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Tether
Building performance company

Your building is already showing what to fix first.

Tether turns bills, meter data, BMS history, and site context into a ranked plan for the money, risk, rating headroom, and proof your team can act on.

Verified saving
$148k /yr
Rating pathway
2.0 → 4.5 target
Every site metered
Big 4 bank
Proof in motion

Numbers from real Tether work.

Each figure ties back to a real asset, a baseline, a method, and an evidence record. Projected and verified results are labelled where they appear in full stories.

  1. $148k /yr

    Verified saving

    Auckland CBD A-grade office, 12-month IPMVP Option C result.

  2. 2.0 → 4.5 target

    Rating pathway

    Mackersy Property, Tristram Precinct, projected pathway with no major capex.

  3. Big 4 bank

    National rollout

    Utility, occupancy, and IEQ metering across every office and branch.

  4. 21% energy

    Common-area reduction

    Regional shopping centre, common-area energy measure.

  5. 25-30k kWh/mo

    Industrial reduction

    Meadow Mushrooms, motor upgrades over full fan replacement.

Organisations Tether works with and through

The customer problem

Building improvement is still too hard to get done.

Bills, BMS alarms, audits, finance, suppliers, and rating evidence all live in different places. That is why obvious improvements still stall.

Tether turns scattered evidence into one path: fix, fund, deliver, and prove.

Mixed-use building representing competing asset improvement priorities
A ranked plan for the next move What should be fixed first?

Tether ranks each move by saving, cost to deliver, readiness, funding value, and proof path.

Free building check

See what your building is leaving on the table.

Upload a bill, choose the outcome you care about, and get a banded first view of cost, rating, reporting, compliance, and improvement headroom.

Bands, not false precision. Your bill stays private in encrypted storage and is auto-purged twelve months after upload.

The paid Performance Review goes deeper and produces a board-ready Performance Plan.

Step 1 of 5 · Your goals20%
Building your check
Reading your bills0s · usually under a minute
Did you know

After-hours base load is usually the first saving we find - plant and lighting left running outside occupied hours add up.

Five steps, about a minute. Your bill stays private in encrypted storage and is auto-purged after twelve months. Read the privacy detail →

From advice to delivery

One path from advice to completed outcomes.

Advice only matters when the work is scoped, delivered, and proven. Tether keeps every handoff tied to one baseline.

No dead-end advice. No claims without proof.

Tether advisor and building owner reviewing a printed building performance plan together in a commercial office
Scope / capital / work / proof Every handoff tied to the baseline.
  1. 01 Current state Find it.

    Source the building truth: bills, meters, BMS, records.

    Baseline
  2. 02 Priority Diagnose it.

    Rank the next move by value, risk, disruption, and evidence.

    Scope
  3. 03 Delivery route Connect it.

    Tie the asset to the right partner, assessor, supplier, or owner.

    Route
  4. 04 Commercial path Unblock it.

    Shape funding, incentives, partner input, or lender evidence before sign-off.

    Capital
  5. 05 Site work Deliver it.

    Coordinate owners, suppliers, access, sequencing, and evidence requirements.

    Action
  6. 06 Measurement Prove it.

    Measure the result and make the claim status clear.

    Proof
The shape of a saving

What a verified saving actually looks like.

This is an anonymised 24-hour load curve from a commercial office project. The dashed line shows the expected baseline. The solid line shows measured consumption after the improvement work was delivered.

A saving is only verified when you can show the baseline, the measured result, and the method used to compare them. That is the evidence your board, lender, assessor, auditor, or internal team can trust.

24-hour load curve. Expected baseline on top, measured consumption after improvement below. Hover or touch the chart to scrub through the day. 300 kW 200 kW 100 kW 0 kW 00:00 04:00 08:00 12:00 16:00 20:00 24:00 Expected baseline Measured after improvement 10:00 Baseline 285 kW Measured 215 kW Saved 70 kW · 24.6%
Period
12 months post-improvement
Method
IPMVP Option C
Reduction at peak
25%
Verified annual saving
$148k / yr
Anonymised Auckland CBD office project. Details redacted for customer confidentiality. Read the full story →
Five outcomes

Five ways to read one building.

