Intelligence

The brief you
wish you had time
to write.

Polished, client-ready market briefs on a cadence. Forward curves, regulatory updates, demand outlooks, state-by-state rate notes — written for the person sitting across from the customer.

spring-rate-lock_illinois.pdf
Energy Brief · May 2026
Lock Now? The Illinois Natural Gas Spring Window.
  • Shoulder season pricing opens a constructive window through May before summer cooling demand builds.
  • Winter Storm Fern reset the volatility regime — forwards repriced higher into 2027.
  • EIA forecasts trend higher on LNG export growth and AI/data-center load.
SOURCES · EIA · ICE · NICOR + PEOPLES GAS PUC FILINGS
PREPARED FOR [CLIENT] BY [ADVISOR]
What You Get

One-pagers, monthly.
Customs, on call.

Three formats, one editorial voice. Pick what fits your customer cadence, your sales cycle, and the level of branding you want on the page.

01 — CADENCE

Monthly Brief

A one-page market brief delivered the first week of each month. Forward curve read, the regulatory items that matter, one or two state spotlights, and a clear "what to do about it." Designed to land in a customer's inbox or sit on top of a meeting agenda.

02 — COMMISSIONED

Custom Brief

One-off brief on a topic your book needs. A specific state, a vertical (manufacturing, healthcare, real estate), a regulatory event, a renewal decision. Scoped on the call, delivered inside a week.

03 — CO-BRANDED

Your Logo,
Our Read

Same editorial, your masthead. Briefs delivered as InDesign-quality PDFs with your firm's logo, colors, and signature line. Your customer reads it as your team's work — because it's a piece you stand behind.

Sample

What a brief
looks like.

A real example — the Illinois natural gas spring brief from May 2026. The actual file is two pages; what's shown here is the front page, in the format your customer would receive it.

spring-rate-lock_illinois.pdf
ENERGY BRIEF MAY 2026

Lock Now? The Illinois Natural Gas Spring Window.

The Market
  • Shoulder season pricing has opened a constructive window through May, before summer cooling demand re-tightens the curve.
  • Winter Storm Fern reset the volatility regime in Q1, with forward prices repricing higher into 2027.
What's Pushing Forwards Higher
  • LNG export demand growing as new terminals come online through 2027.
  • AI / data center load adding a new structural buyer to the gas curve.
  • Nicor and Peoples Gas have rate-hike filings active at the ICC.
SOURCES · EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook · ICE forwards · Nicor Gas + Peoples Gas tariff filings at the Illinois Commerce Commission
PREPARED FOR [CLIENT NAME] [ADVISOR] · [FIRM]
Why Briefs Like This Land

Built like advice.
Not a newsletter.

Every brief follows the same shape: what's true about the market right now, what's driving it, what the implication is for the customer's decision. Sources cited inline. Nothing filler. A customer can read it in three minutes and feel like they understand the season.

  • One page, two if the topic earns it
  • Sources line on every brief
  • Customer-ready language — no jargon you'd have to translate
  • Co-brandable with your firm's identity
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Coverage

What we track.

The topic areas we follow continuously so a brief is always available when a customer conversation needs it. Custom briefs can go deeper on any one of these — or anywhere they intersect.

01

Forward
Curves

NYMEX natural gas, regional power, basis spreads. Where the curve is, where it's been, what's moving it. Translated into "lock now or wait" in language a customer can use.

NYMEX POWER BASIS
02

Regulatory
& Tariffs

State PUC filings, capacity market changes, federal policy shifts. The decisions made in Springfield, Albany, and Austin that change what your customer's bill looks like next year.

PUC CAPACITY FERC
03

Demand
& Supply

LNG export growth, AI and data center load, generation retirements, renewables additions. The structural forces redrawing the supply stack — and what they mean for forward prices.

LNG DATA CENTERS GEN MIX
04

State Rate
Environments

Deregulated market snapshots — Illinois, Texas, PJM states, the Northeast. Utility delivery rate trajectories, supplier dynamics, the moments worth knowing about in each.

IL TX PJM NE
05

Sector
Notes

Efficiency program economics, demand response markets, distributed energy resource trends, sustainability mandates. The adjacent revenue lines your customers care about beyond pure supply.

EE DR DER
06

Macro
& Weather

Geopolitical risk, NOAA seasonal outlooks, hurricane-season Gulf production exposure. The variables that show up in a customer's bill three months later — flagged before they do.

GEO NOAA GULF
In The Wild

How partners
put it to work.

Three patterns we see across the partners using the briefs. Most teams settle into one or two — but the format flexes to all three.

01

Open the
meeting.

The brief lands the day before a client call. The advisor walks in with a point of view instead of a status update. Five minutes in, the customer is asking the kind of question you actually want to be asked — "so what does that mean for our June renewal?"

02

Frame the
renewal.

The hardest customer question — "lock now or wait?" — is no longer answered with gut feel. The brief is the back-up. Forward curve, regulatory backdrop, demand outlook, all on one page. The recommendation lands because it's defensible.

03

Build
authority.

Twelve briefs a year, your logo on every one. The customer reads your firm's perspective monthly, whether or not there's a deal pending. By the time the next RFP comes around, you're not pitching for a slot — you've already earned it.

Access

How to get
the briefs.

Three paths in, depending on what your book needs. Pricing is conversation-shaped — based on number of customers, branding, and depth — not a website price list.

PATH 01

Subscribe to the cadence.

Get the monthly brief delivered to your inbox, ready to forward or republish. The simplest way to start — see if the editorial voice fits your book before scaling up.

Start a Subscription
PATH 02

Commission a custom brief.

Have a specific decision your customer is sitting on, or a vertical your book is heavy in? We'll scope and deliver a brief built for it — usually inside a week of the call.

Commission a Brief
PATH 03

Go co-branded.

Your firm's identity on every brief. Designed to be the piece of intelligence your customer associates with you, delivered on a cadence that keeps you in the conversation between cycles.

Talk Co-branding
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Email us with the kind of customer you serve and the state(s) you're heaviest in. We'll send back the most relevant sample brief from the archive, plus a quick note on how the cadence and co-branding work.