Yorik Tisseau

The energy transition will be won or lost on how fast good projects reach financial close. That is why we help renewable developers move faster, with less risk and sharper commercial judgement: people make the decisions, governed AI agents do the heavy lifting, and the client owns the system.

The transition is a delivery problem

We know how to generate clean power. Solar, onshore and offshore wind, fixed and floating, battery storage and long-duration storage are proven. What holds the transition back is the time it takes to get projects from early development to financial close.

That time is spent on commercial work. Bids, procurement, contracts, negotiations, financing. It is slow, it is repetitive, and too much of it depends on a few experienced people working late with spreadsheets and old email threads.

Every month a viable project waits is a month of emissions we did not avoid.

What I have seen

I have spent 17 years leading bids, procurement and deals on complex energy and infrastructure projects, from project engineer to bid director. I have seen good projects stall because the evidence was scattered, the comparison was rushed, or the team simply ran out of hours.

The problem is rarely a lack of talent. It is that talented people spend their time on work a system should be doing, and too little on the judgement only they can provide.

The question has changed

There is no longer a question of whether to use AI in commercial work.

Many developers and leaders still tell me, "We don't use AI agents for commercial." I understand the caution. I think the position is wrong.

Commercial work is exactly where AI can do the most good: reading tender packs, comparing offers, checking positions against precedent, drafting, tracking every open point. The risk is not in using it. The risk is in using it badly, or leaving it to competitors who will use it well.

The right way

The task is to use AI the right way. For us, that means governed agentic workflows.

We believe commercial work should be human-agent integrated:

• People keep judgement, relationships, negotiation and decisions.
• Agents do the evidence, the comparison, the drafting and the tracking.
• Governance is built in, so every output is traceable, reviewable and owned by a person.

This is not about replacing commercial teams. It is about giving a small team the reach of a much larger one, without losing control.

What we are building

I want to build this for energy developers: one system that brings together the intelligence of a whole organisation. Every bid, every negotiation, every lesson learned, held in one place.

The system belongs to the client. It runs on their own data. It gets sharper with every project they run through it.

The result is simple. Developers grow faster and develop more projects. They take on less risk. They negotiate with better commercial acumen, from development to financial close.

What we believe

• Sustainability is the point. Everything we do should bring more clean energy online, sooner.
• Collaboration beats heroics. The best outcomes come from teams, partners and systems working together, not from one person carrying the deal.
• Innovation has to be practical. New tools only matter if they work on real projects, under real pressure.
• First-of-a-kind is worth doing. Floating wind, long-duration storage, new commercial models. Someone has to go first.
• Difficult things are the job. If it were easy, it would already be done.

The future we are working towards

A developer runs more projects with the same team. Commercial decisions are made on complete evidence, not partial memory. Lessons from one project carry into the next. Financial close comes sooner, and more megawatts get built.

That is how we accelerate the transition. Not by working harder, but by working together, with the right system behind us.

If that resonates, I would like to hear from you.

Yorik Tisseau, Founder, Ignis