AI systems for solar

In short

Solar retailers and installers leak margin in predictable places: leads that go cold because the callback is slow in a long, competitive sales cycle, quotes and designs that take days while a faster rival wins, STC creation and CER compliance done by hand, and post-install monitoring and battery upsell that never happens. Bamco builds the AI systems that plug those leaks, compliance automation, dashboards, lead engines and integrations, around the tools you already run like OpenSolar, NearMap, Fronius Solar.web and Xero.

Information current as at 4 July 2026

Solar is a high-consideration, high-competition sale where the money is won and lost in the gaps: between an enquiry and the first call back, between a design request and the quote that lands, between an install signed off and the paperwork that claims the certificates, between a system commissioned and the battery you never followed up to sell. Most retailers do not have a technology problem in the abstract. They have specific, nameable leaks, and every one of them is a system waiting to be built. Here is where a solar business bleeds margin, and what plugs each leak.

Leads that go cold before the first call back, quotes that take days, and STC paperwork nobody wants to touch.

Where the money leaks

The specific leaks in a solar business.

Leads going cold before the first call back

A homeowner comparing quotes fills in three forms on three sites in an evening. The business that calls back within minutes gets the conversation; the one that calls back the next afternoon is talking to someone who has already half-decided. In a long, high-consideration solar sale, speed of first contact is often the whole game, and a lead that sits in an inbox for a day is frequently a lead already lost to a faster competitor.

Quotes and system designs too slow to produce

Every enquiry needs a roof assessed, a system sized, panels and inverter selected and a proposal built. Done by hand around a NearMap image and an OpenSolar design, that takes time, and while your consultant is building quote number four, the customer has three others in hand. The fast, accurate quoter wins the deal, and every hour between enquiry and proposal is an hour the customer spends warming to someone else.

STC paperwork nobody wants to touch

Every accredited install creates small-scale technology certificates, and claiming them means assembling install data, serial numbers, signatures and compliance evidence to the Clean Energy Regulator's rules. Done manually it is slow, error-prone admin, and a rejected or delayed STC submission is real revenue held up or lost. It is the job on every installer's desk that everybody does grudgingly and nobody does quickly.

Monitoring, warranty and battery upsell that never happens

Once a system is commissioned in Fronius Solar.web or Enphase Enlighten, the relationship usually goes quiet. Nobody watches for the underperforming array, nobody calls when a warranty window is closing, and nobody rings the customer whose bill and habits make them the obvious candidate for a battery. The best upsell you have, back to a happy existing customer, goes uncontacted while you chase cold leads instead.

Lead-source attribution lost across a long cycle

A solar deal can take weeks from first click to signed contract, across a web form, a phone call, a site visit and a follow-up. By the time it closes, nobody can say whether it came from the Google campaign, the referral, or the letterbox drop. Marketing spend is flown blind: you keep paying for channels you cannot prove work and starve the ones that quietly do.

Two ways in

Ready to talk to the team who would build it?

Bring us the idea you already have, or book an audit and we map where the money is leaking. Either way, you deal directly with the senior team that designs and builds it.

The systems that plug them

Each leak, mapped to a system.

Every leak above has a system that plugs it, built for solar specifically, not a generic template. Follow any one to see exactly what we build.

AI chatbot

Homeowners comparing quotes ask the same questions at all hours: how much will this cut my bill, what happens on a cloudy day, is my roof suitable, how long is the payback, do I qualify for the certificates. Each one either pulls a consultant off a live quote or, after hours, banks up as a form submission that goes cold before anyone replies.

What we build →

AI knowledge base

Your real knowledge of pricing, panel and inverter selection, roof types, install quirks and which certificate rules apply to which job lives in a couple of senior consultants and a scatter of past proposals. When they are busy, quoting slows to their pace, and a new consultant cannot design a competitive system without leaning on them for every job.

What we build →

Compliance automation

Every accredited install has to become a small-scale technology certificate claim, and that means assembling install data, panel and inverter serials, signatures and compliance evidence to the Clean Energy Regulator's rules, by hand. It is slow, error-prone admin, and a submission that is late, incomplete or rejected is real certificate revenue held up or lost, discovered well after the installer has left the roof.

What we build →

Executive dashboard

The numbers that tell you whether the business is healthy, leads by source, quote-to-close, installs booked, STCs outstanding, margin per job, live across your CRM, your OpenSolar designs, your monitoring portals and Xero, and none of them line up. Assembling a true picture takes days, so by the time you see conversion has dropped or certificates are banking up, the problem is well advanced.

What we build →

Lead generation engine

Enquiries for solar arrive by phone, web form and marketplace lead and land in different inboxes. In a sale where the fastest callback wins, some get a response in minutes and some sit for a day, and because a deal takes weeks to close nobody can say which campaign, referral or channel actually produced the installs you win.

What we build →

Automation and integration

Between an enquiry and a claimed certificate, the same job details get re-keyed across your CRM, OpenSolar, your install scheduling and Xero, and the handoffs depend on someone remembering to update the next system. It is slow, it ties up admin time, and every re-key is a chance for a wrong serial or a missed step that surfaces later as a rejected STC or an install that fell through a crack.

What we build →

Conversation intelligence

The sales conversations that win or lose a solar deal happen on the phone and at the kitchen table, then vanish. Managers coach on the one or two calls they happened to overhear, while the objection that keeps killing deals, the payback doubt, the battery hesitation, the competitor comparison, never shows up in any report and never gets a better answer built for it.

What we build →

Custom platform

Every solar business has the part of its operation that no product fits, run on a spreadsheet and a lot of goodwill: a specific battery-upsell campaign, a monitoring-to-warranty follow-up process, an installer scheduling quirk, a way of tracking something particular to how you sell and install. It works until it does not, and it quietly caps how many installs you can run without it breaking.

What we build →

The tool landscape

Built around the software you already run.

OpenSolarNearMapFronius Solar.webEnphase EnlightenSolarEdge monitoringHubSpotSalesforceXero

Bamco builds around and into the stack you already run. We do not ask you to rip out OpenSolar or your monitoring portals; we build the systems that make them talk to each other and stop the manual work between them.

Common questions

Questions from solar owners

Do we have to replace OpenSolar or our monitoring portals to work with Bamco?

No. Bamco builds around and into the stack you already run. The systems we build make OpenSolar, NearMap, your monitoring portals, your CRM and Xero talk to each other and remove the manual work between them, rather than asking you to rip anything out and start again.

Which solar leak should we fix first?

Usually the one bleeding the most margin you can measure, which for many retailers is slow lead response in a competitive cycle or the STC paperwork holding up certificate revenue. A systems audit maps your specific leaks and puts a rough size on each, so you fix the most valuable one first rather than the loudest.

We are a small installer, not a large retailer. Does this still apply?

Yes. Small installers leak in the same places, slow callbacks, quotes that take too long, manual STC claims, upsell that never happens, and the same systems apply. The audit is scoped to your operation, whether you are a one-crew installer or a multi-branch retailer.

How much does a solar system cost?

Engagements typically start around $50k and are scoped after an audit, priced as a fraction of what a legacy build of the same capability would have quoted. You get a fixed-scope proposal with a real number before anything is built, and you own what we build.

Start here

Two doors. Same senior team.

Whether you can name exactly what you want built, or you just know something is leaking, the next step is the same conversation.