Thread Partner Program

Better Together

Building and maintaining healthy partnerships is at the heart of Thread’s business and our explosive growth.

Enrich Your Asset Data Warehouse

Thread’s mission is to build resilient electric utility infrastructure from generation to consumption – but we can’t do it alone. To achieve our goal, we’re building a global partnership network to deliver powerful integrated solutions to our customers.
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Integrate Insights

Leverage digital asset data collected by inspection crews accurately annotated and anchored to real location data. Understand asset health and defect severity from the individual asset level to the global health aggregation.

Deliver immediate value to clients by integrating with UNITI Connect to pull asset information, enrich analytics, and report on key insights.

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Scale Data Management

UNITI Workspace specializes in automatic imagery-to-asset association removing the burden of managing files, folders, and SD cards. Inspect more assets faster by letting UNITI take responsibility of your inspection data. All deployments of UNITI Workspace include unlimited cloud storage.

Whether contracting inspection services, running them in-house, or some combination UNITI Workspace provides a place for enterprise data ownership and governance.

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Enhance Product Suite

Collaborating with Thread elevates your competitive edge, enabling you to provide enhanced products to your customers. From automated drone flight to mobile device data collection, allow us to serve as your technological edge, augmenting customer value and boosting your organization’s revenue.

Raise the bar for industry standard tools and join us in building resilient infrastructure.

Let’s work together

Whether you are a reseller, managed service provider, or technology partner, we have a program for you. Thread partners can expand their brand and product footprint while better serving customers and helping to strengthen the energy sector as a whole. We welcome the opportunity to share our value proposition with you and help you learn how to profit as a Thread Partner.

Becoming a Technology partner

Help team members and stakeholders with different levels of technical knowledge understand the condition of your network and have conversations that lead to decisions. 

Partnership with Xcel Energy

“When we [Xcel Energy] kicked off automated wind inspections [in-house], that changed the dynamic of how we work on a day to day basis and how we manage our data and assets. Now that is flowing into changing asset management strategies across the entire company.”

Thomas Stegge, Sr UAS Program Manager,
Xcel Energy

Becoming a Managed Service Provider

As a service provider, you know your customer best. Pair that knowledge with the best inspection and asset management platform in the electric utility industry. Thread supports MSPs with direct software development influence opportunities and early product releases.

As a partner, you leverage Thread’s expertise to enhance customer capabilities and address challenges more effectively. Dedicated support and resources, such as training programs and technical assistance with product managers and engineering teams, ensure maximum value with minimized implementation risks.

Partnership with Calaway

“The seamless integration of Thread’s innovative solutions into our operations has not only streamlined our asset management processes but also unlocked new avenues for growth and expansion.”

Garett Calaway
CEO, Calaway Solutions

Becoming a Hardware Partner

Many of Thread’s customers are using drones, mobile devices, and field technology platforms to capture asset condition. Thread is always looking for hardware innovation and integration to build comprehensive data capture methods for customers.  

Together, let’s create a perfectly matched combination of hardware and software for an all-in-one scalable solution for customers. 

Partnership with Vertex

“[Thread’s] intuitive interface and seamless integration significantly improves asset management workflows, saving our clients time and enhancing the depth of their asset inspection insights.”

Ryan Ach
Vice President, Vertex Unmanned Solutions

Becoming a Reseller

Do you already have a network of clients you think could benefit from UNITI Workspace?

Thread’s core values include only offering UNITI Workspace solutions that generate better asset inspection, workflow improvements, or financial efficiencies through improved operations. Thread will never offer solutions, upgrades, or products without a clear path to value for the customer. Work with us to provide better value to your clients.

 

Partnership with Mistras

“With Thread’s support, MISTRAS can achieve its goals in part to validate inspection findings and alarms for the blade maintenance program, helping customers transition from reactive blade repairs to proactive blade maintenance.”

Dr. Valery Godinez-Azcuaga 
Director, SensoriaTM Center of Excellence, MISTRAS

Frequently Asked Questions

Organizations interested in partnering with Thread begin by completing the online application form or by sending an email to info@thread.one expressing interest in joining the program. A Thread Partner Manager will set up a discovery call to determine fit and mutual benefits.

If a partnership is founded, onboarding begins by assigning a Partner Manager responsible for providing all resources including certifications (where applicable) and one-on-one product training. This includes exposure to Thread policies, partnership expectations, and UNITI Workspace demos, resources, and account registration.

Your Partnership Manager is your go-to contact and will facilitate marketing material, deal registration, referrals, and provide ongoing support.

Sales functions and territories are determined by Thread’s Partner Manager Team to mitigate conflict. Disagreements are handled on a case-by-case basis by your Partner Manager. Thread’s Partnership Program supports partners globally and accommodates various company sizes through territory and market division, providing plenty of opportunity for everyone.
Partners receive online and print marketing collateral tailored to help promote Thread products and services effectively. Collaborative events including tradeshows, networking opportunities, and conferences are regularly scheduled with our partners throughout the year. In addition, Thread is available for webinars, whitepapers, blogs, co-authored marketing materials, and more, upon request. Speak to your Partner Manager for details.

Mutual success through our partner program helps to support customer value, a pillar of Thread’s sales philosophy. We believe in an open line of communication between partners and Thread Partner Managers. 

We collect detailed analytics and performance metrics to evaluate the status of our relationship and accomplishments. With regular check-ins we ensure expectations are aligned and needs are being met. 

Partners are also required to stay up to date on training, updates and product releases, bug fixes, and changes to product manuals. Ongoing and on-demand training is provided by Partner Managers and supporting technical staff. Partners are also required to adhere to Sales and Marketing standards. 

Join the Thread Partner Program Today!

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Ready to Jumpstart Your Productivity?

Break the cycle of missing information and incomplete data. Build better data and spend your time making decisions and building resiliency.

Teams

Avoid digitizing written notes & annotated line drawings. Instead, collect data digitally.

Combine design drawings, infrastructure plans, & inspection data in one place.

Turn reactive repair into proactively managed assets, reduce downtime, & optimize maintenance schedules.

Use Cases

Quickly pull asset data together into workorder & inspection reports before sending teams out.

Eliminate redundant truck rolls & unproductive field operations.

Enable rigorous & repeatable robotic & sensor data acquisition without the need for external contractors.

Integrations

Remove integration & automation gaps, enabling teams to better focus on their work & get more done, faster.

Enrich engagement across various teams including engineering, workorder management, & field operations

Store all data in one place including automatically ingested imagery, manual uploads, digitized field notes, & more.

All data, no matter the format or the richness, is associated with an asset in UNITI.

Package outcomes into reports & work orders in UNITI or integrate with your work order manager.