Finance, procurement, people, works, customers and governance — the operating machinery of an electricity utility, on one platform, against one set of master data. Where AMPERE reads the network, BASELOAD runs the enterprise.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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BASELOAD · REPRESENTATIVE SCHEMATIC
NOT A SCREENSHOT
MODULE MAP
CHART OF ACCOUNTS · REGULATORY
WORK-ORDER QUEUE
THE PROBLEM
Most African utilities run finance, procurement, payroll, stores and billing on disconnected systems, spreadsheets and paper. The enterprise alternatives are three-year integrator programmes that cost more than the utility’s annual capex budget and still don’t understand local statutory requirements. BASELOAD is built for the utilities those programmes fail: modular, phased, and fluent in the statutory environment it operates in.
SIX MODULE FAMILIES
Six module families cover what a utility would otherwise assemble from enterprise resource planning suites, point systems and spreadsheets — on one platform, against one set of master data.
General ledger on a regulatory chart of accounts, payables and receivables, fixed asset accounting and depreciation, budgeting with commitment control, cost centres and job costing, treasury and bank reconciliation, and tax handling with statutory return generation.
Requisition to purchase order, supplier registry and prequalification, contract management, multi-store inventory for transformers, conductors, meters and poles, serialised asset tracking, goods receipt and issue, and import and clearing.
Employee and position master, payroll with statutory contributions, shift rostering for control rooms and field crews, leave and training, the certification and switching-authorisation register, incident and near-miss reporting, and permit to work.
Planned and reactive work orders, preventive maintenance by asset class, field crew dispatch with offline mobile, capital project management, contractor certificates and retention, and project-to-asset capitalisation.
Customer register and service connections, new connection workflow, meter-to-customer linkage, tariff and billing engine, mobile money and bank payment channels, debt management, disconnection and reconnection, contact centre and SLA tracking, and self-service portal.
Records and correspondence management, board and management meetings, contracts repository, internal audit and risk register, regulatory compliance calendar, and wayleave and right-of-way management with compensation tracking.
Customer & Revenue deploys first, for utilities that need billing fixed before anything else.
BUILT FOR THE STATUTORY ENVIRONMENT
Approval thresholds, tender committee workflows and statutory reporting built in, not configured in afterwards.
Statutory pension tiers, income tax bands and revenue authority returns generated from the system.
Lifeline, time-of-use, maximum demand and levy structures as first-class concepts.
The periodic submission pack generated from live data, not rebuilt in a spreadsheet each quarter.
DEPLOYMENT MODEL
Master data, organisation structure, security
Ledger, budgets, purchasing, stores
Work orders, maintenance, projects
Payroll, rostering, safety registers
Billing, payments, debt, service
Each phase goes live and delivers value before the next begins. A utility that needs billing fixed first starts with Customer & Revenue instead — the sequence bends to the utility, not the other way round.
ARCHITECTURE
The same Country → Utility tenancy model as AMPERE, configured per market as Gridline enters it. Each utility’s data is isolated at the tenant level; statutory templates attach at the country level.
BASELOAD and AMPERE share one foundation: asset, customer and organisation master data. The asset register that AMPERE analyses is the asset register BASELOAD depreciates. The customer record that BASELOAD bills is the connection point AMPERE monitors.
Open interfaces to AMI head-ends, meter data management, GIS, banking and mobile money channels, and national revenue and pension authorities’ filing formats.
SEE ALSO · HOW AMPERE AND BASELOAD SHARE ONE FOUNDATION
LUMEN · AI AGENT
Lumen, the AI agent that answers network questions inside AMPERE, extends across enterprise data in BASELOAD: procurement status, budget consumption, payroll exceptions and revenue collection — answered in natural language, scoped to the tenant, traceable to the records.
Which purchase orders are holding up the transformer maintenance programme?
Two open orders block four work orders: PO-1183 (distribution transformers, awaiting clearing) and PO-1191 (bushings, supplier prequalification incomplete). Both trace to requisitions raised against the Q3 maintenance budget line.
REQUEST A BRIEFING
BASELOAD is in development. A briefing covers the module families, the deployment path that fits your utility, and how the platform would sit alongside the systems you run today.