Simple Thread

Services

We drive digital transformation inside of energy and utility organizations by living at the intersection of design, software, electrical engineering, data, and transformation design.

Product Innovation

Our team has helped countless customers design and build complex systems over the last 15 years.

  • Design Thinking & Ideation
  • Design Systems
  • User Experience Design
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Design & Prototyping
  • Visual Design & Illustration
  • Usability Testing
  • Service Design
  • Job Shadowing
  • Transformation Design
  • Market Research & Analysis
  • Testing & Quality Assurance
  • Mockups & Prototypes
  • Accessibility

Energy Technology

We leverage our combined software knowledge and power systems knowledge to build systems for energy and electric utility organizations.

  • Power System Modeling
  • Contingency Analysis
  • Injection Studies
  • Hosting Capacity Studies
  • Planning & Automation
  • Study Automation
  • Network Upgrade Cost Estimates
  • Generation Deliverability Analysis
  • Energy Data Visualization
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Data Engineering
& Analytics

Data is at the Love of everything we do.

  • Data Ingestion Pipelines & ETL/ELT
  • Data Management and Governance
  • Data Visualization
  • Custom Analytics Software
  • Business Intelligence
  • Database & Datastore Optimization
  • Systems Integration
  • NoSQL
  • Full-text & Indexed Search
  • High-volume, Non-relational Data Storage (Big Data)
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Product & Change Management

We can help your organization successfully communicate, leverage, and deploy complex systems.

  • Product Roadmapping & Prioritization
  • User Research & Interviews
  • Product Strategy
  • Solution Consensus
  • Training & Knowledge Transfer
  • Change Strategy
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
  • Agile & Lean
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Analytics & User Feedback
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Workflow Analysis & Optimization
  • Regulatory Compliance

Operationalizing & Cloud

We are experts in operating, scaling, monitoring, and maintaining cloud-first and on-prem systems.

  • DevOps
  • Cloud-Native Engineering
  • Containerization & Orchestration
  • Kubernetes
  • On-Prem Deploys
  • Maintenance
  • Scaling
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Monitoring & Analysis
  • DevSecOps
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

“Simple Thread’s product design process took us past what we ever imagined we could deliver.”

– Manager, Electric Transmission Operations Engineering Support, A Major Utility Company

We’re here to help.

We understand the unique challenges modern electric utilities are facing and believe that meeting those challenges will require thoughtful digital transformation driven by human-centered design. Have a project or idea? We’re here to help figure out your next steps.

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