Orivia Tech: Civic Technology for Public Safety, Resilience, and Clean Energy
Civic technology for the lives our infrastructure holds.
Where Data Meets Understanding. Because what protects us deserves to be protected. Our homes. Each other. Our planet.
Orivia is a civic technology company solving complex problems in public safety, resilience, and clean energy through technology, workforce development, and applied research.
What we build
- EcoGuard and BRACE: deployed building energy intelligence platform for BEPS compliance, resilience assessment, and funded retrofit pathways. BRACE is our proprietary Building Retrofit Analysis, Compliance, and Economics Engine.
- SafeEscape: inclusive emergency routing that extends the EcoGuard platform with accessibility-first evacuation planning.
- Save the Grid: our joint initiative with Citizens for Climate Action coordinating resilience deployments across the DMV.
- Responsible AI Lighthouse Fellowship: twelve paid fellows, Maryland Department of Labor funded, launching July 2026.
- Applied research: defining the emerging field of Building Energy Intelligence through pilot buildings, cohort studies, and the Inheritor's Paradox thesis.
- The Inheritance Accord: governance framework for community data rights, equitable benefit distribution, and responsible co-intelligence.
Three domains. One mission.
Public safety: when the grid fails, the heat wave peaks, or the storm arrives, public safety depends on buildings, systems, and decisions that hold under stress. We build the intelligence layer that helps first responders, emergency managers, and community institutions prepare, respond, and recover.
Resilience: we help schools, faith institutions, libraries, and nonprofits become verified resilience hubs with the technology, funding pathways, and governance to back it up.
Clean energy: we deliver the building energy intelligence that makes clean energy retrofits measurable, fundable, and defensible under Maryland, Montgomery County, and DC BEPS laws.
Who we serve
Municipal and state partners, community anchor institutions, building owners and portfolio managers facing BEPS compliance, utilities and program administrators, and foundations and funders working at the intersection of public safety, climate, workforce, and civic intelligence governance.
Proof and partnerships
- Resident company at bwtech@UMBC's Clean Energy Technology Incubator
- Active partnership with Workflow IO combining quadruped robotic scans with BRACE analysis for third-party verified BEPS reports
- Montgomery County DEP library building assessment in progress
- GridHack 2026 powered by real Montgomery County BEPS data
- Live Building Vital Signs dashboard, Phantom Load Calculator, and Living Narratives resilience simulator in production
- Maryland Department of Labor workforce funding secured for the Lighthouse Fellowship
About Orivia
Orivia Institute LLC, doing business as Orivia Tech, is a civic technology company resident at bwtech@UMBC's Clean Energy Technology Incubator. Founded by Michelle Ware-Allen, a certified program manager with fifteen years of federal IT program experience at NIH and HHS.
What we inherit, we protect. What we build, we pass forward.
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