Pay less for electricity.
Pay nothing to switch.
Foundation-1 migrates businesses to cheaper power. Our Machine Intelligence reads your bills, finds your savings, and manages the whole migration. You pay nothing until your new power is live. From that day, you pay less.
R0
To start, audit, design and build
30 seconds
To your first savings number
Up to ~60%
For qualifying sites
Day one
Savings start at the switch
What it costs you
Nothing, until the switch.
R0 to start. R0 to audit. R0 to design. R0 to build. You pay nothing until your new power is live and the switch has happened. Then you simply pay less.
R0
The audit
We read every line of your bills and show you the savings, free.
R0
The design and build
The infrastructure is funded, engineered and installed at no cost to you.
R0 until live
The switch
You pay nothing end to end until your system is live and the switch happens. Then one thing changes: your bill gets smaller.
Machine Intelligence
A machine reads your bills.
Nobody else does.
Every provider sells what they own. Our Machine Intelligence works the other way: it reads your actual invoices line by line, checks every charge, and compares every route: solar on your roof, cheaper power through the grid, finance, or a blend. Then it recommends what is best for you, with the numbers to prove it.
The operating layer
One energy case.
No broken chain.
Most energy projects fragment across spreadsheets, installers, funders and inboxes. Foundation-1 holds the decision chain together without pretending every site needs the same product.
Case modules
Preliminary migration intelligence
Production energy · Free State
R 184k
Current monthly path
R 127k–146k
Modelled range
21–31%
Indicative movement
6 / 6
Utility bills
10-year utility path
6.0% escalatorInfrastructure intelligence
See the system.
Not just the hardware.
Critical
Load
Unified
Control
Visible
Flow
Energy pathways and finance
Two energy paths.One ownership option.
Foundation-1 installs and owns Eden's on-site infrastructure. Awaken wheels clean energy from Foundation-1's generation asset. Nightshade finances acquisition of the approved Eden infrastructure.
Eden
Solar and storage on your site. R0 to build: Foundation-1 funds, installs and owns the system, and you simply buy its power at a lower rate. Up to 35% off from day one.
R0
To design and build
Energy only
You buy power, not equipment
Up to 35%
Off from day one
Awaken
Cheaper power delivered through the same Eskom line you already have. Your lights do not flicker; only the price changes. It reaches the night, seasonal and process load that solar cannot.
Same line
Your existing connection
Up to 58%
Savings from day one
Nothing
To install on site
Nightshade
Own the system with one flat rate for ten years. No surprises, no escalation: savings of up to 35% and one flat rate per unit for the full 120 months.
Up to 35%
Current-spend saving
120 months
One flat rate
0%
Annual increase
Energy mix: Eden covers the load your site can generate. Awaken wheels clean energy to the remainder.
Ownership: Nightshade finances acquisition of the approved Eden infrastructure.
Controlled progression
Complex beneath.
Clear at every gate.
Screen
Start with operating figures. No utility bill leaves your business.
Evidence
Submit the 6 most recent utility bills together when you choose to proceed.
Migration Report
Your Foundation-1 Migration Report: every charge audited, every pathway compared, your real number.
Authorize
Sign the non-binding expression of interest to unlock formal proposals. Nothing is binding.
Proposals
Formal zero-capex proposals arrive from the migration stack, priced for your site.
Verification
Foundation-1 handles the standard know-your-customer checks on the secure case.
Term sheet
After verification, the funder issues the term sheet. Nothing is binding until you sign it.
Migration
Engineering, installation and energisation follow the term sheet. You pay R0 end to end until your new power is live.
Savings from day one
The lower rate applies from the first unit delivered, and the case verifies it against every bill that follows.
Built around production
When energy fails,
operations cannot.
A production business does not buy electrons in the abstract. It protects cold rooms, pumps, pack lines, livestock environments and narrow harvest windows. The migration case starts there.
01
Packhouses
02
Cold chains
03
Poultry
04
Irrigation
05
Processing
06
Agri-retail
New to energy migration?
Three 90-second reads.
Then decide.
The category is new, so we explain it in plain language. Each read takes about 90 seconds and answers one question a business owner actually asks.
What is an energy migration?
What actually changes, what stays the same, and why your bill gets smaller.
Why your electricity bill keeps rising
Tariffs have compounded at around 13 percent a year. Doing nothing is the expensive decision.
What zero-capex means
How you get new energy infrastructure without buying it, and why it costs you R0 until you are live.
Trust architecture
The right data.
In the right hands.
Initial screen
Operating inputs only. No utility bill is required.
Evidence audit
The 6 most recent utility bills arrive as one deliberate pack.
Verification
Foundation-1 handles the standard know-your-customer checks on the secure, case-specific workflow.
Term-sheet ownership
The funder issues Eden terms directly. Foundation-1 issues and owns the Awaken wheeling term sheet.
Your first decision surface
Know your number.
Then move.
See your savings number in 30 seconds. No documents, no commitment, and you pay R0 until your new power is live.
See my savings