Aurora Solar is positioned as a residential solar design and sales solution, emphasizing "physics-based precision" and covering every stage from design to signed permits. Its core propositions include: providing accurate energy production estimates based on validated physics models and real site data, rather than approximations; automating every step of design, pricing, contracts, and permitting to reduce manual handoffs; and being configurable to a company's pricing, proposals, workflows, and team structure, with extensive integrations and controls.
The main capabilities are divided into residential solutions, sales solutions, post-sale solutions, and enterprise solutions.
Design Mode within residential solutions: Aurora can model roofs, place components, run shade analysis, and generate code-compliant layouts in a single session, covering solar, battery storage, and energy optimization (HVAC, EV chargers, etc.). Teams can design manually, accelerate with Aurora AI, or work from drone-captured roof models. Aurora AI and other advanced automation can generate roof models and code-compliant component layouts in minutes, automatically handling shade analysis, stringing, and fire pathways, producing contract-ready designs. Expert Design Services (EDS) allows on-demand ordering of completed, code-compliant roof models from Aurora's expert design team, with the information stating delivery in about 3 hours, available around the clock. Drone mapping allows drone data to be uploaded directly to Aurora to generate accurate drone maps for modeling, and can be paired with Expert Design Services to obtain a manually built roof model the same day.
Sales Mode within sales solutions: turn Aurora designs into customized, interactive proposals for solar and electrification upgrades. From adding energy usage to calculating pricing, financing options, and expected savings, teams can sell within mobile-friendly proposals and design live in front of homeowners, while guardrails ensure the design remains accurate. Financing features support quoting any financing option in proposals, including integrations with leading loan and TPO providers or custom financing options, can present cash, loan, TPO, and prepaid TPO options side by side, and financing is based on industry-leading design accuracy. Contract management can generate contracts directly from the final proposal, automatically carrying in all terms, prices, and system specifications, and send them to homeowners via Docusign for e-signature, moving from proposal to signed contract without leaving Aurora.
Drone mapping within post-sale solutions: after the sale, fly the roof and merge the new drone data with the sold design in Aurora to bring the project to an install-ready state, identifying discrepancies before ordering materials. Drawings and engineering stamChapters: Provide two paths to obtain licensable drawings and stamps. Instant Plan Sets can generate permit documents from a design within 60 seconds; where Instant Plan Sets are unavailable, Plan Sets Service delivers drawings compliant with AHJ requirements within 24-48 hours, with materials stating a 95% first-time AHJ approval rate, and no need to manage external vendors. Racking integration: Within the platform, design specific racking systems to specifications and automatically generate a complete bill of materials; the bill of materials flows directly to supplier ordering, what is designed is what is ordered, with no manual steps.
Team management in enterprise solutions: Mirror the organizational structure within Aurora, assign users to teams, and control the projects accessible to each team; managers can filter and view projects by team. Integrations: Prebuilt integrations with leading CRMs, financing platforms, and field operations tools keep data flowing automatically. API: The Aurora API can connect CRMs, financing platforms, and operations tools to Aurora data in real time, and prebuilt connectors can also be used for quick startup.
Use cases: Residential solar businesses of various sizes, from sales teams to national distributors. Materials state that more than 7,000 solar organizations rely on Aurora to design, sell, and permit solar, with cumulative designed projects exceeding 20 million.
Limitations: The materials do not provide details such as specific pricing, charging models, free trials, platform availability regions, language support, or hardware requirements; this information is not currently available.
