COLLECTIVEYou did the work. You earned the revenue. The DR Max Collective makes sure you keep it, not the brokers, aggregators, or ratchet clauses taking your share.
Free to join · No contracts · No sales calls
What you walk away with, free
The Story
California pays facilities to shed load when the grid is stressed. That money should reach the building engineers and ops directors who actually run the sites.
Instead: brokers profit when your bill grows. Aggregators get paid whether you ever dispatch or not. Ratchet clauses lock one bad afternoon into a year of higher rates.
The DR Max Collective exists for one reason: put that money back in the hands of the buildings that earned it.
Free to join. No catch.
No waitlist. No contract. Members get free Maxwell AI bill analysis, DR Max for 10-25% more DR revenue, one year of free DemandQ demand mitigation worth 8-10% off your bill, and a monthly newsletter on where the next dollar is hiding.
What you get when you join
No paywall, no application. Drop your email and you're in.
Maxwell AI reads your utility bills and flags every demand charge, ratchet, capacity fee, and broker margin draining your budget. You walk away with a dollar number: the money the grid already owes your buildings. Free for Collective members.
DR Max runs your demand-response enrollment, dispatch, and settlement on DemandQ automation. Higher share rate, deeper curtailment, no aggregator skimming in between. The revenue that lands in your account is the revenue your buildings actually generated.
One year of free DemandQ demand mitigation. Behind-the-meter automation runs your HVAC and equipment smarter so peaks shrink and energy spend drops. Same equipment, same comfort, 8-10% lower annual bill.
Monthly newsletter for Collective members. California energy market moves, tariff changes, and field-tested savings angles other operators have found. No filler.
From the Manifesto
The Manifesto is short, blunt, and free to read. Here's a taste of it.
The Myth
“Your energy broker is on your side.”
The Reality
Most broker pay scales with the size of your supply contract. The bigger your bill, the bigger their check. Cutting your bill is, mathematically, a pay cut for them.
The Myth
“Your DR aggregator wants you to dispatch.”
The Reality
Many aggregators get paid on enrollment and capacity, not on energy actually curtailed. A facility that never dispatches can be the most profitable facility in their portfolio.
The Myth
“One bad afternoon is a one-month problem.”
The Reality
Ratchet clauses can lock a single fifteen-minute peak into the next eleven months of bills. The math compounds long after the heat wave is over.
Every thesis shows the receipts: where the money goes and how to check it against your own bill. Read the full Manifesto.
The Platform
The pieces that used to need a person at a console now run on their own.
Pre-enrolling now
DR Max. A HEROes tool.
Pre-enrolling now for 2027 across the US. Members of the Collective get access; see where your market sits first.
See DR MaxGreen Button auth, e-sign, eligibility check. Fifteen minutes, done.
Grid calls an event. HEROes signals your BAS directly. No phone tree, no fax, no overnight pages.
IPMVP-compliant M&V runs automatically. You see exactly what you earned, by event, by site.
Straight Answers
The DR Max Collective is a community of California facility operators getting back the demand-response revenue that aggregators, energy brokers, and ratchet clauses have been taking. Live now. Free to join.
Four things. First, free Maxwell AI bill analysis at max.demandq.ai. Point it at your utility bills and read the breakdown on screen, in dollars, of every demand charge, ratchet, capacity fee, and broker margin draining your budget. Second, access to DR Max, DemandQ's demand-response platform that captures 10-25% more revenue than aggregators leave on the table through a higher share rate and deeper curtailment. Third, one year of free DemandQ demand mitigation, behind-the-meter automation that cuts 8-10% off your annual energy bill at the same comfort level. Fourth, a monthly newsletter for Collective members on California energy market shifts, tariff changes, and field-tested ways to keep finding money.
No. Membership is free. No contracts, no commitments, no setup fees. Leave any time.
No. You're handed straight to Maxwell AI at max.demandq.ai for self-serve bill analysis, and a short welcome email with the same access link lands in your inbox so you can come back to it later. No follow-up call. If you want a conversation, you start it.
California commercial facility operators in PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E service territories. Building engineers, multi-site retail and QSR operators, hospitality, telecom site managers, university facilities, banking, and similar verticals.
Drop your work email. Free bill analysis, 10-25% more DR revenue, a year of free demand mitigation, and monthly market notes. No contracts. No sales calls. No middleman taking your share.
California operators only. No sales calls. We never share your data. Leave any time.