From 15 Days to 4 Minutes: Inside Riveron’s AI Transformation for a Global Energy Storage Leader

Challenges

A global energy storage company with a market cap of more than $2 billion needed a massive overhaul of its quoting and project financial management processes. Deploying large-scale battery storage systems around the world, the company’s projects are technically complex, financial significant, and built on a custom configuration, requiring a sales and quoting process that is anything but routine.

Putting together a quote meant starting in Excel, pulling data from Salesforce, manually checking the configuration against internal compliance standards, and revising whenever something missed the mark. That process took eight days to build the quote, and another seven for compliance review, with non-compliant quotes resetting the clock entirely.

On the project financial management side, Oracle, Primavera, SAP, and internal systems each held pieces of the financial picture, but there was no unified view. Project Financial Managers (PFMs) were manually pulling commitments and actuals into Excel every month, validating Estimate at Completion submissions by hand, and building journal entries from data scattered across platforms. It was slow, error-prone, and nearly impossible to audit cleanly.

The data needed to solve both problems already existed—spread across Oracle, Primavera, SAP, and Salesforce. It just wasn’t connected, and it certainly wasn’t working. What was missing was the expertise to architect how AI could activate it: where to apply it, how to integrate it across systems that weren’t built to talk to each other, and how to build something that would hold up at enterprise scale. That’s what Riveron was engaged to do.

How we helped

Riveron built two AI co-pilots on Google Cloud Platform using Vertex AI and designed to work inside the client’s existing systems.

Quoting and Configuration

The quoting co-pilot integrates directly with Salesforce and internal data sources, handling the work that used to require days of manual effort:

  • Real-time compliance checks: The co-pilot automatically validates each solution against internal standard operating guidelines as it’s being built, flagging deviations long before they become lengthy revision cycles.
  • Winning quote intelligence: Using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) against historical approved quotes, the system surfaces similar winning bids and their key attributes, giving sales teams a benchmark grounded in what’s worked previously
  • Override transparency: Any manual override to a recommended configuration is logged and documented automatically, creating a clear audit trail for approvals and continuous improvement without extra administrative work.
  • Margin guardrails: The co-pilot validates that solutions meet profitability thresholds before they move forward, removing a common source of late-stage rework.

Project Systems Co-Pilot

The project financial management co-pilot connects Oracle Primavera and SAP through a unified interface, replacing the fragmented, Excel-heavy process that PFMs relied on before:

  • Natural language access: Instead of navigating complex system interfaces, PFMs can ask the co-pilot questions in plain language and get answers for budget summaries, commitment vs. actual comparisons, key transaction highlights, and more—all pulled in real time from the underlying data.
  • Streamlined month-end close: The before-state required Excel, manual data collation across systems, and a multi-step validate-and-approve cycle before journal entries could be created. The after-state runs through a projects unifier that consolidates the data, with AI providing contextual guidance at the review and submission stage.

Results

The quoting co-pilot turned a 15-plus-day process into one measured in minutes:

  • Quote creation time dropped from 8 days to under 4 minutes.
  • Compliance checks went from 7 days to under 1 minute.
  • Approval cycle times improved, supported by historical data that helps build winning quotes from the start rather than revising toward compliance after the fact.
 

On the project management side, the manual month-end process that ran across Excel and multiple disconnected systems now flows through a single unified interface. PFMs spend less time gathering and validating data, and more time acting on it.

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