Energy AI agent · Compliance reporting
Compliance-Reporting Assistant AI Agent
Assemble reporting packages from your systems of record, bind each figure back to the record it came from, and hold the package for the named officer who decides whether anything is filed.
- Typical delivery
- 4–6 weeks
- Deployment
- Your stack
- Named signer
- Pre-submission
- After launch
- Agent Care
What this agent does
Assembles the package, not the decision to file
In
- 01
Ingest meter, fuel, generation and monitoring data from supported historian, EHS and reporting sources.
- 02
Normalise units, periods and site identifiers, and carry each value forward with the record it came from.
Reason
- 03
Assemble the figures and the working that the register entry asks for.
- 04
Apply the method, factor and boundary recorded against that obligation.
- 05
Bind each stated figure to a value in a system of record, and mark what the record does not settle.
Decide
- 06
Surface which obligation is next and what evidence is still outstanding.
- 07
Route the assembled package to the named signer for review.
Out
- 08
Retain the source records, the working, the reviewer's amendments and the sign-off against the filing.
- 09
Execute write actions only inside the approval boundaries agreed during implementation.
Product statement
The agent works from the register you maintain — obligations change and a named owner keeps it current — and your officer decides what is filed.
Example workflow
One obligation, data to sign-off
- 1Obligation raisedA register entry, its period, its method and its named owner
- 2Figures assembledMeter, fuel, generation and activity values, each with the record it came from
- 3Package draftedFigures, working, narrative and confidence
- 4Controls appliedSource-binding checks, method and boundary checks, outstanding-evidence flags and confidence threshold
No human action required
Stages 1 to 4 run unaided, and nothing is filed at any of them — the agent is assembling against your register, and the signer's lane opens at the confidence gate.
Goes to the named signer to review.
Adds a compliance-team read first.
Signer review
The package is held with its source records, its outstanding items and the confidence.
Approve · Amend · Send to compliance review
Approved — released for filing
- 6Reporting systems updatedOnly where write access and approval policy allow it
- 7Outcome evaluatedAmendment rate, outstanding-item outcomes, regulator queries and post-filing corrections
Amendments
Amendments are counted, and a filing already made can only be corrected after the fact.
What should not run autonomously
Human approval stays in control
Outside the boundary — human approval required
8 items
- Filing or submitting anything to a regulator.
- Signing, certifying or attesting to a submission.
- Deciding that an obligation applies, or does not.
- Adding, amending or retiring a register entry.
Automation boundary
Agent acts unaided
- ✓Pull the figures each obligation needs from the systems of record.
- ✓Bind each figure to the record and the working behind it.
- ✓Check the register for which obligation is next.
- ✓Assemble the package, mark what is unresolved, and hold it there.
Any write happens inside the boundaries agreed at implementation, never ahead of sign-off.
- Stating a figure without the record behind it.
- Choosing a method, factor or reporting boundary.
- Answering a regulator's question or query letter.
- Changes to thresholds, controls or approval rules.
Example output
One reported figure, annotated
What the agent assembles stays attached to the record it came from.
Reporting output · single figure
Illustrative example- Obligation
- Emissions return
- Assembled line
- Stationary combustion at the Bayside plant
- Stated figure
- 41,280 tCO2e
- Record of source
- Continuous monitoring data
- Confidence
- 93%
- Method applied
- Method recorded on the register entry
As received
Taken from the plant historian and the monitoring record — nothing on this side is written by the agent.
Source records used
- Monitoring system export
- Fuel purchase records
- Register and method note
Why this figure
It resolves to a monitoring record and a stated method — the pair the signer checks.
What the score decides
Below the configured threshold the package picks up a compliance read before it.
Action
ApproveAmendSend to compliance reviewValue
Where AI adds value
The same four claims, placed at the point in the workflow where each one applies.
Where the value lands
Value 01 – 04
Each obligation
From your register
Assemble from the register
Work from the register you maintain, not an assumed rule set — a duty can outlive its regime.
Assemble it, a person files it
Recurring returns arrive assembled, with the working and the source records attached.
Show what is next and what is missing
The register is read for the obligation coming up and the evidence still outstanding, so the signer's read starts there.
Build an evidence trail
The figure, the record it came from and the officer who signed it stay with the filing.
