Christopher (CJ) Johnson

PowerDrive Thermal

CEO & Co-founder · 2025 to present

Low-grade waste heat is one of the largest untapped energy resources in the industrial economy. Converting it to cooling recovers far more of it than converting it to electricity, and cooling is exactly what power-constrained data centers already spend megawatts to do. PowerDrive builds the system that makes that trade, starting with AI data centers running on-site generation.

• $8M+ in federal R&D behind the underlying technology (DOE, ARPA-E, DOD)
• Selected for the Chevron Studio two-year scale-up program
• Prototype validated in partnership with Colorado State University

Avanza Energy

Founder & Publisher

Strategic intelligence on data center power infrastructure and the broader energy transition, written for the operators, developers, and investors making infrastructure decisions. Avanza covers onsite generation economics, grid interconnection, regional market dynamics, and power procurement.

Avanza runs on an AI-native publishing system I built. Seventeen specialized agents handle research, drafting, fact-checking, style editing, data visualization, and multi-channel distribution, each with its own context and handoff. Four human review gates sit on top of it, because judgment is the part that should not be automated. Every article ships with 15 to 25 cited sources, 85% of them Tier 1, its own data visualizations, and a two-week distribution campaign. The publication is the demonstration; the system is the product.

Agilito

Founder & CEO · 2023 to present

An AI-native venture studio. Agilito builds the operating systems companies run on, then proves them by running them. PowerDrive Thermal spun out of the studio when external funding landed. Avanza Energy is the publishing system in production. Agilito.ai is the interface layer for business operations, currently in private waitlist.