Tapestry says HyperQ screened PJM's Cycle 1 site-control documents in under a day

Tapestry, the grid software company that began at Alphabet's X, said on 10 November 2026 that its HyperQ AI tool has finished screening the site-control documents of all 811 generation applications in Cycle 1 of PJM Interconnection's reformed interconnection process, about 220 GW of proposed capacity.

Site control is proof that a developer is legally entitled to build on a particular plot. Under PJM's new first-ready, first-served rules, a project must show it is viable before it is studied, with up-front financial commitments and site control among the tests, PJM says. The Cycle 1 application window closed on 27 April.

Tapestry says HyperQ ran alongside a manual review of the same 811 applications and produced a readiness report for each, with page-level citations, at a median of 6 minutes 15 seconds per application. It compares under 24 hours with about two months for the same intake and first review done by hand, a 60-fold speed-up. The point of the comparison, Tapestry says, is that this paperwork step can stop being a bottleneck: applications without land rights are caught before engineering studies begin, and PJM's reviewers spend less time hunting through documents. PJM, in a statement Tapestry quotes, said the early results look promising as a basis for the speed it needs to meet its goal of a 12-month interconnection timeline, with its own experts kept fully in control.

Tapestry says HyperQ grouped 4,581 documents into 2,328 agreement bundles and checked each against four site-control tests in PJM's tariff, covering contract term, chain of title, exclusive use and minimum acreage: 9,312 assessments in all. PJM's experts make every final compliance decision, and about 202 GW moved on to Phase 1 of the studies, Tapestry says. Its figures cover only the site-control stage, not engineering studies or final approval times.

PJM said on 3 August that 715 projects totalling more than 200 GW had qualified for study in a cycle designed to take one to two years, and that it would assess the tool's effect across Cycle 1. Tapestry says it next plans to apply HyperQ to single-line diagrams and other engineering files, and to let developers check their applications before they submit them.