MAiZE is the development risk intelligence standard for capital allocation.

Navigating the complexity of infrastructure development requires more than a financial model. MAiZE is an AI-assisted decision instrument that provides institutional investors with defensible, evidence-backed clarity on development risk.

Not a workflow platform. A structured decision instrument.

Financial models rarely fail; development assumptions do. Mispriced development risk drives underperformance, deal attrition, and capital lock-up. If risk cannot be reasonably mitigated within the development timeline, capital should not be deployed.

MAiZE evaluates risk across grid access, permitting, stakeholder dynamics, land control, supply chain, and capital sensitivity—producing a delay-adjusted value impact overlay on the asset owner’s base case.

The MAiZE Value Impact Trajectory

A deterministic, time-based view of how development risk reshapes asset viability. We provide IC-ready intelligence for development-stage renewable and infrastructure assets across the US and Canada.

Each assessment delivers:

  • Decisive Output: A clear, evidence-backed recommendation to INVEST, HOLD, or DO NOT INVEST.

  • Confidence Timeline: Delay-adjusted value impact with P50 and P80 confidence bands.

  • Actionable Intelligence: Ranked fatal flags, rework risks, and mitigation actions with expected impact.

  • Traceability: A complete source trail mapping every decision to underlying evidence.

Built by developers. Designed for allocators.

Grounded in multi-jurisdictional infrastructure experience overseeing portfolios exceeding $1B in capital value, MAiZE thinks like a seasoned developer and reports like an independent auditor. We are strictly independent of developers, sponsors, and asset originators.

Built exclusively for:

  • Energy Investment Committees

  • CFO Offices overseeing real asset portfolios

  • Strategic Capital Allocators

  • Infrastructure Private Equity

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Leadership

  • Paula is a recognized leader in renewable energy with two decades of experience developing critical infrastructure across the Americas. She was directly involved in the origination, technical due diligence, and development of over 3 GW of operational clean energy projects.

    Previously, Paula served as SVP Offshore North America for Mainstream Renewable Power, where she built and led a multinational business unit through federal offshore wind lease auctions for New York and California. A pioneer in emerging energy markets, she was instrumental in securing California’s landmark 25 GW offshore wind target and has advised on complex, multi-jurisdictional strategy for next-generation geothermal technologies.

    Paula was a Founding Member and former Board Chair of Offshore Wind California. She has also served on the boards of Oceantic and the American Clean Power, Offshore Wind Council to strengthen domestic supply chains. Having overseen risk and capital allocation on investment committees for huge, capital-intensive energy projects, she founded MAiZE to bring rigorous, evidence-backed clarity to development risk.

    She holds an MBA with a focus on Entrepreneurial Studies from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BSc (Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University, Canada.

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