Energy systems engineer, founder, builder, operator. I build energy software with AI agents and publish the research behind it at mrbese.com.
Now
- WattShed, community energy programs for data centers: software that creates, verifies and pays household efficiency rebates. A public, no-login program designer covers all 50 states and DC, vision AI audits each home from video, and a deterministic engine prices every rebate. Engineering notes explain the system without exposing private code.
- Re_Tera: Insurance Copilot, we investigate your insurance policy before the fire does. A native iPhone and iPad app for homeowners and renters, live on the App Store. Engineering notes.
- ManorOS, a home energy auditor for iPhone and iPad with LiDAR room scanning, live on the App Store since October 2026.
Public work
- PowerUP, neighborhood islands and a wildfire-shutoff layer for a home-battery fleet. InnovateLA Dual-Use Hackathon (USC, October 2026), Base Power track, team of four; top 20 and poster day.
- BESE tokenizer, a custom-tokenizer submission to OpenAI's Parameter Golf Challenge (1.1276 bits per byte), plus #1665 (BESE + Mamba-3 hybrid) and #1666 (288-entry vocabulary, 1.1531 three-seed mean). All three pull requests are open.
- Shitster / DashOff, browser-only tools that turn a company's own consumer agreement into letters people send themselves.
- Call My Agent, a private browser voice line to a local agent through OpenAI Realtime.
- CellSense, home-battery payback across four battery systems, 16 utilities and 35 rate plans, as a web calculator and a SwiftUI app.
- HazShip, lithium-battery shipping classification under 49 CFR, the IATA DGR and the IMDG Code.
Writing all articles
- What I Learned About Base Power, about 60 hours of primary-source research across ERCOT and CPUC filings.
- Geothermal is in Heat
- Pila Energy: The Permissionless Insight, Not the Battery
- Current War II: Tesla vs Edison
Before this: LADWP commercial lighting rebate projects in the field (Nularis) · an industrial energy-audit program at the Istanbul Chamber of Industry · FDA-clearance work and an Amazon UK and EU launch for a medical IoT device (Spirohome) · founder of Bonjuur and co-founder of Tulip Haus.
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