We’ve used Solo, OpenSolar, and Solargraf. Our biggest issues across other platforms have been scalability and inaccurate information—especially with shading. Aurora allowed us to build a standard process across our business that’s both scalable and extremely accurate. It’s helped us reduce proposal time from 1–2 hours to under 20 minutes and improve team efficiency across the board.
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Accurate at every stage, from design to signed permit
Aurora handles design, proposals, financing, contracts, and plan sets with physics-based accuracy, so your reps close deals on-site and your designs clear inspection. Solar, battery storage, and home electrification in one integrated workflow.
Why solar professionals choose Aurora
Accuracy, not approximations
Aurora's standard-setting production estimates are built on validated physics and real site data, not approximations, so your reps walk in with numbers customers can trust, and sign on.
Automation across the whole job
Aurora automates across every stage of the job: design, pricing, contracting, and permitting. The manual work disappears at each handoff, not just the first one.
Built around your business
Aurora configures to your pricing, your proposals, your workflows, and your team structure with extensive integrations and controls, so your software fits your business instead of the other way around.
Residential Solutions
Aurora’s residential solutions have you covered from first design to signed permit, no matter how big your company is. Click through the tabs to learn more.
Design Solutions
Design Mode
Design every project right
Aurora models the roof, places panels, runs shading analysis, and generates a code-compliant layout in one session, covering solar, battery storage, and energy optimizations (HVAC, EV Chargers, and more). Whether your team designs manually, accelerates with Aurora AI, or works from a drone-captured roof model, the design is accurate enough to sell and build from.
Aurora AI
Automate the design process
Aurora AI and other advanced automations generate a roof model and code-compliant panel layout in minutes, automatically handling shading analysis, stringing, and fire pathways. The result is a contract-ready design your rep can take straight into a sales conversation, without waiting on a designer.
Expert Design Services
Scale design capacity without adding headcount
Expert Design Services (EDS) lets you order completed, code-compliant roof models from Aurora’s expert design team on demand. When your own capacity is stretched, submit the project through EDS and get your finished roof model in ~3 hours — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — so your sales volume never outpaces your design output.
Drone Mapping
Convert drone data to a design-ready roof model
Fly the site and then upload your drone data directly into Aurora to create accurate drone maps to model against. Bundle your map with an Expert Design Services roof model to get a human-built roof model from your captured data the same day.
Sales Solutions
Sales Mode
Professional proposals, backed by accurate design
Sales Mode turns your Aurora design into a customized, interactive proposal for solar and electrification upgrades. From adding energy usage to calculating pricing, financing options, and expected savings, your teams have everything they need to sell effectively and build trust with customers, all in one mobile-friendly proposal. Your reps can even design live with the homeowner, with guardrails in place to make sure the design always stays accurate.
Financing
Every financing option, one proposal
Aurora lets you quote any financing you offer in your proposal, whether it’s through one of our many integrations with leading loan and TPO providers or a custom financing option. Your team can present cash, loan, TPO, and prepaid TPO options side-by-side so the customer can choose what’s best for them. All financing is based on industry-leading design accuracy that holds up when the deal reaches the lender.
Contract Manager
Close the deal right from your proposal
Contract Manager generates the contract directly from the final proposal, carrying every term, price, and system spec through automatically. Then it routes the contract to the homeowner through Docusign for e-signature, moving the job from proposal to signed contract without leaving Aurora.
Post-Sales Solutions
Drone Mapping
True-up with data your team captured
After the close, fly the roof and merge new drone data against the sold design inside Aurora to get the project install-ready. You catch any discrepancies before materials are ordered, not after crews arrive, without putting boots on the roof.
Plan Sets and Engineering Stamps
From design to permit, without leaving Aurora
Aurora offers two paths to permit-ready plan sets and stamps, both right in the platform where the design lives. Instant Plan Sets puts you in control, generating permit documentation from your design in under 60 seconds. Where Instant Plan Sets isn’t available, Plan Sets Service delivers AHJ-ready plan sets in 24-48 hours, with a 95% first-time AHJ approval rate and no outside vendor to manage.
