# Cut energy 15% without guest comfort hits

Harbor by Signalry · hotel job `cut-energy-without-comfort-hits`
https://harbor.signalry.ai/jobs/cut-energy-without-comfort-hits

How and who for the hotel job—verified when attested. Advice unless labeled verified. This brief is a worksheet, not an appraisal and not a quote.

## The job

When the utility line is eating GOP, I want a savings plan that treats comfort as a constraint so we do not trade five-star sleep for a greener invoice.

**Outcome the catalog names:** At least 12–15% kWh or a documented 'cannot hit 15 without comfort' memo, with temperature comments flat or down.

**Desk:** ops
**Urgency on the catalog:** This year
**Typical budget band (catalog, not a quote):** $20–80k plus any hardware
**Typical timeline (catalog, not a promise):** 1–2 heating/cooling seasons to prove

## Scoped brief

Meter, then sequence, then behave. A contractor who will kill a setpoint that produces comfort comments is worth more than a dashboard. Software can overlay complaints on kWh. An agent can suggest schedules. A human applies the setpoint. Shared-savings deals must be readable.

1. **Meter by floor and daypart.** If you cannot see laundry, kitchen, and guest floors apart, you will cut the wrong thing. A monitor without a contractor is still useful — it is not the job done.
2. **Sequence the work that actually pays.** Controls, lighting, and heat recovery beat a poster in the linen room. Write the 'do nothing' case. Write the capex.
3. **Put comfort on the same page as kWh.** Temperature comments are a kill-switch. If they rise, you roll back and you say so. That clause belongs in the contract.
4. **Loop daily after the project.** An agent can propose schedules against occupancy. The engineer or GM applies them. Auto-setpoint is how you freeze a fourth floor at 2 a.m.

## When not to buy

A setpoint dump that treats guest comments as acceptable collateral. Comfort is a kill-switch, not a footnote.

## Provider shortlist

- [Copperline Energy](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/copperline) — people · Hotel energy without comfort hits. Catalog score 8.6 (post-job shape, not a verification).
- [Kilowatt Hall](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/kilowatt-hall) — software · Hotel energy monitoring. Catalog score 7.7 (post-job shape, not a verification).
- [Energy Loop Agent](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/energy-loop) — agent · Setpoint & schedule suggestions. Catalog score 7.8 (post-job shape, not a verification).
- [Vale Street Capex](https://harbor.signalry.ai/providers/vale-street) — people · Rooms vs public-space capex. Catalog score 8.3 (post-job shape, not a verification).

## Success the brief names

- kWh or $ utility vs weather-normalized baseline.
- Temperature comments flat or down.
- A written kill-switch that has been tested.

## Pitfalls

- Savings claimed before weather-normalization.
- An agent that can push setpoints unattended.
- Ignoring laundry heat because the lobby lights were easier.

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Stable id: `cut-energy-without-comfort-hits`
Source: Harbor by Signalry · https://harbor.signalry.ai
Verified Outcome is not insurance. Do not treat a catalog score as attested proof.