Product Intelligence is the platform layer that screening, design, specification and procurement all read from: an evolving catalogue of BIPV and envelope products where every authoritative value is traceable to a source — and every material change passes human review.
Coverage grows continuously across manufacturers, regions and product roles. It is an evolving catalogue, not a claim of complete worldwide coverage.
Canonical organisations with brands, OEM/ODM and distributor relationships — one brand is not one factory. Product families carry the catalogue line; variants carry the concrete model data: dimensions, rated power, electrical characteristics, transparency, glazing make-up, weights and custom-sizing limits.
Generating products (PV glass, façade modules, solar tiles) and energy-managing products (dynamic glazing, solar-control films) are modelled in their own rights — daylight and solar-heat-gain data is stored in its own schema and never disguised as generation capacity.
Certifications are recorded as structured records — standard code, body, classification, validity, jurisdiction — kept verbatim. No equivalence is inferred between different national classification systems.
Fire-test records carry the tested assembly, build-up, orientation and laboratory. Where a rating applies only to the tested assembly, the platform says so — every time. It is never narrated into universal compliance.
Each technical field links to a source — datasheet, certification document, product page or certification body — with a confidence tier. Unknown values stay unknown: they are never converted into zero or a plausible-looking default. "Found on the internet" is not "verified".
State your requirements once — power, dimensions, transparency, certifications, fire classification, market availability — and the deterministic matcher evaluates every catalogue product against them with exact reasons. Missing product data yields "insufficient data", never a silent pass.
Required criteria gate eligibility; preferred criteria shape ranking; informational criteria feed comparison. Scope requirements to a project, a building, a surface or a single zone.
Every outcome carries a human-readable reason — "clear VLT 64% exceeds required 60%" — and a fit score you can decompose. Missing data is reported as insufficient, with the exact fields listed.
An AI-assisted advisory layer can explain the shortlist, surface trade-offs and draft manufacturer questions. It cannot promote an ineligible product, invent a certification, or override the matcher — every advisory is validated against the frozen results it explains.
Customer-added products are welcome: a submission stays usable in your project context, clearly labelled, and enters the global catalogue only after review.
Product data ages: datasheets are revised, products are discontinued, brands are rebranded. Continuous monitoring feeds findings into a human review queue — discoveries never silently overwrite verified facts, and discontinued products are never deleted from history.
Manufacturers and suppliers: see how your catalogue reads inside a live project. Project teams: see what evidence-backed matching changes in specification.
SolaMaxa is pre-beta. We are currently selecting the first architectural, BIPV, engineering and property teams.
