Name: Aurora Solar Live Demo
Uploaded: 2025-07-22T17:17:28.362Z
Duration: 23 min 16 s
Description: Aurora Solar Live Demo

Transcript for "Aurora Solar Live Demo": Hey, everyone. Today, I'll walk you through a demo of Aurora Solar platform and show how it's gonna help Pure Solar teams adapt in a fast changing market. So, obviously, this year with our shifting policies and the continuing economic pressures, staying agile and efficient is gonna be more critical than ever. Aurora Solar gonna be designed to meet these challenges, mainly by streamlining your design workflows and boosting that accuracy with our powerful three d tools so you all can respond quickly and deliver installable solar projects. We'll begin here on this project overview page where I can track all active work. And from there, I'll create a project. Go ahead and enter in the address of the site and make sure this pin is centered over the home. Next, I'll select the property type and select the team that I want to assign it to. Once I create this project, this is gonna be the project dashboard where I can see a summary of everything, customer information. I can enter energy consumption. I can also jump into the design, and I can also request the design from our internal team of expert designers. Within each project, you can go into design mode for engineering, or you can jump into sales mode, which is gonna be a more, guided experience for the sales team and present live with the homeowner. So I'll jump into design mode first here, And design mode delivers highly accurate residential solar designs in less time that's gonna accelerate those project timelines. It has intuitive CAD environment that's gonna get designers full control, making it the most advanced tool of its kind in the market. So let's start a new design to see how this works. First off, having the best imagery is gonna be key for creating an accurate remote design, and Aurora has all the best options for you to choose from. So under this map toolbar on the bottom left, you'll see that you can click on the button and have the option to toggle between Google Maps, Google Maps HD, Bing, EagleView, and Nearmap. The next step in design mode is creating the site model by drawing the roof and nearby structures that could affect the system production, And you're gonna have three options here as well. So expert design services like we talked about. You're also gonna have Aurora AI, which I'll go ahead and do. And that's going to quickly generate that initial roof model in thirty seconds or less using AI smart roof or AI roof faces, and we'll explore these shortly. So you can see we created that there. Third option is gonna be manual modeling. So designers can draw roof faces from scratch using smart roof or roof faces. And smart roof is gonna let you outline the perimeter, and Aurora is gonna infer the rest. So once you've selected your imagery, we're drawing the outline. You're just gonna draw the outline of the roof, and smart roof is gonna infer the internal roof structure for you, and you can always come back in and make adjustments as needed. You can also add in dormers or folds. You can see there. Once that's good, I can also use AI obstructions to find any obstructions, and I can check the oblique imagery to verify and look at even street view to make sure everything is aligned. Now that I have my three d model, I need to make sure that it's accurate, and this is where lidar comes in. So for those unfamiliar, lidar uses laser pulses from an overhead scanner, usually on a plane, to measure those surface elevations based on return time. This is gonna allow us to capture those highly accurate surface data, and Aurora Solar converts that data into a mesh for easy use. But you can also view the raw point cloud data. This precision is what enables our accurate three d models combining the imagery for structure and the lidar for the height and the pitch. You can adjust this manually, or you can use auto fit to align the buildings automatically. Next, I'm gonna look at a radiance, and this is gonna be a shading analysis using a three d model, our sun path data, and local weather to generate a heat map for the most ideal roof areas for solar. And you might be wondering about tree shading, and Aurora Solar accounts for this in two ways. So once this irradiance loads up here perfect. So with tree shading, you can look at lidar shading, which is typically on by default. That calculates the shading from trees and nearby structures, or you can manually draw trees if you're needing to, manually model if a tree is getting removed, and the irradiance will be rerun to see the impact. So once the three d model is set, you can go ahead and jump into add fire pathways under system, and you can do this manually or automatically. So we do have a database of AHJs, and you can see the code year, if there's fire sprinklers, and if it's optimized for radiance. And this will be automatically applied, which is gonna save your team a ton of time in applying those compliant fire pathways in seconds. And there we go. So there are gonna be a few ways to place panels. You can manually place them by selecting a module, setting the orientation, and clicking and dragging, and Aurora Solar will automatically avoid any obstructions or roof edges. After manual placement, use the auto stringer to stream the system, or you can do it manually by adding an inverter. Aurora Solar really gives you the flexibility to automate automate or customize as needed. The fastest method, though, is gonna be using Auto Designer, and you can choose a target mode. So either max fit or a specific energy offset, select up to, you know, five modules or component types, and Aurora Solar will create the optimal design based on the layout, production, and component efficiency. And once that's run, you'll still be able to adjust these individual modules or arrays. So it's just automatically gonna give you that starting point. So next, I'll run production, which is gonna simulate the performance based on the sun path, shading, and weather, and it's gonna show that expected output, energy offset, monthly production versus consumption, and the system, losses for optimization. Now from this drop down, I can also add storage or update pricing, but I will cover that in sales mode. Now you can also download additional assets such as shade reports, DXF files, or bill of materials. We have integrations with a number of bracket manufacturers so you can create a comprehensive bill of materials. Alright. Let's hop over to sales mode. So now we're in our proposal, and I can simply scroll down here to get to the next