Racking
Racking integrated from design to order
Aurora’s racking integrations let you design your specific racking system to spec within the platform and generate a complete bill of materials automatically. The bill of materials flows directly to supplier ordering, so what’s designed is what gets ordered, with no manual steps between.
Enterprise Solutions
Team Managment
Built around how your organization runs
Teams lets you mirror your organization’s structure inside Aurora, assigning users to teams and controlling which projects each team can access. Managers can filter and view projects by team to track performance by business unit, so you know how each office, region, or partner is running, down to the project level.
Integrations
One coordinated residential stack
Aurora’s pre-built integrations with leading CRMs, financing platforms, and field operations tools keep your data flowing between systems automatically. Aurora sits at the center of your tech stack and keeps everything in sync.
API
Connect anything your workflow requires
The Aurora API connects your CRM, financing platforms, and operations tools to Aurora’s data in real time. Build the integrations your workflow requires, or use Aurora’s pre-built connectors to get up and running faster.
See it in action
The end-to-end platform your business needs
Watch how Aurora takes a solar project from first roof model to signed contract.
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More than 7,000 solar organizations, from two-person sales teams to national dealers, rely on Aurora to design, sell, and deliver solar. Over 20 million projects designed, and counting.
- 20M+ Projects designed on Aurora
- 7,000+ Solar organizations supported
With Solo, I kept running into inaccurate designs and slow proposal turnaround. Switching to Aurora was a game-changer. I can turn around designs in under 30 minutes, my close rate jumped from 30% to 65%, and we’ve seen fewer change orders and smoother handoffs. If you’re on the fence, don’t doubt it—Aurora is practical, efficient, and constantly improving.
Solo’s sun exposure estimates caused production failures and costly change orders. With Aurora, the designs are accurate, and turnaround is way faster.
I’ve used OpenSolar and Solargraf but the designs were inaccurate and hard to use. With Aurora, it’s just smoother. We save 30+ minutes per design—and it’s easier to close when the customer sees everything laid out clearly.
We switched from Solargraf because we (the sales team) needed a more versatile platform as we scaled. Design time dropped by 70% and our close rates went up 30%.
We found that [Solargraf] wasn’t as technically oriented as our sale was… Aurora is the only tool in the market that matches the technical acumen of our team.
Working with the Aurora team has been a highly collaborative and positive experience. Our teams have worked, and continue to work exceptionally well together to bring this integration to market. Their commitment to innovation and clear communication made the process straightforward. Together, we’re ensuring customers get the most accurate data to model solar systems more efficiently and effectively, driving the clean energy transition forward.
Thanks to Aurora Solar’s platform, our Partner Installers can now seamlessly offer EnFin's competitive financing options to homeowners. This collaboration has significantly enhanced our ability to make solar energy accessible and affordable, empowering more homeowners to embrace clean energy solutions.
Aurora's flexibility, dedication, and support made building our integration together a breeze. Our combined innovation and expertise helped us deliver a customer-first experience for Lightreach TPO products within Aurora.
The Aurora Sungage integration has been a game changer for our installer partners who rely on Aurora's leading design capabilities and Sungage financing. From building the technical integration to going to market, the team was extremely collaborative, easy to work with– and is invested in the long-term success of our tech solution.
I would go as far as to say it’s impossible to scale without a tool like Aurora. It makes sure we’re not pitching things we can’t uphold or making promises we can’t deliver on.
We found that [SolarGraf] wasn’t as technically oriented as our sale was. That’s when we decided to look at other softwares that would give our reps and clients the accuracy they need to make the right buying decision on solar… Aurora is the only tool in the market that matches the technical acumen of our team.
Never once with Aurora have I been in a position where I’ve felt like I’ve over-promised and under-delivered.
Because it [Aurora] builds a house for you, it's super simple. You're basically adding the panels and getting the panel count right, and you're done. I could create a proposal in probably like less than three minutes. That’s how great it is.
