Every surface a candidate
Façades, glazing zones, spandrels, roofs and canopies are treated as individual candidate surfaces with area, orientation and position — derived from the canonical model, not building-average assumptions.
Product
Rapid screening that surfaces where solar deserves study
A first pass across every candidate surface — roofs, façades, glazing zones, spandrels and canopies — scored on exposure, product fit, economics, carbon, constructability and data confidence. Fast enough for a portfolio; explainable enough to defend.
What screening does
Geometry-driven, position-aware, comparable
Context applied, not ignored
Solar position across the day and year is matched to each surface's orientation and tilt, with horizon and geometry-based shading context layered on — two adjacent zones of the same façade can land in very different bands.
Scored and explained
The PV Opportunity Score combines solar potential, deployable surface, economic return, carbon impact, constructability, energy utilisation and data confidence — each component visible and contestable.
The score
A PV Opportunity Score you can interrogate
Instead of a single black-box number, SolaMaxa breaks every opportunity into the drivers behind it. Challenge a component — the shading context, the product fit, the utilisation assumption — and re-score with your own inputs.
Scores are labelled complete, provisional or insufficient-data. A component with no inputs is reported as unavailable — never quietly filled with a neutral value.
PV Opportunity Score82 / 100
Illustrative- Solar Potential92
- Economic Return74
- Carbon Impact88
- Constructability69
- Energy Utilisation83
- Data Confidence78
What screening is — and is not
Read the fidelity label
Screening is
- A fast, comparable basis across zones, buildings and portfolios
- Geometry- and position-driven, with shading context
- Decision-grade for ranking where to look first
Screening is not
- Detailed engineering — hourly physics lives in the detailed engine
- A guarantee of yield, cost or structural feasibility
- A substitute for professional engineering review
Beyond one building
The same basis, across an estate
Portfolios rank assets by the same authoritative Opportunity Score, with data confidence alongside so a high score on thin data doesn't outrank a solid one. Buildings without complete analysis are shown as exactly that.
See it on a building you know
Screen a building you know.
Bring a project, a portfolio or a product question. We'll run the whole-envelope screening with you and show where the score comes from.
SolaMaxa is pre-beta. We are currently selecting the first architectural, BIPV, engineering and property teams.