Start with the outcome the customer needs. Organise the evidence once. Shape the next decision.

Cost. Value. Rating. Proof. Risk.

Technician checking metering equipment in a commercial plant room.
01 Cost $148k/yr verified
Bills Meters BMS Records
Save Money

Save money.

Find waste, reduce operating cost, and prove the saving.

Pressure

Operating cost leaks through schedules, controls, maintenance, water, or metering gaps.

Path

Separate normal load from avoidable waste, rank fixes, and measure the saving after delivery.

  • Bills
  • Meter data
  • Baselines
Open Save Money outcome
  1. 01 Cost Save money. Find waste, reduce operating cost, and prove the saving.
  2. 02 Value Make money. Protect value, strengthen leasing, and support finance conversations.
  3. 03 Rating Certify. Prepare the data, evidence, and operating rhythm for recognised ratings.
  4. 04 Proof Report. Turn building performance into board, lender, investor, and internal evidence.
  5. 05 Risk Comply. Track obligations, close actions, and prove progress over time.
The Performance Review

A full health check and Performance Plan for your building.

You know your building should be doing more. Saving money, making money, certifying, funding the next move, hitting a reporting deadline. You don't know what's possible, what to do first, who to use, or how to pay for it.

The Performance Review answers all of that in one detailed report. We agree the outcomes you need. We assess what the building can deliver. We return a plan with every option scoped, costed, ranked, and matched to funding.

One report that answers all of it, and the path to get there.
Tether advisor and customer reviewing building goals, bills, plans, and performance data inside a commercial plant room.
Align

Agree what success looks like.

We meet to understand the outcomes you need from your building. Save money, make money, certify, fund, report, comply. Whatever the building has to deliver, the plan is built around it from step one.

  • Outcomes
  • Constraints
  • Success metrics
What the market is signalling

Performance now has to prove itself.

Capital, compliance, reporting, and operating cost have stopped being separate conversations. They land in the same building decision, and the answer the buyer accepts is the one with evidence behind it.

The evidence decides the next move.

Asset manager, finance lead, and Tether advisor reviewing building performance evidence before a commercial decision.
Evidence that can leave the room

One baseline for the board, bank, assessor, supplier, and delivery team.

  1. 01 CAPITAL

    The money needs a reason.

    Owners and lenders won't fund work without a credible baseline, a costed pathway, and proof the savings will hold. Hope is not a business case.

    FUNDING CASE
  2. 02 COMPLIANCE

    The clock is real.

    Reporting deadlines and obligations are landing on the same building. Your team needs owners, dates, actions, and a record that survives an audit.

    ACTION RECORD
  3. 03 PROOF

    Claims need a method.

    Boards, auditors, assessors, and tenants are no longer accepting modelled numbers. Every performance claim needs a baseline behind it.

    BASELINE METHOD
  4. 04 COST

    Energy waste hides in plain sight.

    Maintenance drift, controls drift, and unmetered systems quietly inflate operating cost. You can't manage what you can't isolate.

    RANKED SAVING
CAPITAL SIGNAL

We needed a NABERSNZ rating to qualify for green finance and to anchor a tender process. Without a credible baseline, we couldn't get either.

PROPERTY OWNER, NZ REGIONAL COMMERCIAL PRECINCT

Asset director in a commercial building lobby, holding a printed performance plan.
Voice of the asset manager

“We knew we had inefficiencies, but Tether gave us the proof and visibility to act.”

Head of Property

Major NZ bank, national branch network. Monitoring data confirmed a major HVAC fault, the landlord upgraded the system, and one month of energy savings covered the full monitoring suite.

Quote anonymised at customer's request. Identifiable references available on request under NDA.

Decide what to fix first

Get a ranked plan for the building decision you need to make.

Start with the asset, the data you already have, and the outcome that matters this quarter. Tether shows what is worth fixing, what evidence is missing, and what pathway can be defended.