Ecosystem
SDX is not your competitor. It's your enabler.
If you build sustainability software, provide advisory services, or manage data on behalf of real estate owners — this page explains how SDX relates to your work. The short version: SDX handles measurement infrastructure so you can focus on the value you add.
What Is SDX?
The neutral measurement platform for comparable sustainability data.
VALUE LAYER
Analytics, CRREM, Assurance, Advisory
SDX SHARED LAYER
Definitions, Normalization, Benchmarking
DATA SOURCES
ENERGY STAR (EPA), Green Button Utilities, Meters, Owners
SDX standardizes the preconditions for trustworthy data. Competition shifts up the stack.
For Software Providers
What changes for you
Stop rebuilding normalization logic
Every sustainability platform writes its own code for weather normalization, unit conversion, and property type classification. SDX handles this at the shared layer — so you don't have to maintain it per client.
Consistent, comparable inputs
When your customers' data is standardized before it reaches your platform, your analytics, advisory, and compliance outputs improve. The quality of your work depends on the quality of the inputs.
Free to read, free to write
There are no API fees, no per-call charges, and no licensing costs for contributing or consuming data on behalf of owners. The platform is free for all ecosystem participants.
More buildings on the platform means more potential customers for you
As SDX adoption grows, more buildings produce standardized data that your products can work with. The platform expanding is your addressable market expanding.
Your tools don't get replaced
Competition shifts up the stack
Without SDX
Rebuild normalization logic per client
Reconcile inconsistent data formats
Maintain proprietary benchmark datasets
Compete on data collection (low value)
With SDX
Consume standardized, audit-ready data via API
Focus on analytics, advisory, and insights
Access the deepest global benchmark dataset
Compete on value creation (high value)
Open API Access
Free integration for everyone
Published endpoints, equal terms, zero cost. Read and write data on behalf of owners at no charge.
RESTful APIs
Well-documented endpoints for benchmark data, property metadata, and aggregated analytics. OpenAPI specification included.
Free to Integrate
Read and write data on behalf of your owner clients at zero cost. No licensing fees, no per-call charges, no lock-in.
Integration Parity
Published APIs with equal terms for all partners. No preferential access, no secret endpoints. Open is a charter-level commitment.
Infrastructure Layer
Connected directly to data sources
SDX integrates with the utilities and standards bodies that sit beneath the entire sustainability ecosystem — not competing with the platforms that build on top.
ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager
Live integration with EPA's official Web Services API. Score sync, meter import, and consumption data — pulled directly from the source.
Green Button Connect My Data
OAuth 2.0 utility connections (PG&E, Con Edison, National Grid, ComEd, SCE, Ameren). Raw meter data flows through SDX and is available to any ecosystem partner.
Neutral shared platform, not a competing SaaS. SDX pulls the raw utility and EPA data that sits beneath every sustainability platform. Like DTCC for securities or SWIFT for payments — the infrastructure layer that makes everything above it work.
Existing Integrations
Already connected to the ecosystem
SDX integrates with leading property management systems, sustainability platforms, and utility providers.
Property Management
Yardi Voyager
RealPage
Entrata
MRI Software
AppFolio
Buildium
Sustainability Platforms
Measurabl
Deepki
Scaler
Cambio
Arc by USGBC
Utilities (25+)
Green Button
EDF
Enel
ENGIE
TEPCO
Duke Energy
Southern California Edison
PG&E
+ 17 more
Questions about integration?
If you're evaluating how SDX fits into your product or service offering, we'd like to hear from you. There's no sales process — just a conversation about whether this is useful.