More jobs are going to install because the homeowner feels confident that they’re actually going to get what we originally showed them.
We’ve used Solo, OpenSolar, and Solargraf. Our biggest issues across other platforms have been scalability and inaccurate information—especially with shading. Aurora allowed us to build a standard process across our business that’s both scalable and extremely accurate. It’s helped us reduce proposal time from 1–2 hours to under 20 minutes and improve team efficiency across the board.
With Solo, I kept running into inaccurate designs and slow proposal turnaround. Switching to Aurora was a game-changer. I can turn around designs in under 30 minutes, my close rate jumped from 30% to 65%, and we’ve seen fewer change orders and smoother handoffs. If you’re on the fence, don’t doubt it—Aurora is practical, efficient, and constantly improving.
Solo’s sun exposure estimates caused production failures and costly change orders. With Aurora, the designs are accurate, and turnaround is way faster.
I’ve used OpenSolar and Solargraf but the designs were inaccurate and hard to use. With Aurora, it’s just smoother. We save 30+ minutes per design—and it’s easier to close when the customer sees everything laid out clearly.
We switched from Solargraf because we (the sales team) needed a more versatile platform as we scaled. Design time dropped by 70% and our close rates went up 30%.
We found that [Solargraf] wasn’t as technically oriented as our sale was… Aurora is the only tool in the market that matches the technical acumen of our team.
Working with the Aurora team has been a highly collaborative and positive experience. Our teams have worked, and continue to work exceptionally well together to bring this integration to market. Their commitment to innovation and clear communication made the process straightforward. Together, we’re ensuring customers get the most accurate data to model solar systems more efficiently and effectively, driving the clean energy transition forward.
Thanks to Aurora Solar’s platform, our Partner Installers can now seamlessly offer EnFin's competitive financing options to homeowners. This collaboration has significantly enhanced our ability to make solar energy accessible and affordable, empowering more homeowners to embrace clean energy solutions.
Aurora's flexibility, dedication, and support made building our integration together a breeze. Our combined innovation and expertise helped us deliver a customer-first experience for Lightreach TPO products within Aurora.
The Aurora Sungage integration has been a game changer for our installer partners who rely on Aurora's leading design capabilities and Sungage financing. From building the technical integration to going to market, the team was extremely collaborative, easy to work with– and is invested in the long-term success of our tech solution.
I would go as far as to say it’s impossible to scale without a tool like Aurora. It makes sure we’re not pitching things we can’t uphold or making promises we can’t deliver on.
We found that [SolarGraf] wasn’t as technically oriented as our sale was. That’s when we decided to look at other softwares that would give our reps and clients the accuracy they need to make the right buying decision on solar… Aurora is the only tool in the market that matches the technical acumen of our team.
Never once with Aurora have I been in a position where I’ve felt like I’ve over-promised and under-delivered.
Because it [Aurora] builds a house for you, it's super simple. You're basically adding the panels and getting the panel count right, and you're done. I could create a proposal in probably like less than three minutes. That’s how great it is.
More jobs are going to install because the homeowner feels confident that they’re actually going to get what we originally showed them.
We can see so many people so much faster. There was no way I could run 4-7 appointments per day using the tools we had before.
Interviews with installers using Aurora’s 3D modeling with shade and tilt analysis during the sales process found that its implementation resulted in as much as a 99 percent reduction in change orders.
Submitting the plan set was as smooth as can be and we had no issues with the AHJ. Our team has already saved a ton of time with this service.
The final product that we’re presenting to the homeowner is just so much more professional. The 3D models, sunpath, LIDAR, and other tools are very effective in a sale.
When you’re selling as much as we’re selling, you have to be able to deliver build-ready projects to your operations team. When sales and operations are aligned, that ultimately allows us to sell more. Aurora has allowed us to bridge that gap.
When we can be accurate on the front-end it helps reduce timelines on the back-end – and that cuts weeks and weeks out of projects.
