In practiceThe Norwegian energy sector is a small, tightly connected infinite game. People change jobs and meet again on the other side of the table, and what you did in a procurement five years ago, they remember. That is not a moral observation; it is a description of the market.
Our cause is that the energy sector deserves tools built by people who understand the domain, not generic platforms adapted afterwards. That is easy to write. The test is what it costs us.
Modularity is the clearest answer. Our products stand on their own and are meant to be bought separately. That gives weaker lock-in and a lower threshold for replacing us, and in a finite game it is a blunder. In an infinite game it is the whole point: a customer who stays because they want to stays longer than one who stays because they must.
Røkte is the same decision again. We manage systems from vendors we compete with elsewhere, and make the customer better at something we did not build. Worthy rivals, not enemies.
And rewriting the code is existential flexibility in practice. We rewrite when it makes the system safer and cheaper to run, even though what is there already works. That is a cost taken voluntarily, for the same reason.
What we look for in a partner is the same time horizon. Someone playing for the quarter advises accordingly, and that advice is not worth having in a facility meant to stand for thirty years.
In practice
The Norwegian energy sector is a small, tightly connected infinite game. People change jobs and meet again on the other side of the table, and what you did in a procurement five years ago, they remember. That is not a moral observation; it is a description of the market.
Our cause is that the energy sector deserves tools built by people who understand the domain, not generic platforms adapted afterwards. That is easy to write. The test is what it costs us.
Modularity is the clearest answer. Our products stand on their own and are meant to be bought separately. That gives weaker lock-in and a lower threshold for replacing us, and in a finite game it is a blunder. In an infinite game it is the whole point: a customer who stays because they want to stays longer than one who stays because they must.
Røkte is the same decision again. We manage systems from vendors we compete with elsewhere, and make the customer better at something we did not build. Worthy rivals, not enemies.
And rewriting the code is existential flexibilityAbility to change power consumption or production in response to price signals or system operator needs. in practice. We rewrite when it makes the system safer and cheaper to run, even though what is there already works. That is a cost taken voluntarily, for the same reason.
What we look for in a partner is the same time horizon. Someone playing for the quarter advises accordingly, and that advice is not worth having in a facility meant to stand for thirty years.