Integrations
Typical integrations
Five system groups connect to the same agent. Which of them are in scope is decided in discovery.
Operational data
- Historian
- PI
- SCADA
- CEMS and metering systems
EHS and emissions
- Enablon
- Intelex
- Sphera
- Cority
- SAP EHS
Enterprise systems
- SAP
- Oracle
- Maximo
- Fuel and procurement records
Agent
Compliance reporting
- Reads the record
- Assembles the package
- Holds for sign-off
Register and workflow
- Obligation register
- GRC
- ServiceNow
- Archer
Observability & evaluation
- OpenTelemetry
- Langfuse
- Supported monitoring/evaluation sources
Integration availability depends on the client's existing systems and API access.
Agent controls
Six layers between the model and the filing
Controls stack inward. What the stack does not catch is set out in the map below.
L6 · Outermost — last line of defence
Inward → L1 · closest to the model
- L1 – L2
- Test whether a package may stand
- L3
- Puts the filing in a signer's hands
- L4 – L5
- Keep the figure and the record it came from
- L6
- Narrows to data assembly when signals degrade
How Nestack evaluates it
Evaluate the assembly workflow — not only the finished return.
Coverage runs the whole depth of the workflow, and every layer is cut by slice.
Surface — the figure the regulator sees
- E1Final-output evaluationDid each stated figure resolve to the record behind it?
- E2Step-level evaluationDid the agent use the right register entry, method and boundary?
- E3Tool evaluationDid it read the correct system, site and reporting period?
- E4Confidence calibrationDo low-confidence packages actually attract more amendments?
- E5Slice evaluationHow does performance change across specific obligation types?
- E6Business outcomeHow many packages needed an amendment, or a correction after the filing had gone?
Floor — the outcome the reporter answers for
Failure modes
Where each failure originates in the agent
Seven failure modes, each placed at the stage it starts in.
Agent lifecycle
Direction of processing →
01 · Retrieval
1 mode
- KM-03
Superseded source record
A value read from an export that was later revised.
Stage gathers
Register entries, meter, fuel and monitoring records
02 · Reasoning
2 modes
- KM-04
Unsourced figure
A stated value cannot be resolved back to a record.
- KM-06
Method drift
A boundary or factor is used that the register does not state.
Stage proposes
Figures, working, outstanding items and confidence
03 · Tool / write
2 modes
- KM-02
Missed filing window
The next obligation is not surfaced while it can still be met.
- KM-05
Stale register entry
Assembly runs against an entry the owner has not updated.
Stage writes
Only where write access and approval policy allow it
04 · Output
1 mode
- KM-01
Outstanding item unmarked
Evidence still missing is not shown as outstanding.
Stage returns
The package the signer reviews and
05 · Change / Version
1 mode
- KM-07
Silent method regression
A model or rule change widens what the agent will state.
Stage tracks
Model, prompt, method config and register version
- Sev-1 · a figure stated without its record
- Sev-2 · a wrong figure reaches the package
- Sev-3 · source degrades, package routes to review
Affected slices
A good total can hide one bad obligation type
Break the amendment rate down by obligation type before you trust it. A total can look acceptable while a few types absorb most of the rework, so Nestack reports the rate by slice and not only in aggregate.
Slice performance — reported separately, not only in aggregate
Illustrative example| Slice | Failure rate | Lift | Lift vs. threshold | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newly added obligations | 9.7% | 3.8× | Review | |
| Estimated or gap-filled values | 5.6% | 2.2× | Review | |
| Multi-site aggregations | 3.8% | 1.5× | Watch | |
| Established recurring returns | 1.5% | 0.6× | Normal |
Bar: amendment-rate lift vs. established-return baseline · scale 0–4.0× · tick marks the 2.0× review threshold
2 of 4 slices over threshold
Evidence-linked improvement
A cycle ends in a test, not an explanation
An apology does not close a cycle; a case the next release must pass does. That suite is what the next filing put together here is measured against.
Improvement cycle · five stages
Switchback — the path turns at Improve and returns at Learn
- 01
Detect
Amendment rate rises in one obligation slice.
- 02
Diagnose
Within the same reporting cycle, a compliance analyst reads the packages and the records behind them until the cause narrows to one.
- 03
Improve
The correction is versioned, with the filings that motivated it attached.
