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Karl Christiaens · London

Customer acquisition systems for the energy industry.

An Imperial-trained engineer and former investment analyst at Gresham House’s New Energy fund, now building the outbound infrastructure energy companies don’t have.

Book a call Fifteen minutes. If it isn’t a fit, I’ll say so.
01 Systems

Each system is built once, documented, and handed over as an asset you own.

01 Customer acquisition Market map, data, messaging, channels, CRM, AI layers, reporting.
02 Procurement Supplier and vendor sourcing.
03 Hiring Candidate sourcing and outreach.
04 Operations Automation around pipeline and reporting.
02 Who it’s for

Find your firm. Each system is built around how that segment wins work, and what it needs to source.

Select a segment to see what gets built and why.

← All segments
Capital & advisory

Energy funds and M&A advisers

Divestments, co-investment and mandates all run on relationships held by a handful of people. When the counterparty is needed, the list gets rebuilt from memory.

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What gets built

Divestment outreach systems for energy funds.

multi-channel

Co-investor outreach systems for energy funds.

email

Mandate origination systems for energy M&A advisory firms.

email
Signals it runs on
asset transactionsfunding roundsmandates
Capital & advisory

Energy law firms

Business development sits with partners who are already billing. It happens when the diary allows.

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What gets built

Business development systems for energy law firms.

email
Signals it runs on
funding roundsasset transactions
Capital & advisory

Technical due diligence firms

Work comes from the funds and lenders who happen to remember you. Coverage of the ones who do not is thin.

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What gets built

Mandate outreach systems for technical due diligence firms.

email
Signals it runs on
mandatesasset transactions
Capital & advisory

Energy insurance brokers

Projects are insured early. Reaching the developer before the placement is decided is the whole question.

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What gets built

New project outreach systems for energy insurance brokers.

email
Signals it runs on
planning approvalsfunding rounds
Development & delivery

Energy project developers

Selling a project and securing the land are both outreach problems. Buyers are a small, known universe; landowners are not reachable by email.

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What gets built

Asset sales systems for energy project developers.

email

Landowner outreach systems for energy project developers.

direct mail
Signals it runs on
planning approvalsgrid connection milestones
Development & delivery

Energy EPC contractors

The sales cycle runs long and starts with developers you are not yet talking to. Nothing keeps the top of that funnel filled.

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What gets built

Developer outreach systems for energy EPC contractors.

email
Signals it runs on
planning approvalsfunding rounds
Development & delivery

Solar installers

Commercial work is sold differently to residential. It needs a deliberate approach to site owners and operators, not inbound.

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What gets built

Commercial outreach systems for solar installers.

email
Signals it runs on
planning approvalscontract end dates
Development & delivery

Grid connection consultancies

Connections reform changes what clients need and when. The firms affected are identifiable; most are not being contacted.

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What gets built

Reform outreach systems for grid connection consultancies.

email
Signals it runs on
grid connection milestonescapacity auctions
Assets & operations

Solar O&M providers

Portfolios change hands and contracts come up for renewal. Both are visible if someone is watching for them.

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What gets built

New portfolio outreach systems for solar O&M providers.

email
Signals it runs on
asset transactionscontract end dates
Assets & operations

Flexibility aggregators

Growth depends on recruiting assets, which is prospecting spread across many small owners.

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What gets built

Asset recruitment systems for flexibility aggregators.

email
Signals it runs on
capacity auctionsgrid connection milestones
Assets & operations

EV charging operators

Sites are the constraint. Landlords, operators and councils each need a different approach.

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What gets built

Site acquisition systems for EV charging operators.

email
Signals it runs on
planning approvalsfunding rounds
Assets & operations

ESCOs

Enquiries are numerous and uneven. Qualifying them properly takes time the technical team does not have.

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What gets built

Prospect qualification systems for ESCOs.

email
Signals it runs on
contract end dates
Supply & commercial services

Energy component distributors

Volume follows installers; project supply follows developers. Two audiences, two systems.

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What gets built

Installer acquisition systems for energy component distributors.

email

Project supply outreach systems for energy component distributors.

email
Signals it runs on
planning approvalsfunding rounds
Supply & commercial services

Business energy brokers

Contract end dates decide the conversation. Reaching the right person before renewal is settled is the only thing that matters.

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What gets built

Contract renewal outreach systems for business energy brokers.

multi-channel
Signals it runs on
contract end dates
Supply & commercial services

PPA brokers

Generators are easy to find. Corporate buyers with an actual mandate are not.

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What gets built

Buyer prospecting systems for PPA brokers.

email
Signals it runs on
capacity auctionscontract end dates
Supply & commercial services

Energy metering companies

Growth comes portfolio by portfolio, through the owners and managers who control many sites.

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What gets built

Portfolio outreach systems for energy metering companies.

email
Signals it runs on
asset transactionscontract end dates
Capital & advisory
01 Energy funds and M&A advisers
02 Energy law firms
03 Technical due diligence firms
04 Energy insurance brokers
Development & delivery
05 Energy project developers
06 Energy EPC contractors
07 Solar installers
08 Grid connection consultancies
Assets & operations
09 Solar O&M providers
10 Flexibility aggregators
11 EV charging operators
12 ESCOs
Supply & commercial services
13 Energy component distributors
14 Business energy brokers
15 PPA brokers
16 Energy metering companies

Focus is small and medium-sized firms, not majors.

03 Why me

Karl Christiaens, London

Built by someone who has sat on the other side of the table.

Investment Analyst, Gresham House New Energy

The energy transition investment team.

MSc in renewable energy

Imperial College London.

Data and AI, inside energy and out

AI and cloud solutions work with IBM. Data analyst at a UK independent power producer.

Transactions worked on as part of the deal team at Gresham House New Energy: a $20m equity co-investment and $400m of debt refinancing.

I have sat inside the capital stack of energy transition assets and seen how these firms originate, diligence and win work. I now build the acquisition systems that side of the industry has never had.

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04 Three phases, two sign-offs
01 Audit

Map the commercial engine, the ICP, and where revenue leaks.

Sign-off gate
02 Build

Construct the system, tested and documented.

Sign-off gate
03 Operate

Run it, iterate on real reply and conversion data, hand over an asset the client owns.

Founding clients

A new practice, taking on a small number of founding clients on performance-weighted terms.

More of the fee at risk, in exchange for the right to use the results as a reference. Engagement fee, retainer, and performance-based compensation, with performance intended as the largest component. Full terms.

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Outreachable Solutions

Karl Christiaens
London

Outreachable Solutions Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 17095468. Registered office: Apartment 26 Regency House, Imperial Wharf, London SW6 2SB.