Solutions - Businesses

Energy is one of you largest operating costs. It shouldn't require a specialist to manage it properly.

IQ LAB gives multi-site businesses the visibility, analysis and procurement tools that were previously only available to organisations with dedicated energy teams. Monitor every site. Validate every bill. Run your own procurement.

Manufacturing · Retail · Property · Healthcare · Logistics

The reality for most businesses

This is how most businesses manage energy procurement. IQ LAB is built to replace all of it.

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Bills arrive and get paid. Checking them manually against contracted rates would take more time than anyone has. If there's an error, it gets paid. You'd never know it was there.
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You know a contract is renewing when someone flags it. By then there's rarely time to run a proper process, so you go back to the same broker, accept the offer and move on. It's the path of least resistance.
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Between invoices, you have no visibility over what's happening at your sites. If something changes - a demand spike, equipment left running, a meter that stops reporting - you find out six weeks later when the bill arrives.
What changes when you connect

Three things that shift immediately.

Not gradually, not after months of onboarding. From the moment you connect your data, these three things change.

See everything.
Every site. Every meter. Every day. Your interval data updated each morning so you know what happened yesterday - not when the invoice arrives. Usage, demand, solar, submetering - one view across your entire portfolio. Sites tracking normally sit quietly. Sites with issues surface immediately.
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Find what's costing you.
Automated bill validation on every invoice. Tariff analysis against your actual load profile. Network tariff review. Demand and power factor identification. The things that cost you money without anyone noticing get surfaced automatically - with the line item, the amount and the recommended action.
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Take control of procurement.
Run your own comparisons or full C&I tenders direct to a growing panel of major Australian retailers. Electronic signing. Automatic contract upload. Renewal tracking across every site. Procurement that runs on your data, on your terms - with the IQ LAB team available to assist if you need it.
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Your Industry

Built for the businesses where energy matters most.

Different industries have different load profiles, different procurement pressures and different reporting requirements. IQ LAB adapts to how your business actually operates.

Manufacturing
Process, light industrial, production facilities
Energy can represent 15–30% of total operating cost depending on the process - yet most manufacturers have never had a full energy review.
Manufacturing sites carry some of the most complex energy cost structures of any commercial operator. Demand charges driven by production equipment startups. Power factor penalties from motors and compressed air systems. Submetering requirements for cost allocation across production lines. IQ LAB gives you half-hourly demand visibility so you can see exactly what's triggering your peak charges. Power factor trends monitored and flagged before they become network penalties. Circuit-level submetering to allocate costs accurately. And procurement built on your actual interval data - so your next contract reflects how your plant actually runs.
Demand event analysis
Power factor monitoring
Submetering & cost allocation
Bill validation
C&I tender with actaul load data
Multi-site Retail
Chains, franchises, distribution networks
The individual sites are often straightforward. The complexity - and the cost - comes from scale.
For a retail chain with twenty, fifty or a hundred locations, energy management is a volume problem. Bills coming in from multiple retailers across multiple states, meter reads that vary in quality, contracts renewing at different times and no single view of what's happening across the portfolio. IQ LAB gives you one dashboard across every site with outlier detection that surfaces the locations performing outside their pattern. Automated bill validation across every invoice simultaneously, so errors at scale get caught rather than paid. Portfolio-wide contract management so no site ever rolls onto a default rate because a renewal window was missed.
Portfolio dashboard with outlier detection
Bill validation at scale
Portfolio renewal calendar
Multi-state visibility
Simultaneous portfolio tenders
Commercial Property & Embedded Networks
Portfolio owners
Energy sits with the FM team, who are managing it alongside a dozen other responsibilities - and usually without the data to manage it well.
For portfolio owners managing their own sites, the challenge is visibility and cost control across buildings with different tenants, different load profiles and different contract structures. IQ LAB gives the FM team a complete portfolio view, automated bill validation on every invoice, tariff analysis against actual usage and contract management that doesn't depend on someone remembering a renewal date.
Embedded network operators
Running an electricity network within a building means monitoring by zone, accurate tenant billing and increasingly, sustainability reporting at a building level.
For embedded network operators, IQ LAB provides submetering integration, zone-level monitoring and cost allocation tools - the infrastructure to run a network properly rather than reactively. Building-level Scope 2 reporting updated automatically from actual consumption, formatted for NGERS and ready to include in sustainability submissions without rebuilding from a spreadsheet.
Portfolio and zone-level monitoring
Tenant cost allocation
Embedded network submetering
Building-level Scope 2 reporting
Procurement for owned sites
Contract management
Healthcare
Hospitals, clinics, aged care, medical centres
IQ LAB gives you a structured procurement workflow — from data collection to retailer responses to contract sign-off — without the manual overhead.
Healthcare facilities face growing expectations from boards, funders and accreditation bodies around energy use, carbon reporting and sustainability performance. Scope 2 emissions reporting is moving from optional to expected. IQ LAB provides automated bill validation that catches errors without anyone having to check manually, continuous data monitoring that flags gaps before they become estimated bills, and NGERS-aligned Scope 2 reporting updated automatically from actual consumption. Contract management that ensures renewals are handled properly - not reactively when someone notices the expiry.
Automated bill validation
Data gap monitoring
NGERS-aligned Scope 2 reporting
Demand analysis
Contract & renewal management
Logistics & Cold Storage
Warehousing, distribution, temperature-controlled facilities
Without interval data visibility, there's no way to tell whether refrigeration is running efficiently, whether a compressor has developed a fault, or whether overnight demand is higher than it should be. By the time it shows up on a bill, the cost has already accumulated.
Refrigeration systems that run continuously, compressor cycles that create demand spikes, overnight consumption that's often as high as daytime - logistics and cold storage operators carry energy profiles that most businesses never deal with. IQ LAB gives you daily interval data visibility so overnight consumption patterns are clear. Anomaly detection that flags when a refrigeration zone or compressor is drawing outside its normal profile. Submetering for zone-level cost attribution. And demand analysis to identify whether short compressor startup peaks are triggering charges that operational adjustments could reduce.
Overnight consumption monitoring
Anomaly detection
Refrigeration load tracking
Circuit-level submetering
Demand event analysis
How it works in practice

