It’s Time Solar Finance Companies Raised Their Standards
The residential solar industry has been grappling with reputation problems for a while now. Predatory sales tactics, high-pressure door-knocking, inflated system sizes, and misleading savings
May 2026 Product Updates: More of Your Data Now Lives Inside the 3D Design Space
Every update we ship typically builds on two major themes: Scanifly is the source of record for your field data, your designs, and your project
Why We Finally Built a Solar Proposal Tool
Scanifly built its reputation on drone-based design and field operations. Here’s why we resisted building a solar proposal tool for years, what changed our minds,
Design Everything at Every Stage: A Guide to Scanifly Design Services
86% of design errors and revisions stem from bad data. Outdated satellite imagery. Measurements taken by hand. A layout that looked fine on your initial
What Is Photogrammetry? And Why It Matters for Solar Design
If you’ve heard the word photogrammetry thrown around in solar circles and nodded along without being totally sure what it means, you’re not alone. It’s
How Solar Designs Get Manipulated, and What Finance Companies Should Do About It
Remote solar design tools have made the sales process faster and cheaper. A rep can build a proposal, generate a shading analysis, and submit it
The New Layers and Properties UI is Live
The Layers and Properties panes look different now, and they work differently, too. We rebuilt how you navigate between roof segments, reorganized where design layers
There Will Be No More Solar Contractors
A couple of weeks ago, I had one of those weeks that felt like it was trying to tell me something. Our Q1 board meeting
This is our first product update of 2026, and we’ve been busy. Over the past month, we shipped a wave of updates that may have
Solar’s Next Chapter: Why O&M Is Becoming a Real Profit Center
It took 70 years to build the first terawatt of US solar. The second TW? Just three years. Solar has been the number one new
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