-and-forth with the regional FM.
→ Each outlier site arrives with a ranked cause list — runtime anomaly, setback gap, or unit efficiency flag — so the asset manager can triage and assign work orders the same day the report runs.
Outlier cause identified same day
Mall/anchor portfolio manager
Tenant comfort complaints spike in summer. Chargeback math for HVAC is disputed every quarter because there's no per-zone runtime record. Both problems require manual BMS exports and a spreadsheet.
→ Per-zone runtime and setpoint adherence logged continuously. Comfort complaints cross-referenced with zone temperature records to validate or dispute. Chargeback reports export directly from the same data.
Dispute-ready chargeback records on demand
FAQ
Yes. The agent normalizes telemetry from every site into a common schema regardless of equipment brand or control platform. kWh/sqft, setpoint adherence, and runtime roll up by store, district, and banner in real time. Deployments of 500–3,000 sites are in production. The rollout is incremental — you can start with a single district, validate the data quality, then expand chain-wide without touching the sites you've already onboarded. Contact us to walk through the architecture for your specific mix of brands and controllers.
The agent has production integrations for Lennox, Carrier, Trane, Daikin, Mitsubishi, and Goodman rooftop and split systems. Each brand's telemetry — supply air temperature, runtime, setpoint, fault codes — is mapped to a common schema on ingest. That means a Lennox site in Texas and a Carrier site in Ohio contribute to the same district energy rollup without any manual reconciliation. Coverage details and model-level support status are at /coverage.
Every override is logged: timestamp, site ID, user or thermostat credential, and duration. The franchisor compliance view shows override frequency by site and district, so you can see which franchisees are systematically bypassing setback policy versus which ones had a one-off event. Override alerts can be configured to notify the regional FM in real time or batched into a daily digest. The audit trail is exportable for franchise agreement enforcement discussions. Start with a pilot district to validate the data before chain-wide rollout.
Yes. The agent integrates with BAYweb, Ecobee SmartBuildings, Schneider EcoStruxure, and Honeywell Niagara (JCI-flavored and standard) over their standard APIs and BACnet interfaces. Integration is read-only by default; setback write-back is opt-in per site with a configurable safety floor on setpoints. If your chain uses a mix — some corporate sites on Niagara, franchise locations on BAYweb — both can feed the same chain-level view. Contact us with your control platform mix and we'll map the integration path.
The agent builds a peer cohort for each site based on square footage, climate zone, and operating hours. Sites are ranked daily by deviation from their cohort's median kWh/sqft. A site that's 25% above cohort median gets a ranked cause list — equipment runtime anomaly, setback gap, or unit efficiency flag — so you know whether to dispatch a tech, adjust a schedule, or both. Rankings refresh daily. Most outliers surface within one day of onset. See /fault-detection for how equipment-level anomalies feed into this.
Typically three phases. Phase 1: one district (20–40 sites) as a pilot, validating data quality and alert thresholds over 30 days. Phase 2: regional expansion (100–200 sites) with the chain ops team owning daily monitoring. Phase 3: full chain onboarding with automated reporting and setback compliance enabled. Hardware installation per site is minimal — a gateway or a cloud-to-cloud connector depending on the control platform. Most pilots are running within two weeks of kickoff. Request a pilot scope from the form below.
Per site per month, with volume tiers starting at 50 sites. No per-point, per-brand, or per-alert metering. The base subscription includes chain-level energy benchmarking, setback compliance tracking, and outlier detection. Franchisee scorecard views and write-back setback enforcement are add-ons. A single-district pilot is a fixed-fee engagement. Multi-site annual contracts include onboarding and integration support. Request pricing from the form below — quote depends on site count and control platform mix.
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Carrier, Trane, Daikin, Mitsubishi, LG, Lennox, York, Samsung — 20+ HVAC, home-automation, and BMS brands.
63 brands across 3 categories — HVAC (31), Home Automation (18), BMS (14). Protocols: BACnet, KNX, MQTT, Matter, Modbus, REST, WebSocket, Z-Wave, Zigbee.
How it stays out of your way
Sealed data plane. Per-site auth. Audit log on every setpoint touch.
Deploys at the building edge — your data doesn't leave the site to be useful.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP-compatible client. You pick the brain.
Private beta
Designed for QSR, c-store, big-box, and pharmacy chains.
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