Every automation solution on the market was designed before AI was part of the conversation. Clara™ is what it looks like when AI isn’t an afterthought. Built natively into renovo, Clara is a cybersecure agentic assistant that lets operations and administration staff get answers, insight, and guidance through typed or spoken conversation instead of hunting across displays and menus or running SQL scripts and commands. 

Because Clara connects with the SCADA system through a standard interface, it can be provided independently and pointed at an existing non-renovo OT system to bring conversational AI guidance to operations and maintenance teams without impacting your OT system in place.  For renovo customers it’s already there; for utilities not ready to move off their current SCADA, it’s a way to add modern AI functionality to what they have. 

It works because it understands the domain. Clara pairs large language models and agentic reasoning with fine-tuned process-control knowledge, so it reads OT system data the way an operator would, not the way a generic chatbot would. Through its interface into the SCADA system, Clara has visibility into the live data, providing the context needed to answer your questions.

Clara’s role is to inform and advise, not to operate. It surfaces what’s happening, explains why, and recommends what to consider. The operator stays in control of every action on the system. 

What does that means at the console: 

• Ask the system anything: “What are my top critical alarms?” “How many malfunctioning solar panels in South Hampton?” “How much margin do I have in generation?” “What’s the peak load forecast today?” Clara answers all questions directly based on live system data. 

• Reason about what’s coming: “What are my top ten overload risks in the next hour?” “What’s my highest overload risk if temperatures go above 95?” “Which zones are at wildfire risk today?” Clara works from current and forecasted conditions, not just the present reading. 

• Find what you need: “Find the isolating procedure for line segment APL-ODT.” “How do I raise voltage on feeder B15, station Happy Feet?” “Estimate the number of customers on feeder B2, station Black Bear.” Clara provides procedures, guidance, and estimates without leaving the conversation. 

• Understand the why: “What’s the cause of alarms in station Northside?” Clara summarizes and explains how it reached a conclusion, rather than handing back a number with no provenance, so an operator can act on it with confidence. 
• Build me a Calc: “can you do a new calc, summing all the MW flows on all incoming lines?”
• Build me a Trend:” Can you build a trend with 3 pens as follows: XXXX, YYYY, ZZZ points?”
• Etc.

And it’s built for OT, not borrowed from the consumer internet. Clara installs on-premise with no data leaving your secure network; nothing routed to public or internet-only models. It was purpose-built by OT system experts to address the specific needs of operators and maintenance staff that legacy SCADA simply can’t meet. For a utility, that distinction (domain-trained, on-premises, no data egress) is the difference between an AI you can put in a control room and one you can’t.