Why I paused the site-control checker I built for PJM's interconnection queue
TL;DR. I built Zonevex, software that checks whether a developer’s site control would hold up against an RTO’s interconnection-queue rules. It got no paying customers: 2,454 cold emails produced one reply and one booked call1. I paused it in November. Two reasons: PJM, the RTO my free toolkits were built for, was already using an AI tool from Tapestry to review application documents2, and I never found a channel to the people who buy this kind of software. The first is documented. The second is my judgment, not a measurement. ...