We’ve had 4 cases where customers didn’t agree with the measurements on the Aurora design that we presented virtually. We decided to go out to the site and measure the house by hand with the homeowner, and in every instance, Aurora was correct. They were actually wrong about the measurements of their own home. The accuracy of the Aurora software, combined with our willingness to put it to the test on-site, helped close the deal each time!
It's such a game-changer that we don’t have to take Suneye readings anymore which saves us time and money. It's wonderful to utilize a platform like Aurora to be so confident in what the system will produce.
Aurora has given us the ability to design efficiently and be confident that we’re providing to the customer a detailed representation of what is going to be on-site without traveling there.
In less than a month utilizing Aurora’s Lead Capture AI, we were able to quadruple our web lead volume, and we see 25% higher set rates from our organic leads compared to those generated through other marketing channels. In my estimation, Lead Capture AI is effective because the tool leverages engaging visuals with readily quantified benefits, helping potential clients understand not only their savings, but what solar would realistically look like on their home.
Previous software was a very manual process, so sales reps could spend 2 hours in the home. Now they can get all of that done in about 20 mins.
We can now create a design for a home in a predetermined amount of time. When it becomes more of a push-of-a-button as opposed to an order, it definitely helps our efficiency. When that pipeline of jobs becomes exponentially bigger, it becomes more and more critical.
The value add to the sales process was huge because we can actually walk through the design with the homeowner. The customer feels like we’re redesigning and building it with them which lends more credibility to us as a company and makes it seem like we’re not just salespeople.
It's all about customer expectations. It's a great experience for everyone: the rep, the company, the customer. It makes the whole process easier when you get it right from the start
We can see so many people so much faster. There was no way I could run 4-7 appointments per day using the tools we had before.
Interviews with installers using Aurora’s 3D modeling with shade and tilt analysis during the sales process found that its implementation resulted in as much as a 99 percent reduction in change orders.
Submitting the plan set was as smooth as can be and we had no issues with the AHJ. Our team has already saved a ton of time with this service.
The final product that we’re presenting to the homeowner is just so much more professional. The 3D models, sunpath, LIDAR, and other tools are very effective in a sale.
When you’re selling as much as we’re selling, you have to be able to deliver build-ready projects to your operations team. When sales and operations are aligned, that ultimately allows us to sell more. Aurora has allowed us to bridge that gap.
When we can be accurate on the front-end it helps reduce timelines on the back-end – and that cuts weeks and weeks out of projects.
We’ve had 4 cases where customers didn’t agree with the measurements on the Aurora design that we presented virtually. We decided to go out to the site and measure the house by hand with the homeowner, and in every instance, Aurora was correct. They were actually wrong about the measurements of their own home. The accuracy of the Aurora software, combined with our willingness to put it to the test on-site, helped close the deal each time!
It's such a game-changer that we don’t have to take Suneye readings anymore which saves us time and money. It's wonderful to utilize a platform like Aurora to be so confident in what the system will produce.
Aurora has given us the ability to design efficiently and be confident that we’re providing to the customer a detailed representation of what is going to be on-site without traveling there.
In less than a month utilizing Aurora’s Lead Capture AI, we were able to quadruple our web lead volume, and we see 25% higher set rates from our organic leads compared to those generated through other marketing channels. In my estimation, Lead Capture AI is effective because the tool leverages engaging visuals with readily quantified benefits, helping potential clients understand not only their savings, but what solar would realistically look like on their home.
Previous software was a very manual process, so sales reps could spend 2 hours in the home. Now they can get all of that done in about 20 mins.
We can now create a design for a home in a predetermined amount of time. When it becomes more of a push-of-a-button as opposed to an order, it definitely helps our efficiency. When that pipeline of jobs becomes exponentially bigger, it becomes more and more critical.
The value add to the sales process was huge because we can actually walk through the design with the homeowner. The customer feels like we’re redesigning and building it with them which lends more credibility to us as a company and makes it seem like we’re not just salespeople.
It's all about customer expectations. It's a great experience for everyone: the rep, the company, the customer. It makes the whole process easier when you get it right from the start
