# Buzz Solutions

> Buzz Solutions sells visual-intelligence software to electric utilities. Its PowerAI platform ingests RGB and thermal imagery from drones, helicopters, aircraft, ground crews, and fixed cameras; maps each image to an asset; detects defects and risks; and pushes prioritized findings into GIS, asset-management, and work-order systems. The Palo Alto company is betting that the durable advantage in utility AI is not a flashy model but years of domain imagery, human review, and integration into the slow, consequential work of grid maintenance.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, United States
- **Founders:** Kaitlyn Albertoli (CEO & Co-Founder), Vikhyat Chaudhry (COO, CTO & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 51 employees in 2026 based on provided company data; Forbes reported 28 employees in September 2024.
- **Products:** PowerAI, PowerAI Standard, PowerAI Essentials, PowerAI Pro, PowerGUARD
- **Notable:** Won the Energy & Utilities category at the 2024 SaaS Awards., Selected as one of 16 companies from more than 175 applicants for EPRI's 2024 Incubatenergy Labs program., Reported 100% year-over-year revenue growth, 50% U.S. customer growth, 40% team growth, and 110% partnership growth during 2024.

## Products & services

- **PowerAI** — A visual-intelligence platform that manages and maps inspection imagery, detects assets and anomalies in RGB and thermal data, supports human review, prioritizes findings, and integrates results into GIS, asset-management, and work-order systems.
- **PowerAI Standard** — The entry tier for inspection-image data management, structure matching, manual analysis, human review, prioritization, and standard reporting.
- **PowerAI Essentials** — A workflow-automation tier adding integrated GIS mapping, Skydio Cloud integration, and optional custom reports while retaining manual issue detection.
- **PowerAI Pro** — The full visual-AI tier, adding RGB and thermal detections, advanced analytics, custom reports, and work- and asset-management integrations.
- **PowerGUARD** — AI video analytics for fixed RGB and thermal substation cameras, providing near-real-time alerts for intrusion, safety, smoke, fire, and equipment-condition events. The capability is now presented within PowerAI's substation coverage.
- **PowerAI Solar** — RGB and thermal analysis for utility-scale solar assets, detecting hotspots, string outages, cracks, connector damage, and other underperformance signals.

## Achievements

- Won the Energy & Utilities category at the 2024 SaaS Awards.
- Selected as one of 16 companies from more than 175 applicants for EPRI's 2024 Incubatenergy Labs program.
- Reported 100% year-over-year revenue growth, 50% U.S. customer growth, 40% team growth, and 110% partnership growth during 2024.
- Processed 74,000 Dominion Energy images in 3.5 hours and supported analysis across 47,000 structures.
- Processed more than 88,000 AEP Texas images at a reported 0.6 seconds per image, saving six months in the inspection program.
- Helped a City of Troy use case replace an estimated 1,118 annual hours of manual image review.
- Won a $100,000 HearstLab AI Pitch & Showcase grant to expand into utility-scale solar.
- Closed a $20M Series A in August 2026 led by S3 Ventures.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Closed an oversubscribed $20M Series A led by S3 Ventures, with participation from GoPoint Ventures, HearstLab, and Blackhorn Ventures.
- **2026-07** — Published work on solar's growing role in meeting electricity demand from AI infrastructure.
- **2026-06** — Expanded PowerAI into utility-scale solar inspection, using RGB and thermal imagery to identify underperforming and damaged assets.
- **2026-06** — Won a $100,000 grant at HearstLab's AI Pitch & Showcase for its solar expansion plan.
- **2024-12** — Reported a 50% increase in U.S. customers and 100% year-over-year revenue growth for 2024 while highlighting new work with Dominion Energy and DRIFT Enterprise.
- **2024-03** — Raised $5M in growth funding led by GoPoint Ventures to scale PowerAI and PowerGUARD in the United States and internationally.

## Links

- Website: https://www.buzzsolutions.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/buzzsolutionsinc./
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/BuzzSolutions1
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuzzSolutionsInc
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buzzsolutionsinc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buzzsolutions2017/

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Last updated: 2026-08-22