About Us
Cogent Systems was created in 2011 with the vision of developing a product that would manage market messaging in any industry, with initial focus on the Gas Utility market. Company personnel have over 30 years combined experience in the UK Gas Market.
By 2014 the Cognition software had been developed and the first application (Annual Quantity – AQ) integrated into the platform. This application allowed the customer as a Gas Shipper to manage millions of their AQ values during the 3-month period allotted to changing AQ values, facilitating reduced bills from Gas Transporters.
In 2017 the Nexus project introduced the concept of Rolling AQ where Xoserve produced and communicated monthly AQ values to Shippers. The AQ application was upgraded to manage this new approach also introducing a facility to challenge AQ values which the customer identified as erroneous.
Nexus also introduced the ability to reconcile invoices for domestic as well as industrial sites (as was the case before). Cogent therefore introduced the Invoice Reconciliation (IR) application. IR processes millions of Reconciliation Periods (RP) every month as provided by Xoserve. Each RP is validated against customer readings to verify that they reconcile and if not why. Where imbalances exist between Xoserve’s invoice and customer data, the customer can then take the relevant action(s) to trigger recovery (or adjustment) charges in subsequent Xoserve invoice files. This application is currently saving very significant sums on a monthly basis. Expected recoveries can be recorded and tracked in the application to afford accurate summary reporting on adjustment charges.
A further application was added in 2020 due to the introduction of site class types by the Nexus project. The Class 3 Reads (C3) application was added to handle thousands of daily Smart Meter readings provided by the customer. C3 maintains the correct site class based on these reads and provides details of these reads to Xoserve. By the provision of accurate class 3 site identification and daily reading values C3 keeps the customer aligned with their licence obligations.
Cogent Systems is run by its original 3 directors. As a company, it has been recognised by our customer(s) that Cogent provides a focus and commitment not readily available at larger companies. We are also rightly proud of our software quality and agility and speed of reaction in implementing customer requirements and addressing any defect corrections.