section. And remember that the proposal is highly customizable. So everything you see here, layout images, etcetera, can be tailored to your brand and how you want your teams to sell. You can also edit your proposal in this menu. I can change the proposal template if you have multiple options, and I can turn pages on or off from the sales mode presentation, the web, and PDF leave behinds or both, which gives you some flexibility so you can tailor your proposal to each customer. Now all the inputs that you need will start up here in energy consumption. The pre and post solar utility rates are gonna be automatically here based on the location of the project, but I can always come in and change them if needed. So next, I'll enter in their consumption information, and there's a number of different options to choose from depending on what you have available. So I can use a monthly average, monthly estimate, monthly estimate with an existing system. This is for retrofit, annual energy estimate, or the most accurate way is obviously gonna be add interval data if you have that available or to import that from the utility API. But for this example, let's say that all I know is that they paid, $200 in the month of March and that the homeowner, is in this area. So this is gonna extrapolate out their usage for the rest of the year to give you an estimate of their annual consumption. Obviously, the more inputs you have, the more accurate this will be, but this will give you an estimate to work off of. You can always come back and adjust later if they can give you more information. And, again, everything throughout the proposal will update as you update those inputs. You can also add energy optimization. So if you wanna show the impact that adding a heat pump, AC, or other energy efficiency products, would have on the consumption, you can do that there. Now you'll notice that as I fill out the inputs, everything in the proposal will automatically update. So I can show that homeowner what their average monthly bill would be, how much that'll increase over time, and what they'll be paying to the utility over the years if they don't go solar. And once I have the consumption information in there, I can start on the fun part of helping them decrease that. So next, I'm gonna go back into the system design page. And before we can design the PV system, we first need to create a three d model of the site. There's a few different ways you can do this depending on your company's workflow and how much time you have. So the first way is using design mode where you or someone on your team can model out this site themselves. You can use our expert modeling service where a team of expert designers will model the site for you. Or the fastest way is using Aurora Solar AI, which will generate that three d model in less than fifteen seconds using machine learning and computer vision. And now you'll see in the bottom left corner, there's some great educational tools that you can use to build trust with the homeowner that you know what you're talking about. So you can turn on the lidar. You can explain how the surrounding trees and buildings might impact the amount of sunlight that hits the roof. You can turn on the sun path animation, and that's gonna show them how the shading is gonna change throughout different times of the day in the year. And then based on the surrounding trees and buildings and based on the location of your home and local weather, this is running a shading analysis to show you how much sunlight each roof face will get throughout the year. So then I can go ahead once I have run through all this, I can go ahead and start designing the system. So you can put in up to five modules, what orientation and add a filler row if you want, and then it's gonna design the optimal system for them, automatically avoiding the obstruction, setbacks, and fire pathways, just to ensure that you're not designing a system that can't be installed. Now I have my target energy offset in my settings set to a 100%. So this just designed a system that is at least a 100% offset by default on the best roof surfaces. If I click on this drop down here, I'm gonna be able to see the system size, energy offset from solar energy, and the energy efficiency, as well as the annual usage and the annual production. So from here, you can still toggle modules on, toggle some off, and see in real time how that affects the production. Next, I'll click on finalize. So I'm done with this, and I'll go back to sales mode. Now scrolling down, you'll be able to see that my proposal has been updated with the design we just finalized. Next, I'll add battery storage. So I'll select the battery, and the consumption schedule is set to self consumption, which will charge your battery with excess solar during the day and start consuming electricity from your battery when the sun goes down. I can also select, energy arbitrage, which is gonna look to maximize their bill savings, sometimes exporting to the grid rather than consuming the battery power if it makes more financial sense based on their utility rate. I can even enable backup if I want to reserve a certain percentage of battery power or if I wanna use up or keep all of it. Then below, you'll be able to see their average monthly utility bill if they only installed solar versus adding a battery, and even look at how that battery is being used throughout each hour of the day for different months of the year. You can see it's charging, the excess. Once we have that completed, we'll go to pricing. And here, I can adjust my pricing, and it'll really depend on how you have it set up. So whether you're using a price per watt, price based on the components you used, or whether you're calculating price elsewhere and just wanna enter in a flat price here. You can also include any adders, discounts, or incentives that you've built into your database. And then once you have everything configured, you can go through the financing options, which I'll walk through. So here I can select my financing type and select cash. You can set up your own custom financing options. We also have financing integrations with a number of financiers to make this even easier. So for loans, we integrate with GoodLeap, Mosaic, Dividend, and Sungage. And for TPO, we're gonna integrate with GoodLeap, Lightreach, and Infin currently, with that list continuing to grow. These integrations are super easy to set up, and that's gonna allow you to pull rates directly from the financer, and you'll be able to apply for financing and get preapproved directly from within sales mode. Cool thing also is that you can even compare multiple