About
Paces builds agentic AI, GIS/data software, and expert-validated development services for renewable-energy, data-center, real-estate, and other physical-infrastructure developers. Its platform streamlines siting, interconnection, permitting, and diligence by consolidating complex spatial and regulatory data, automating early-stage work, and enabling parallel development workflows.
Market
Paces competes in energy-infrastructure development software, especially renewable-energy site selection and early- and late-stage project diligence, with adjacent applications in data centers, EV charging, and industrial loads. It positions itself as a vertical-AI platform that combines geospatial, grid, permitting, and environmental data with multi-agent automation and human expert services in unified workflows, differentiating it from narrower site-selection, GIS, and solar-design tools by supporting the path from siting through construction-ready diligence.
Paces targets organizations with active energy-infrastructure pipelines: distributed-generation and utility-scale renewable developers, utilities, data-center and industrial-load developers, and real-estate firms. Its core users are project-development, siting, interconnection, permitting, and diligence teams that need to evaluate many opportunities and advance projects faster without proportionally increasing headcount; the available sources do not specify a formal company-size threshold.
At a Glance
Problem
Paces addresses the bottleneck in renewable-energy and power-infrastructure development: traditional project workflows are sequential, manual, and siloed, so teams can spend substantial time and capital on sites that later fail because of grid, environmental, zoning, permitting, or interconnection constraints. A single diligence error or missed requirement can delay a project by months and cost millions in stranded capital. The killer use case is early-stage site selection and diligence: identifying viable parcels, matching them with actual power capacity and infrastructure, and eliminating weak opportunities before developers commit to land, consultants, and development capital.
Product / Service
Paces provides an AI-powered development platform combining proprietary energy and geospatial data, workflow software, an autonomous AI Agent, modular diligence reports, and expert services. Its tools include Project Search and Permitting Predictor, while the Agent can execute market selection, siting, ranking, diligence, interconnection, and permit-submission workflows against a developer’s criteria. Outputs are grounded in industry-specific data and reviewed by power, permitting, and environmental specialists.
The benefit is a unified, parallelized workflow instead of disconnected tools and sequential handoffs. Paces says its system can condense parts of site selection and diligence from months to minutes, help teams evaluate five times as many opportunities, halve the path to shovel-ready projects, and reach power up to three times faster.
Market
Paces competes in the vertical energy-infrastructure-development software market, spanning renewable-energy siting, GIS and data intelligence, permitting, interconnection, and project diligence. Its customers include renewable developers, utilities, data-center developers, industrial-load teams, and other organizations that need to secure viable sites and power. Adjacent competitors include Sitetracker, which focuses on renewable project-management workflows, and Quorum Software’s On Demand Land, which combines renewable land management, GIS mapping, agreement management, and project monitoring; Paces is differentiated by combining site selection and automated early-stage diligence with later-stage expert services.
Paces is a commercial company rather than a pre-revenue concept: it announced an $11 million Series A in July 2024, lists EDF Renewables, AES, and Third Pillar Solar among its clients, and said in May 2026 that its Agent had already been deployed on more than 3.2 GW of project pipeline. Its 2026 case studies report that New Energy Equity operates across 16 states and has developed more than 600 MW, while another workflow reduced lead generation from eight hours to 80 minutes and saved $175,000; public revenue figures were not disclosed in the available sources.
Founders & Leadership
Funding History
Resolute Ventures
Navitas Capital
Recent News
Paces introduced Paces Agent, an autonomous AI system designed to execute end-to-end energy-development workflows from siting through notice to proceed. The company says it was co-built with leading customers and has already been deployed across more than 3.2 GW of project pipeline.
Paces published the first report in a monthly Data Center Site Analysis series, examining county-level site availability and quality in Indiana and Texas. The report focuses on identifying power-ready sites amid growing AI-driven demand for grid capacity.
Paces CEO and co-founder James McWalter outlined how AI could enable highly automated power-development companies, including workflows for siting, permitting, grid modeling, and interconnection filings. The article says Paces is already working with people pursuing this model.
Paces announced Modular Reports for renewable-energy and data-center development. The offering provides custom intelligence on power, permitting, environmental, and infrastructure constraints in approximately 5–10 days.
Paces described its Automated Reports product, which combines automated analysis with expert validation to deliver project insights faster and help developers de-risk projects and reach power more quickly.
Active Roles
16Business Model
Paces appears to use a B2B software-plus-services model, selling an AI-powered platform, expert-validated diligence reports, and development services to infrastructure developers and related businesses. Public sources do not disclose specific pricing or subscription terms.