Run 2-3x more installs without adding headcount.
Skyfire is the operational system residential solar shops run on. Design, permitting, compliance, interconnection — one app, one team working from it, and throughput that absorbs the external cost squeeze.
Your margin is leaking in four places. You know which ones.
Design is the bottleneck.
Every week your designer is backed up is a week of closed revenue sitting in a queue. Hiring a second designer doesn’t solve it — training, ramp-up, and quality variance just push the problem sideways.
Permit rejections cascade.
A redline from an AHJ isn’t just a delay on one project. It’s a truck roll. It’s a re-open of design, engineering, and sometimes the site survey. One rejected permit costs multiple days across multiple roles.
Handoff friction eats hours per project.
Sales waits on design. Design waits on survey. Permit coordinator waits on the designer. Install waits on the permit. Everyone’s waiting on someone, and nobody’s billing the time.
Tribal knowledge is concentrated in one or two people.
Your best designer knows which AHJ reviewers redline what. When they take a week off — or eventually leave — that knowledge walks out the door with them.
Same four places. Different math.
Plan sets in under 90 seconds.
Everything that needs to leave your shop — plans, permit package, interconnection submission, equipment spec sheets — generates in one pass. Your designer becomes a reviewer and quality-checker rather than a producer. Throughput multiplies.
Compliance runs at generate time.
Every AHJ rule, every utility requirement, every NEC code year — checked as plans are built, not after they’re submitted. Redlines drop because the things that get redlined don’t make it into the submission in the first place.
Every role works from the same project view.
Sales, design, permit coordinator, install, service — all in one app, same source of truth, real-time updates. Nobody’s re-explaining the project in a handoff meeting. Nobody’s status-checking in Slack. Nobody’s hoping the update they mentioned to the designer actually reached the permit coordinator.
Jurisdictional knowledge lives in the platform, not in a person’s head.
Every AHJ we’ve ever processed a project through, every redline we’ve ever received, every reviewer quirk — encoded. No more “let me ask the one person who knows that jurisdiction.” No more hoping your designer remembers the note from six months ago. No more re-discovering the same thing the third time a project hits the same jurisdiction. Your next new hire inherits the knowledge base on day one.
A cheap overseas plan set isn’t cheaper. It’s a different product.
A cheap overseas plan set is a single deliverable. You get a PDF. That’s it. What you don’t get: a compliance engine that caught the AHJ redline before submission. The interconnection application pre-filled with the right data. The ops dashboard that shows where every project is stuck. The equipment database that knows the service upgrade requirements for your AHJ. The platform your tech already uses in the field.
What you DO get, that you don’t see on the invoice: revision cycles when the designer in a 12-hour time zone missed the AHJ-specific requirement you called out. Permit rejections when the offshore designer didn’t know that this particular reviewer wants the conductor schedule formatted a specific way — and your team’s note about it didn’t make it to the designer doing the work. Four-to-six-week calendar delays when the offshore design comes back wrong and has to loop through two iterations. Time your ops lead spent project-managing an overseas team instead of running your shop.
Add it up. A cheap plan set with one revision cycle, one permit rejection, and one truck roll usually ends up costing several multiples of the line-item price by the time the project clears interconnection. And that’s the best case.
Same logic applies to your software stack. If you’re paying for a sales-proposal tool plus a CRM plus a design tool plus file storage plus spreadsheets holding it all together — that’s a substantial monthly spend across tools that don’t talk to each other. Skyfire is one system that replaces the stack, with one bill.
Pick one project. Run it through Skyfire. See the math on real work.
You don’t need to migrate your whole shop. You don’t need to commit to an annual contract. You don’t need the owner’s sign-off. Run one project — residential, from survey to interconnection filing — through Skyfire, and compare the per-project cost against what that same project would have cost on your current stack.
If the math doesn’t work, you’re out a few hours of evaluation time. If it does, you have real numbers to take to the owner.