Watch It Work
Real Slack conversations show Texture's AI agent fleet triaging bugs, shipping work, investigating alerts, and co-piloting a production database migration.
By Victor Quinn
Category: platform-infrastructure
What Made It Actually Work at Scale
The hard boundaries, adversarial review, operating patterns, and architecture that turned Texture’s AI agent fleet from an experiment into a durable part of how we build.
By Victor Quinn
Give every agent a badge
The difference between a useful AI agent and an accountable teammate is not a better prompt. It is identity, scoped access, and a system that can show who did what.
By Victor Quinn
I built this for myself first
The first chapter in how Texture moved from one founder’s personal AI experiment to an agent fleet the whole company could use.
By Victor Quinn
What a line clearance is, and who holds the tag?
When lineworkers go out to perform maintenance or restore an outage, one of the key questions that arises is who is responsible for making sure the line stays dead until they climb down?
By Cyril Brunner
What a load baseline is, and how it is calculated
After a demand response event, the first question is: How much load dropped? Thermostats, water heaters, and behavioral beat the peak programs require meter data to infer what happened.
By Cyril Brunner
AI doesn't need to be smarter. It needs to know you hate mushrooms.
Most utility data lives in silos: GIS, CIS, MDMS, all disconnected. Until that's fixed, AI on the grid is just guessing with better vocabulary
By Victor Quinn
How to use your data to identify members with new batteries or EVs
How do you figure out who's installed a battery or bought an EV? Some members may not inform their co-op about new residential installations.
By Jessica Edwards
Explore time travel, program operations v2, cleaner data | What's New in Texture
This week's updates are all about trustworthy data and a smoother platform experience, with a hint of time travel.
By Jessica Edwards
How the grid protects itself: reclosers, fuses, and why your lights blink
The lights blink, come back, blink again, come back, blink a third time, and then the power goes out. That sequence is not the grid failing. It is the grid protecting itself.
By Cyril Brunner
Texture Changelog: Site detail with substation, transformer, meters, and devices + water heaters
In the last two weeks, we've shipped nearly 1300 GitHub PRs, giving operators a clearer picture of what's actually happening on their grid and program managers a more dependable platform.
By Jessica Edwards
What's new in Texture: EV & grid services updates
This release moment is all about making EV and energy hardware more reliable, more observable, and easier to build on, especially for teams running demand response programs.
By Jessica Edwards
Grid visibility is the foundation, not the ceiling
I started my career at Vermont Electric Cooperative as a SCADA engineer. We had just been awarded federal funding and were adding thousands of real-time data points to the system.
By Cyril Brunner
Texture raises $12.5M series A for the OS for energy
Texture is building the operating system for energy. We work with dozens of electric utilities, hardware OEMs, and grid services companies.
By Sanjiv Sanghavi