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Plume

S24Pivot 2 of 2
3 people|Active|Hiring|Website
Artificial IntelligenceSolar PowerB2BEnergyIndustrial
40°Significant Pivot
Before

Home energy renovation copilot

After

Renewable infrastructure deployment at scale.

Full description — before

Plume is an energy renovation copilot that helps real estate agents and contractors with energy audits and renovation planning. Our first customer, a real estate marketplace, uses Plume to provide potential buyers with precise energy renovation scenarios, cutting the time to sell a house in half. Using thermodynamic models, public housing data, satellite imagery and AI, Plume enables remote energy assessments of any building. In Europe alone, 35 million homes face regulatory pressure to be retrofitted within the next 5 years, and 220 million over the next 25 years. Plume leverages the founding team's unique expertise: Marc, a Harvard satellite researcher; JB, a thermodynamics engineer; and Edouard, a sales and product builder from Palantir.

Full description — after

Plume is an AI-powered geospatial platform for site selection in energy infrastructure projects. Selecting the right sites requires analysis of +50 geospatial, grid, and regulatory constraints across fragmented data sources. Plume changes the process by enabling users to interact with geospatial data using natural language.

Category shift
Energy & Climate TechEnergy & Climate Tech
Summary

Plume went from providing remote energy audits and renovation planning for residential buildings (serving real estate agents/contractors) to becoming a geospatial site selection tool for large-scale energy infrastructure deployment. This is a complete change of both product and likely customer, from home audits to infrastructure site selection.

Detected 10 months ago · 2025-05-15
Company journey — 2 pivots
Current

Renewable infrastructure deployment at scale.(viewing)

39.5°Significant Pivot2025-05-15
19.4°Moderate Pivot2024-09-26
Started as

Home energy renovations made easy