financing options and look at the annual and cumulative cash flows within the proposal. So once the customer is ready to sign, we also can, send out an automated contract generation solution that has an integrated esignature. But if they need more time to think it over, you can always download a PDF version of the proposal and share it with them, or you can send them a link to the interactive web proposal. Either enter in their email address or copy the link and, send it to them via text or email. The web proposal is gonna be just like the proposal in sales mode, with the only difference being the customer won't be able to edit any of the inputs. But it's gonna be as interactive as you saw before. So that's sales mode in a nutshell, and this gives sales reps all the tools they need to quickly create personalized proposals that they can feel confident in, educate the homeowner, and make adjustments in real time, but with those guardrails in place to make sure they're not selling something that can't be installed. So lastly, let's take a minute or two to look at our plan set offerings. So Aurora Solar gonna offer two ways to generate permit ready plan sets with engineering stamps directly from the platform, which can really streamline your post sales process. To request a plan set from our service, click new form under plan set service. So you'll find that here. And once you click on it, you're gonna go ahead and choose the design if you have multiple. You'll create the form, and then you're gonna fill in the site and system details, upload photos, and then submit. Turnaround time is about twenty four hours for PV only and forty eight hours for PV and storage with revisions and stamp requests, managed all within Aurora Solar. Now instant plan sets is gonna deliver permit packages in under sixty seconds. So this is our newer tool. And go ahead and jump into the design here. And this has been accepted by thousands of AHJs across The US already. It's a proven technology. And I can start an instant plan set from the design mode that we were working on or the project dashboard. I've already completed the additional design steps that we needed. So I'm already ready to generate this instant plan set in under a minute. And, basically, Aurora Solar gonna validate your design. It's gonna guide you through those final steps, and it'll let you preview before purchasing. Revisions are free, and stamps can be requested from the dashboard. Alright. Thank you. Alright. It looks like we have one question in the q and a. So greetings from Germany. We already asked this in some ticket. Do you know where the servers are based, which stores sensitive data like legal names, street names, mail addresses, etcetera? Due to our protection regulation, this is an exclusion criterion if servers are only based in The US. Alright. That is a great question. I do not know the location of all of our servers, off top of my head. So I don't wanna tell you wrong. I will follow-up with you all after this once I get an answer from our internal team. What I can say is that we do have a team based in Munich, an international team. We have a pretty large, swath of of German customers as well as, across the EU and kind of internationally. So, sure we've come across this before, and I will, yeah, like I said, I'll follow-up with that. Alright. Do you have a list of AHJs that accept your instant plan sets? Yes. We do. I believe, I don't know if we have a published list. I know we kinda keep an internal record, and we're growing it, kind of expanding it across The US, currently as kind of our rollout process. I'll see if we have a customer facing one and, follow-up with that as well. That's a that's a great question. But, yeah, I do know I think we've, you know, I think we are. I'm not sure how many HJ's, but I know we've we've done about 10,000 projects so far, through the instant plane sets, year to date. Alright. Is there an added cost to the expert design? Let me see. So it's an added cost in the sense that it would be more credits, than the Aurora Solar AI. And I believe you can. Yep. So just looking at our pricing page, which you can find on our website as well, it looks like our expert design services are gonna be a 150 credits, whereas the Aurora Solar AI is normally 90. But I know that with our current, instant access bundle, promotion that we're doing, it's gonna be free through the end of the year. So the AI is gonna be, no cost. Normally, it's 90 credits, and the expert design service will be a 150 credits. Yep. And I think John just put the pricing page on the chat if, you wanna click through there. Alright. Another question. Let's see. Do you have any kind of tool to implement into our website where potential customers can plan their solar themselves, more like just to get them on the right track so we can contact them, continue planning with them together? Yeah. This is a great question. Very topical. Our, international team actually presented on, this exact kind of feature request on Monday. So, yeah. Let me get you in touch actually with our sales team. You can talk with a sales engineer or a product and, get more information on where we are. I I don't think we have anything released currently, but we do have some, tools where you can get creative and you can kind of get a consultation from our team on how best to approach it. And John also did just, put a link in the chat for the instant access bundle as well, and that's where you're gonna get those promotional offers. Alright. Is there someone we can have a phone call with to sign up and go over pricing options? Yeah. So you have a couple of different options. So if you're doing one of our license plans, that's gonna be mainly self serve. Like John put in the chat, you can just click on the pricing page or that instant access bundle to go there and get your account set up. If you have a higher volume or you're you might need to be looking at an enterprise plan, you can also there's gonna be a talk to sales button on our website, and it's gonna be able to get you set up with a salesperson to reach out and, kind of provide next steps from there. Awesome. Yeah. I appreciate you all joining. Any any other questions, from the group? Okay. Alright. Well, that is it. Yeah. To those of you that, put those q and a's, I will follow-up with those, outstanding items. I know our server location and the list of HJ's, and, yeah, we will, take it from there. Everyone else, thank you for your time. Thanks for joining, and please reach out, through our website. Again, you can contact our sales team or anything else through our, chat service. And, yeah, have a great day.