25 years in Canadian utilities. One mission in Mexico.

I spent the last 25 years inside the Canadian utility industry — working with electric distributors, gas utilities, water authorities, and municipalities to modernize how they capture, govern, and use infrastructure data. Records rebuilds after decades of paper-era drift. GIS platform migrations. Safety and damage-prevention programs. Field digitization for crews who'd spent their careers working from paper maps.

The problems are never purely technical. They're organizational: who owns the data, who trusts it, who maintains it, who gets blamed when it's wrong. Canadian utilities, under pressure from regulators and public accountability, developed rigorous answers to these questions. Those answers — the methodologies, the governance frameworks, the field workflows — are what we're bringing to Mexico.

Mexico's utility sector is in the middle of a generational modernization. Grid reform, pipeline expansion, municipal water pressure, and the build-out of renewables are all converging on the same underlying challenge: infrastructure records that can be trusted. The utilities that solve this well will operate more safely, respond to outages faster, pass audits without scrambling, and deliver capital projects on budget.

That's the work. That's why we're here.

Why Mexico. Why now.

Mexico's infrastructure is entering a decade of intense pressure: CFE modernization, pipeline expansion, renewable interconnection, accelerating urbanization, and tightening regulatory oversight. Every one of those pressures ultimately becomes a records problem — and records problems cost utilities far more than the software required to solve them.

Canadian utilities went through an analogous transition twenty years ago. The playbooks work. The question is whether they get applied with enough discipline, and whether the knowledge transfers to local teams who will own the systems long after a consulting engagement ends. We designed Rainbow ACS around answering both.

How we work.