Open collaboration
Open at the interface. Protected at the model.
Electrifying the waterways is bigger than one company. Every hour a vendor, electrician or town spends re-solving a problem we have already solved is an hour not spent putting power on a dock. So we publish the interfaces — and we are equally clear about the commercial model we do not publish, because a company that cannot fund itself electrifies nothing.
Four tiers, no judgement calls
Everything we build sits in exactly one tier. Our engineers never have to guess whether their work can be shared, and a partner never has to wonder what we are able to send.
Published under a permissive licence for anyone to use, including competitors.
Typically: Interop profiles, enclosure reference drawings, tooling, test harnesses.
Released to a named counterparty under an evaluation or confidentiality agreement.
Typically: Evaluation methods, assessment structures, integration specifics.
Internal. Disclosed per deal, under confidentiality, never published.
Typically: Host lease and revenue-share terms, dispatch ranking policy.
Never leaves the vault. No exception process, no partial release.
Typically: Estimator coefficients, block pricing and the discount schedule.
Capacity, commercial terms, pricing and the underlying model are released after your request is reviewed, under confidentiality.
What we have opened
V2G interoperability profiles
Our tested mapping of bidirectional charging message flows against real marine and RV pedestal hardware, so a vendor or EPC can integrate without rediscovering it.
Pedestal enclosure reference drawings
Dimensioned reference drawings and derating notes for dockside enclosures in salt-spray environments, so a marina electrician can plan a compliant install.
Municipal evaluation method
The avoided-cost structure a town uses to evaluate a resilience hub, released to councils under an evaluation agreement.
Working on hardware, standards or a municipal evaluation and want one of these? Ask us. Open material comes with its licence attached; material shared under agreement comes with a short evaluation agreement.
How the decision is made
Opening something at GridLynQ is a decision with a name on it, not a mood. These are the rules our own team works to.
Rule 1
Default open at the interface, closed at the model
Anything that helps another party connect to us — protocols, drawings, schemas, tooling — starts as a candidate to open. Anything that prices our offer, values a site or defines a host's terms starts sealed. Engineers never have to guess which side of the line their work falls on.
Rule 2
Every release names its traction
A proposal to open something must name the commercial benefit and the metric that will show it: a shorter partner integration, a faster council decision, a stronger engineering funnel. Publishing without a stated benefit is not generosity, it is leakage. The database refuses a release with no rationale.
Rule 3
Exposure review is written down, not assumed
Each proposal records what was stripped before release — supplier lists, unit costs, calibrated coefficients, customer data. The reviewer is naming the exposure, so a later reader can check the judgement rather than trust it.
Rule 4
Leadership signs off; the record is permanent
Only admin or leadership can move something to approved or published, and every tier and status change is logged with the actor. Nothing is opened informally, and nothing quietly moves back.
Rule 5
Contribution is rewarded on the record, not on vibes
Recognition points are awarded for work that reached the record: a published component, an upstream fix, a standards contribution, a review that caught an exposure. That ledger is what performance conversations and the contributor ladder read from.
For the people who build
Contribution is on the record. Published components, upstream fixes, standards work and the reviews that catch an exposure all earn recognition, and that ledger — not impressions — feeds review authority, conference budget and the contributor ladder.
For the people who fund
Nothing is opened without a named commercial benefit, a written exposure review and a leadership signature, and every decision is logged. The pricing model, the host terms and the calibrated estimators are sealed and stay that way.
For the people who host
Your site data, your utility bills and your negotiated terms are never publishable material — not at any tier, not for any reason. Open collaboration applies to our own engineering, never to your business.
Electrify the waterways faster than we could alone
If you build pedestals, inverters, batteries, marina software or municipal policy, there is a version of this where we both move faster. Tell us what you are trying to connect to.