Evardi launched with AI agents that model electric grids, 10M customers served

A storm knocks out power and a utility has to decide which crews go where. Evardi launched on Y Combinator Fall 2026 to make that call faster. The company builds AI agents that model an electricity grid from the substation to every meter. Diva Shah and Aarya are the founders. The company says its tools already run at utilities serving "nearly 10 million customers". The YC batch is Fall 2026.

The pitch, from the YC page: "agents that engineer the grid edge". The agents match each meter to its transformer. After a storm, they find which transformers are still dark. They test outage response plans before the utility sends them to the field. They also flag switches that failed before, so a crew does not try them again.

What the numbers say

Evardi's own site states its results so far. In storm drills, it says it restored power to "63% more customers". It says it "pinpointed the source of outages 10x more often". It says "94% of outage minutes start below the substation, where SCADA can't see". It says "61% of inspections find a real problem, vs 6% from billing flags". It says "60% of switching errors" are caught before the field. It says "42% fewer unsafe switching actions in storm drills". These are Evardi's own figures, not independent measurements.

The company lists its deployments as "National utility", "Investor-owned" and "Cooperative". It names no utility. For context, US power outages cost "$121B in a single year", which Evardi cites as the problem size.

The customer and the price

The target is an electricity distribution utility. The YC page says Evardi works with "180,000+" miles of line. The YC batch is Fall 2026. No pricing is listed on the launch page or on the company site. The YC page lists no funding amount. The company site says Evardi is "backed by Y Combinator, SF1 and Browder Capital".

Evardi runs the grid model on a utility's own data. The site says: "Your data never trains a shared model. Encrypted in transit and at rest." That matters because a utility cannot send customer meter data to a shared cloud.

Why it is not just dashboards

A utility already has a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system, called SCADA. The gap is that SCADA mainly watches the substations. Evardi's claim is that most outage minutes start below the substation, out of SCADA's view. A model fed by smart meters and outage calls can see the dark transformers. A model that also reads the switching plan can test the plan before a crew moves.

The honest test for Evardi is whether a drill result survives a real storm. The 63 percent restoration number comes from drills, which are controlled. A crew in the field at 2am handles things a drill cannot plan for. One restoration figure from a named utility, after a real outage, would move the claim to proof.

Source

• Primary source: Evardi on Y Combinator.
• Company site: Evardi.