- 04
Verify
A failing case holds the release until it passes.
- 05
Learn
The case is added permanently, and the reporting rules move with it.
Learn → Detect
The return edge. The next detection runs against a suite that is one case longer.
Typical build scope
Twelve workstreams across six weeks
The build scope read against the delivery timeline. Week structure follows the six-week plan — discovery, sources, assembly workflow, evaluation, integration, then production validation and handover.
Workstream
Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6
- 01Reporting workflow discovery and boundary definition.Week 1
- 02Source-system and register assessment.Week 1, Week 2
- 03Obligation-register and method mapping with your compliance team.Week 1, Week 2
- 04Source ingestion and normalisation.Week 2
- 05Assembly logic and source binding.Week 2, Week 3
- 06Confidence scoring and exception routing.Week 3
- 07Signer review workflow.Week 3, Week 4
- 08Source and register-system integration.Week 5
- 09Traceability and deadline cases.Week 4, Week 5
- 10Guardrails and filing controls.Week 4
- 11Filing-trail instrumentation.Week 5, Week 6
- 12Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover.Week 6
12 workstreams · 6 weeks · bar shows the weeks a workstream is active — several run in parallel
Final scope and sequence confirmed in discovery
Engagement tiers
What each tier includes
Rows are the capabilities named in each tier's scope. Higher tiers include everything below them.
| Capability✓ in scope · — not at this tier | PilotOne obligation, one site | ProductionProduction source systems | AdvancedMultiple regimes / entities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduced at Pilot | |||
| Assembly to your register and methods | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signer approval | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Traceability baseline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Introduced at Production | |||
| Reporting by obligation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review workflow in your systems | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approved source write-back | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Source-system integration | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Introduced at Advanced | |||
| Multi-regime method rules | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-stage compliance approvals | — | — | ✓ |
| High filing volume | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-regime filing controls | — | — | ✓ |
| Build price | From $5,000 | From $8,000 | Custom quote |
- Final build price
- Confirmed after discovery based on integrations, workflow complexity, reporting volume, approval controls and deployment requirements.
- Separate from build
- Build pricing is separate from recurring Agent Care, which covers managed monitoring, evaluations, incidents and verified improvements after launch.
What we need from you
What you bring, and what we build with it
Each input maps to a piece of build scope and a week in the delivery timeline.
You bring
We build with it
01Your obligation register and its named owner
→Register ingestion and obligation mapping
Week 102Representative past filings
→Assembly baseline, method extraction and source binding
Week 203Your stated methods, factors and boundaries
→Method and boundary mapping, and the automation boundary
Week 104Access to relevant APIs, feeds or exports
→Source and register-system assessment, then integration setup
Week 205Figures you would not want filed
→Traceability cases and the evaluation suite
Week 406What must reach a signer before anything is filed
→Confidence scoring, exception routing, guardrails and approval controls
Week 307Named signers to review packages
→Signer review workflow, then pilot and production validation
Weeks 5–6
Nothing else is required
Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover are ours.
Delivery timeline
Four phases across six weeks
Each band covers the weeks the work really takes, so week 5 carries evaluation and launch together.
Phase
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
- DiscoveryW1
- BuildW2 – W3
- EvaluateW4 – W5
- Pilot & LaunchW5 – W6
Week focus
W1Reporting workflow discovery, method mapping and the automation boundary
W2Source integration and the assembly baseline
W3Assembly workflow, confidence logic and approval controls
W4Evaluation suite, traceability checks and failure-mode testing
W5Register integration, pilot obligations and targeted corrections
W6One reporting cycle assembled under the compliance team, then handover
- Reading the band
- Bars are drawn over the weeks the work occupies. The fifth week doubles because evaluation and launch overlap.
- At the end of W6
- Validation finishes on a live cycle and Agent Care assumes monitoring.
- Duration
- Six-week plan shown · typical delivery 4–6 weeks depending on scope confirmed in discovery.
Next step · Energy & Utilities AI agent
Build a reporting agent around the register you maintain.
We map the assembly workflow, set the automation boundary and name what stays with a person. You bring the obligation register, the systems your figures live in and the officer who signs.
- Typical delivery
- 4–6 weeks
- Deployment
- Your source systems
- Named signer
- Pre-submission
- After launch
- Agent Care available
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