Independence' has 3 key meanings in this case: Corporate Ownership, Product Offering and Impartiality.

1) Corporate Ownership - Origami's shareholders are financial backers. Origami is not part of a bigger/parent company e.g. an energy business, route-to-market provider (RTM) or an engineering-procurement-construction company (EPC). In many cases, if there is a technology subsidiary company within a broader parent company structure, the technology is often not the primary focus (non-core). The parent company also has a commercially vested interest in providing its core offering - e.g. selling energy; or selling batteries. Origami isn't motivated in this way.

2) Product Offering - Origami's software product and the associated data is deliberately decoupled (by design) from the traditional supply chain vendors (e.g. RTM, EPC, operations & maintenance providers O&M), which enables Origami's customers to choose their own suppliers of equipment, services, monetisation.

3) Impartiality: Origami is not a route-to-market provider (RTM) or an Optimiser. You may see us on National Grid auction results pages because we're often testing our software, which our BESS customers use to contract capacity with National Grid. We are always at the forefront of any market changes so we're constantly developing and testing our software. Part of this testing is entering into 'mock auctions' and acting as an Origami audience surrogate or proxy.