90-day paid pilot
Prove the carbon data pipeline
on one real facility.
VantageHSG runs focused pilots for Ontario manufacturers: choose a 90-day paid compliance pilot with credit card locked, or test our new **Data-Reconciliation Engine** with a free raw historian/PLC data ingestion pilot.
Pilot package
Not a free consulting engagement. A paid proof of pipeline fit.
The pilot is designed to answer one question: can your facility's real operating data be converted into a defensible carbon number faster, cheaper, and with more lineage than the spreadsheet process you use today?
Connect the messy source
Start with MTCs, fuel slips, LIMS exports, SAP reports, utility bills, moisture readings, or bath chemistry logs — whichever source is painful enough to prove value.
Normalize units and lineage
Convert wet tonnes to dry tonnes, GJ to MMBtu, tonnes to kg, and keep every source document, transformation, operator, and timestamp in the ledger.
Run the carbon math
Apply version-pinned ECCC, IESO, EEIO, or customer-provided factors. Where process data is rich, calculate from first principles and mass balance.
Deliver the report
Produce a sample carbon report with assumptions, source lineage, variance, missing data, and a clear recommendation for paid deployment.
What we measure
Success has to be measurable before you expand.
We do not sell a dashboard first. We prove the data layer. The pilot scorecard is built around ingestion quality, math accuracy, audit completeness, and whether your team would pay to remove the spreadsheet layer.
- Source ingestion rate — what percentage of eligible MTCs, slips, and exports were parsed without manual re-entry.
- Unit normalization accuracy — wet/dry, energy, mass, and currency conversions checked against known baselines.
- Mass balance closure — input, output, loss, scrap, and variance tracked by product line or facility.
- Audit ledger completeness — every factor, source document, and transformation traceable to a timestamped record.
- Report turnaround — days from source data to usable carbon number, compared with the current workflow.
Pilot scorecard
| Metric | Baseline | Pilot target |
|---|---|---|
| Source data parsed | Manual spreadsheets | ≥ 70% eligible docs |
| Unit conversions | Human review | 100% traceable |
| Mass balance | Not tracked | Variance reported |
| Audit trail | PDF or folder | Immutable ledger |
| Report turnaround | Quarterly / annual | Within 7 days |
Timeline
Four weeks to first report. Ninety days to deployment decision.
| Phase | Duration | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Scope lock | Week 1 | Choose facility, product line, data sources, report format, and success metrics. |
| 2. Ingest + normalize | Weeks 1–3 | Source docs parsed, units normalized, lineage captured, exceptions flagged. |
| 3. Calculate + reconcile | Weeks 3–5 | Mass balance, emission factor application, variance review, and assumptions log. |
| 4. Report + decision | Weeks 5–12 | Sample carbon report, audit ledger export, deployment plan, and paid conversion path. |
Conversion milestones
From pilot to paid, on a deadline you control.
A pilot with no paid conversion event is a cost centre. The pilot is designed so you know exactly when to convert, what you'll pay if you do, and what you'll pay if you don't.
| Milestone | Day | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Pilot kickoff | Day 0 | Credit card on file ($1 validation charge). Conversion price locked in writing. |
| Sample report | Day 7 | First 14-day report delivered. Sets the standard for what you'll get continuously at the converted tier. |
| Mid-point review | Day 30 | Specific ROI surfaced: hours saved on NPRI prep, errors caught, OBPS exposure quantified. |
| Conversion checkpoint | Day 45 | Quote with $500/month discount if you convert before Day 75. |
| Conversion deadline | Day 75 | Discount expires. Published pricing applies at Day 90. |
| Pilot end | Day 90 | Customer on published pricing, or off. Either way, you keep the ledger and all reports generated during the pilot. |
Why a credit card on file? Research consistently shows credit-card-upfront trials convert at 48.8% vs 30.6% for opt-in trials. The card is charged $1 at signup to validate; pilot fee is waived for the first three customers who sign this month. Stripe Checkout integration is wired at signup.
No-cost data proof
Worried about noisy spreadsheets, historian tags, or sensor gaps?
Many carbon tools are built for general ESG reporting, not for real factory operations. In heavy industry, raw data sits in machines, PLC historians, or messy spreadsheets. Connecting it is hard, and making the data reliable for audit decisions is harder.
To prove our pipeline on your actual operational technology (OT) data, we offer a **Free Historian & PLC Tag-Map Pilot**:
- Historian Ingestion — Send us raw, messy tag CSV extracts from OSIsoft PI, Rockwell, WinCC, or Honeywell.
- Sensor Noise Filtering — Moving average smoothing and Kalman filters filter out mechanical sensor calibration spikes.
- Telemetry Gap Imputation — Linear and operational baseline interpolation reconstructs values during sensor network outages.
- Stoichiometric Mass Balance — We run our mass conservation model to reconcile physical flow meters against supplier invoices.
- Zero Upfront Commitment — Waive the credit-card-on-file requirement. Verify data reliability before you pay a dollar.
Free Ingestion Trial
Submit a raw historian dataset (up to 1,000 tags) or a dirty PLC export. We will return a standardized, cleaned database mapping with continuous mass-balance audits and sensor gap reports.
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If the pipeline works, you keep the system.
If it doesn't, you still get the ledger.
Starter starts at $299/month for a single facility. Growth starts at $799/month when you need full NPRI + OBPS v2.0 with a verifier-ready reproducibility test. Enterprise starts at $1,999/month for multi-boundary, parent rollup, and CBAM XML export.
Pilot customers who convert before Day 75 lock $500/month off published pricing for 24 months.