Squid 🦑 AI-powered grid planning in your browser
The electricity grid is the most important machine on Earth - but planning is still file chaos. One trusted model fixes it.
Details
- External ID
- 97179
- Source
- YC
- Company
- Squid
- Product
- Squid 🦑 AI-powered grid planning in your browser
- Website domain
- squid.energy
- Launched
- Jan. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- Winter 2026
- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3333333333333333
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- embodied AI and robotics platforms
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ai-powered electricity grid planning
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Squid acts as a version-controlled model repository for utility-scale electrical grid planning, requiring deep expertise in power systems engineering, proprietary simulation file formats, and power flow equations.
What it would actually take: The system requires native binary/text parsers for proprietary engineering suites (PowerFactory, PSS®E, IPSA, CYME, ETAP) and translation to standard schemas like CIM/CGMES. It needs a graph database topology engine capable of power-flow balance validation, scenario branch/merge semantics, and constraint checking against grid physical limits. This demands specialized electrical power systems engineers, GIS specialists, and complex distributed data versioning architectures.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #21 of 45 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 86 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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