Northwest Power and Conservation Council
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PRODUCTION_VERIFIED schema v3.0.0 Inferred last heartbeat: 2026-07-21T23:28:34.054447+00:00

Business Model Classification Tokens

contract_cycle_length
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
enterprise_sales_motion
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
procurement_complexity
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
vendor_lock_coefficient
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
billing_cadence
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
churn_rate_benchmark
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
annual_recurring_revenue_ratio
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
free_trial_conversion_rate
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
subscriber_ltv_model
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
bundle_discount_depth
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
cross_sell_attach_rate
null
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
bundle_churn_vs_single_churn
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
bundle_margin_blended
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run
upsell_pathway_architecture
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Pending — BM Dev Shop classification run

Business Model Archetype Classification

University of St. Gallen — 55 Business Model Navigator (Gassmann et al.)

SG-036 Product to Capability WHAT High
Direct: revenue_model_type=~100% recurring; funded by stable federal BPA assessments and Congressional appropriations under Northwest Power Act mandates.
SG-049
Subscription
VALUE High

Hybrid Combination

Product to Capability (SG-036) WHAT provides the core structure, combined with Subscription (SG-049) to form the complete business model fingerprint.

55 Archetypes Evaluated High: 2 Medium: 13 Registry: schemas/sg55_archetype_registry.yaml

Knowledge Graph — All Sections

debt_leverage_profile
No debt; federally chartered nonprofit funded by Congressional appropriations and BPA utility assessments; zero leverage.
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Agent_Inference
interest_rate_sensitivity
Interest rate changes have negligible direct impact; no debt service obligations; investment portfolio minimal.
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Agent_Inference
geopolitical_supply_exposure
High intensity; European gas dependency on Russia exposed structural energy security vulnerabilities.
Medium
GICS-commodity-overlay-v1
supply_chain_dependency
Not applicable; NWPCC is a regional energy planning council with no physical supply chain or manufactured goods.
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Agent_Inference
international_expansion_readiness
No international revenue; operates exclusively within the U.S. Pacific Northwest under federal mandate.
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Agent_Inference
geographic_footprint
Operates solely in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington; zero international revenue exposure or currency risk.
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Agent_Inference
commodity_exposure_profile
High intensity; commodities: Natural Gas, Coal, Uranium, Crude Oil, Copper (grid), Lithium (storage); geopolitical: European gas dependency on Russia exposed structural energy security vulnerabilities.
Medium
GICS-commodity-overlay-v1
vendor_lock_dependency_score
No single vendor exceeds 30% of operational costs; primary inputs are staff salaries and IT services, easily substitutable.
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Agent_Inference
business_model_type_primary
Government-chartered nonprofit advisory council; cloud disruption would impair data systems but not revenue generation.
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business_model_type_secondary
Secondary function is public stakeholder engagement; cloud outage would delay publications but not threaten organizational existence.
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Agent_Inference
switching_cost_profile
Minimal API coupling; primary outputs are policy reports and conservation plans, not software-dependent revenue streams.
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howey_test_risk_index
Fails Howey Test entirely; NWPCC generates no investment contracts, securities, or profit-sharing instruments.
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Agent_Inference
regulatory_burden_tier
Very High
Medium
GICS-regulatory-overlay-v1
data_sovereignty_risk
Low GDPR/CCPA exposure; handles primarily public policy data, utility planning records, and stakeholder comments, not personal consumer data.
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Agent_Inference
antitrust_exposure_flag
Negligible antitrust risk; statutory regional planning body with no commercial market participation or pricing authority.
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Agent_Inference
regulatory_exposure_profile
Very High burden; regimes: FERC, NERC, EPA, NRC, State PUCs, DOE; Rate-case lag and clean-energy mandates compress returns on regulated asset base.
Medium
GICS-regulatory-overlay-v1
revenue_model_type
~100% recurring; funded by stable federal BPA assessments and Congressional appropriations under Northwest Power Act mandates.
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Agent_Inference
monetization_vector
Mandatory utility assessments from BPA and four-state compact; no transactional or market-based revenue.
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Agent_Inference
pricing_architecture
Fixed assessment formula under federal statute; no market pricing mechanism; cannot be stress-tested for competitive displacement.
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Agent_Inference
pricing_power_rating
Not applicable; funding set by federal statute and intergovernmental compact, not market dynamics.
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Agent_Inference
target_gross_margin_bracket
Operating as nonprofit; near-zero surplus targeted; administrative overhead ~20-25% of ~$12M annual budget.
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Agent_Inference
churn_vulnerability_index
No free-rider risk; participation mandatory for BPA and four-state utilities under federal law.
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headcount_cost_structure
Headcount-linear for marginal scope increases; ~50-60 FTE staff; doubling mandate scope would require proportional staff growth.
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marginal_cost_of_growth
High marginal cost relative to size; no scalable technology product; additional policy work requires additional expert staff.
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Agent_Inference
franchise_compliance_risk
Not applicable; no franchise network; operates as single-entity regional planning council.
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Agent_Inference
customer_acquisition_metric
Not applicable; statutory beneficiaries (utilities, ratepayers) defined by federal law; no customer acquisition cost.
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Agent_Inference
network_effect_present
Weak positive network effect; broader utility participation improves plan quality but participation is legally mandated, not organic.
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Agent_Inference
asset_efficiency_ratio
AI could modestly reduce research headcount; core policy deliberation and legal compliance functions remain human-intensive.
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Agent_Inference
recession_resistance_tier
Tier 1 recession-resistant; federally mandated funding independent of economic cycles or utility profitability.
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Agent_Inference
customer_segment_primary
Bonneville Power Administration and four-state public utility commissions; legally mandated relationship, zero concentration risk.
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customer_segment_secondary
Regional electric utilities, tribes, environmental groups as stakeholders; no commercial revenue dependency on any segment.
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characteristic_occupations
["11-0000 Management Occupations", "13-0000 Business and Financial Operations Occupations", "15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations", "17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations", "23-0000 Legal Occupations", "41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations", "43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations", "47-0000 Construction and Extraction Occupations", "49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations"]
High
SOC-2018/GICS-overlay
agent_automatable_labor_share
0.34 (HIL — ~34% of characteristic roles agent-automatable)
Medium
SOC-2018 + agentic-exposure-v1
capital_expenditure_profile
Minimal capex; primarily IT refresh and facility leases; no legacy infrastructure reallocation; budget is almost entirely opex.
Inferred
Agent_Inference
sec_cik
null
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Agent_Inference
ticker
null
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Agent_Inference

Business Model Components

Core Space

> *Pending Turn 2 — Business Model Type Agent population.*

Interaction Modes

> *Pending Turn 2 — Business Model Type Agent population.*

Product Matrix

> *Pending Turn 2 — Business Model Type Agent population.*

Historical Evolution Log

Live Operational Signals

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Evaluation Gate — Persona Stress Tests

SKILL_BUFFETT_VAL_03PASS2026-07-21no unmet atoms among this persona's authored questions
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SKILL_OPS_PARTNER_01PASS2026-07-21no unmet atoms among this persona's authored questions

Live Status

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