VP Regulatory Affairs
Settlement negotiations
What You Do Today
Negotiate settlements with commission staff, consumer advocates, industrial intervenors, and environmental groups. Find landing zones that satisfy the utility's financial needs while addressing stakeholder concerns.
AI That Applies
AI models financial impacts of settlement alternatives in real time during negotiations — if we concede X, what does that mean for ROE, customer rates, and earnings?
Technologies
How It Works
For settlement negotiations, the system draws on the relevant operational data and applies the appropriate analytical models. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.
What Changes
Real-time financial impact modeling during negotiations replaces "we'll have to get back to you" delays.
What Stays
Negotiation strategy, relationship management with regulators and intervenors, and the political judgment that determines settlement success.
What To Do Next
This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.
Establish Your Baseline
Know where you are before you move
Before adopting AI tools for settlement negotiations, understand your current state.
Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.
Define Your Measures
What to track and how to calculate it
Time per cycle
How to calculate
Measure how long settlement negotiations takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.
Why it matters
The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.
Quality of output
How to calculate
Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.
Why it matters
Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.
Start These Conversations
Who to talk to and what to ask
your board chair or lead independent director
“What data do we already have that could improve how we handle settlement negotiations?”
They shape expectations for how AI appears in governance
your CTO or CIO
“Who on our team has the deepest experience with settlement negotiations, and what tools are they already using?”
They own the technology infrastructure that enables AI adoption
a peer executive at a company further along on AI adoption
“If we brought in AI tools for settlement negotiations, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?”
Their lessons learned are worth more than any consultant's framework
Check Your Prerequisites
Confirm readiness before you invest
Check items as you confirm them.