Simple Thread

Stop Drowning in Repetitive WorkAccelerate Your
Power Systems Engineers.

Running power system studies shouldn’t be a test of endurance. Your team was hired for their engineering expertise, not to manage data entry, fix broken spreadsheets, or babysit repetitive studies. We help accelerate your team by automating the studies that are eating up their schedule, leaving them time for more important work.

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Is your team overwhelmed 
by its current workload?

You have a mandate to modernize the grid, but you’re stuck fighting legacy battles.

  • Manual Workflows: Are you copy-pasting data between disconnected tools?
  • Fragile Spreadsheets: Do you worry one broken formula could invalidate a study?
  • Reactive Fire-Fighting: Does it feel like you are always catching up, never looking forward?

It shouldn’t be this hard to do the work that matters. You deserve tools that move as fast as you do.

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We Build Tools That Solve Real Problems, Not Add Overhead.

Simple Thread is the bridge between traditional Power Systems and modern Software Engineering. We replace "reactive" with "scalable."

Do the Work

Our power systems engineers augment your team for complex modeling.

Trust the Work

Our user experience experts ensure the data is actionable, transparent, and meaningful.

Scale the Work

Our software engineers build the automation that clears your backlog.

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We’re Engineers, Developers, Product Thinkers, AND Grid Geeks.

Most software companies don't understand the grid.
Most grid consultants don't understand software.
We are the rare team that speaks both languages fluently. We understand the frustration of broken models and opaque data. That’s why we built a team of experts dedicated to one mission: helping utilities modernize their study workflows.

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We do the work, so you can accelerate yours.

Software
Solutions

Need to scale your study workflows? Leverage our products to rapidly scale Outage Planning and Interconnection studies with our specialized platforms.

Custom
Software

Broken spreadsheets? Workflows that don’t scale? We design and build bespoke, scalabletools to replace manual modeling and legacy spreadsheet workflows.

Power Systems Consulting

Need more experts to execute studies? Augment your team with our engineers to handle modeling, capacity analysis, and long-term planning studies.

See How We Help Utilities Scale

Facility Ratings Modernization

Problem: Facility ratings were scattered, manual, and error-prone.

Solution: A digital ratings system that increases accuracy, granularity, and compliance.

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Hosting Capacity Analysis

Problem: Rapid load growth made transmission capacity harder to evaluate quickly and reliably.

Solution: A hosting capacity tool that speeds analysis and drives smarter grid expansion.

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Outage Planning & Reliability

Problem: Critical maintenance data was hard to access, slowing outage planning and operations.

Solution: A platform (ANODE) that centralizes data and accelerates reliability decisions.

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Minerva

Faster, smarter planning 
with clear grid intelligence.

Minerva gives planners and developers transparent, visual, and actionable insights into hosting capacity and interconnection timing. This means utilities and their partners get fast, intuitive ways to analyze their systems – with no coding or from-scratch modeling required.

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Join Our Community

Are you working in energy, utilities, or grid tech in Virginia? Join our Energy Tech VA Meetup to connect with industry peers, share ideas, and explore the future of energy together.

Whether you’re in policy, planning, engineering, or software, there’s a seat for you at the table.

Simple Thread Insights

Our engineers and designers publish weekly articles on the systems, software, and data challenges shaping the future of the grid. No fluff—just practical insights and lessons.

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Interested in empowering your energy and utility operations?

Contact us today, and we can help you take the next step in transforming your organization.

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