From first connection to full control.

Most businesses start with one thing and expand from there. Here's how the platform typically builds value over time.

Stage 01
Connect and see
Connect your sites via CDR, your meter data provider or bill upload. Within days you have a portfolio view you've never had before - every site, consumption data, usage patterns across the entire business.
For most businesses, this is the first time they've seen their energy data at this level of detail. The most common outcome is finding something they didn't know was there.
Stage 02
Validate and find
IQ LAB runs your first bill validation cycle automatically. Most portfolios surface at least one finding early - a rate discrepancy, an estimated bill never corrected, a tariff that doesn't suit the load profile.
These are findings that have been costing money silently. Now they're visible, documented and ready to act on.
Stage 03
Optimise
With data building up, IQ LAB forms a clear picture of your load profiles, demand patterns and cost drivers. Tariff analysis, demand event identification, network tariff review - ranked by impact.
The platform works continuously across your sites and surfaces opportunities without anyone having to run manual analysis.
Stage 04
Take control
When your next renewal comes up, you go to market on your own terms. Your interval data builds the tender pack. You choose the retailers, compare the offers and sign electronically.
The IQ LAB team is there if you want support. Your Scope 2 reporting updates automatically when the new contract is live.
Trusted by

Used by some of Australia's most demanding energy operators.

From hospitality groups to multi-site retailers — see how Australian businesses cut energy costs without a broker.

TRANSGRID
Enterprise · 100+ sites

Australia's main electricity transmission infrastructure operator uses IQ LAB across more than 100 substations. Smart meter integration, automated bill validation, demand analysis, network tariff reviews, budget tracking and Scope 2 ESG reporting - at infrastructure scale. The same platform that handles Transgrid's complexity is available to your business today.

Melbourne Marriott Hotel
Hospitality · Multi-property

"It's made a clear, measurable difference in how we manage energy across the property. The platform is intuitive and powerful, giving us visibility into consumption patterns and actionable insights that translate into real savings."

IQ LAB manages energy visibility and procurement across the property - usage monitoring, bill validation, contract support and market insights. The platform provides both the data and the deal-finding in one place.

Platform Capabilities

Everything a multi-site business needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Portfolio visibility
One dashboard across all sites and meters. Usage, demand, solar, submetering. Updated daily. Outliers surface automatically without anyone having to look for them.
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Automated bill validation
Every invoice checked against contracted rates and meter data. Discrepancies flagged with the line item, the amount and the likely cause. Dispute documentation ready to send.
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Tariff & demand analysis
Your load profile analysed against your current tariff structure. Demand events identified with cost impact. Power factor trends monitored. Opportunities quantified and ranked.
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Self-serve procurement
Compare offers in minutes or run a full C&I tender direct to a growing panel of major retailers. Electronic signing. Automatic contract upload. IQ LAB team available to assist.
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Contract & renewal management
Every contract stored with terms, rates and renewal dates. Alerts fire well before windows close. Portfolio renewal calendar so nothing slips through across any site.
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Scope 2 reporting
Automatic Scope 2 calculation from actual consumption data. NGERS-aligned format. Dynamic dashboard and CSV download. Updates automatically when green power is chosen at procurement.
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First of it's kind

For the first time in Australia, you can run your own energy tender.

C&I businesses no longer need a broker to run a competitive energy procurement process. IQ LAB sends a structured RFP directly to a growing panel of major Australian retailers, collects responses in a consistent format and presents them side by side for comparison. Your interval data builds the tender pack. You choose the retailers, set the terms and sign electronically when you're ready. The IQ LAB team is available to assist or run the process alongside you if you prefer.

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Connect your interval data via CDR or meter data provider
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Check Market Insights - timing your tender right matters
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Choose retailers, set terms, opt for green power if needed
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Receive responses - structured, comparable, in one place
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Compare side by side and sign electronically via DocuSign
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Contract uploads automatically - Bill IQ active from day one