VOLTA AI Lab Projects

Active initiatives with Southwest Properties and Bishop's Cellar. Progress updates, deliverables, and project documentation.

Active Initiatives

Bishop's Cellar

Sales Data Analysis for Marketing
Active Solution Design

Customer intelligence from WooCommerce transaction data. RFM segmentation, taste profiles, campaign opportunities, and time-period analysis across 18,609 customers and $22.3M in revenue.

18,609 Customers
$22.3M Revenue
138K Orders
Next Step
Matt Rogers is preparing a project update and asked to restore the missing campaign suggestions in the customer dashboard. Verify the report, then resend both the report and Southwest project-page access.
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Simon 2.0

Internal Knowledge Search
Active Solution Design

Enabling semantic search on SharePoint using existing Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. Piloting with Jim Mullan's Construction & Development folders before expanding to other departments.

3 Pilot Folders
16 Copilot Licenses
~6 wk Pilot Duration
Next Step
Confirm Jim's pilot results before extending SharePoint search access more broadly across Construction. The Volta working folder and permissions were refreshed in June.

Utility Tracking

Utility Tracking & Anomaly Portal
Active Qualifying

Automated reading of utility bills — power, gas, water, propane — into a verified database, feeding an anomaly dashboard that catches leaks, bad meters, and billing errors as they happen instead of six months later. Every stored value is traceable to the exact bill page it came from.

553 Bills in Database
30 Properties Delivered
95%+ Read Accuracy
Next Step
Connect the verified bill records to the pared-back pilot, then test real property outputs. The next review package includes a 5264 Morris Excel export, property browsing, tabular source data, bill evidence, quarterly reporting, and per-unit or per-square-foot views.
BY
Ben Young
CEO, Southwest
MR
Matt Rogers
President, Bishop's Cellar
JM
Jim Mullan
VP Construction & Dev
DB
Derrick Bertrand
IT Services
JF
Jacqueline Ferguson
VP People & Culture
IO
Ikenna Odo
IT, SharePoint
JP
Jennifer Poirier
SVP Real Estate
LM
Leslie McIntyre
VP & Group Controller
MC
Matt Cooper
CEO, Volta
Aug 25
Bishop's Cellar report work resumed Bishop's Cellar
Matt Rogers returned to the customer dashboard while preparing a project update. He asked for the campaign suggestions to be restored and for renewed access to the Southwest project page and its project summaries.
Aug 4
Utility pilot scope confirmed Utility Tracking
Jennifer Poirier and Leslie McIntyre confirmed the pared-back pilot direction: configurable variance thresholds, a complete property list, year-over-year comparisons, property-level Excel exports, source data and bill evidence, quarterly reporting, and per-unit or per-square-foot views.
Jul 29
Pilot data verified in the database Utility Tracking
553 bills across 8 properties now stored with page-level traceability — every value tied to the exact bill page it was read from, double-checked by two independent AI readers, with anything uncertain flagged for human review. Two vendor billing corrections were found and repaired from the bills themselves.
Jul 27
Pipeline caught a real billing anomaly Utility Tracking
The extraction pipeline surfaced that NS Power had been billing several Southwest meters at the wrong meter multiplier for months, then issued retroactive correction bills — exactly the class of billing error the anomaly portal is designed to catch early.
Jul 23
Full portfolio bills delivered Utility Tracking
Leslie's team delivered two years of utility bills across 30 properties via SharePoint. Coverage independently verified page by page (~4,800 pages) — the delivery is materially complete, with only a handful of narrow gaps confirmed back to the team.
Jun 3
Requirements locked and reading model selected Utility Tracking
Jennifer and Leslie prioritized the dashboard feature list (13 must-haves) and reviewed the wireframe — "exceeds my expectations." An 8-model bake-off selected the bill-reading approach: two independent AI readers cross-checking each other at a fraction of a cent per bill.
Mar 20
Matt Rogers sync: campaign action planning Bishop's Cellar
Mapped out campaign action plans from the customer intelligence report. Working session to be booked with Matt Rogers, Ryan, and Catherine.
Mar 10
All Matt Rogers feedback addressed and deployed Bishop's Cellar
Addressed all 11 items from Matt's review: added cross-sell insights section (co-purchase patterns with lift analysis), LTV definitions, RFM segment explanations, expanded price tiers, methodology notes on reorder patterns and drift-away thresholds, fixed channel scoping bug, corrected and clarified "Better Bottles" LTV labeling. Deployed to production.
Mar 17
SharePoint walkthrough with Ikenna Odo Simon 2.0
Discussed SharePoint setup for the Copilot pilot. Shared project portal and setup guide with Ikenna, Jim, and Derrick. Requested SharePoint account access and Copilot license for Matt during the pilot period.
Mar 6
Revenue opportunity sliders shipped Bishop's Cellar
Interactive conversion rate sliders on 8 campaign cards with real-time revenue estimates. Qualitative notes on 2 non-revenue campaigns. Responds to period switching.
Mar 6
Report UX improvements deployed Bishop's Cellar
Sticky date filter bar, nav dot labels, and dynamic period filtering for all campaign text and footer. All verified in browser and deployed.
Mar 6
Matt Rogers call: report review and roadmap Bishop's Cellar
42-min review call. Agreed on two-dashboard concept (internal ops + customer-facing). 3-6 month roadmap confirmed. Matt showed report to ops/supply chain team. Catherine to validate data accuracy.
Mar 5
Taxonomy import and report update Bishop's Cellar
Imported 2,834 taxonomy terms (48 countries, 266 regions, 252 varietals). Added Taste Profile Intelligence section and time-period toggle. Deployed to Netlify.
Mar 4
WooCommerce data received from Kula Partners Bishop's Cellar
Trevor Barbrick delivered 15 core tables + 4 taxonomy tables. Full analysis completed: RFM segmentation, channel analysis, frequency tiers, timing intelligence.
Feb 25
Jim Mullan meeting: pilot scope confirmed Simon 2.0
3 SharePoint folders confirmed (Development, Properties/RE, Construction). Approach: enable M365 Copilot search. Jim will test 30 min, 2-3x/week. POC scope document drafted.
Jan 29
Matt Rogers discovery call Bishop's Cellar
40-minute discovery call. Mapped tech stack (NCR > WooCommerce > HubSpot), identified 6 key pain points, agreed on MVP approach with Matt as human-in-the-loop.
Dec 11
In-person kickoff with Southwest management team
57-minute meeting with full management team. Reviewed wish lists from all departments. Two initiatives selected: Simon 2.0 (Jim Mullan) and Sales Data Analysis (Matt Rogers).