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I had the service for 2 years. Most months I saved $50-100.

Until this month wiped out my savings the entire time (I was able to jump ship soon enough to "only" rack up $1300 of electric bills with them lol)

If I was saving $50-100, I would have put the extra towards a decent generator.

So the "tiered brokerage" middle men make it more expensive on average by cheaper when wholesale spikes?

I saved around $1700/year on Griddy due to some very simple smart home automation. My goal this year was to push it much further than that, alas.

Do you have any documentation or recommended reads for how and what you did? I've been thinking of doing something similar but wondering what parts make most sense to automate

Most likely heating and cooling is what take up the cast majority of your bill, unless you have something more unusual going on.

Electric cars can match or exceed AC as another big source.