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Scanifly’s employee spotlights showcase our team’s backgrounds, journeys into solar energy, and how they help solar contractors grow their businesses. In this Q&A, Daniel Castano discusses his journey from teaching in Taiwan to helping Solar contractors grow.

At Scanifly, we’ve spoken to hundreds of surveyors about the shift from manual on-site measurements (ladder and tape) to digital (drone with software). Here are the most common anxieties they had about the transition—and how they overcame them.

Scanifly tested the new Mini 3 Pro drone with over 20 flights in as many weather conditions as we could: windy, sunny, cloudy, and at night. In this review, we’re covering key information, the good, the bad, and our official opinion on the drone for solar surveyors.

Speaking with Scanifly, five contractors—Jim Jenal, co-founder of RunOnSun Solar; Kurt Ames, President of KW HOUR ENERGY; Micah Breeden, CFO, and Alyssa Traub, Project Development Manager, both at Allterra Solar; and Jennifer Kemme, the Owner of Vision Civil Engineering—explained the complex landscape of solar energy in California.

After launching the Surveyor Associate Program in November 2021, over 1,500 solar professionals signed up to learn the basics of drone flight and all of its benefits. In this article, we’re sharing a little more about the origins of the Surveyor Associate Program, and the launch of Scanifly Academy with the Advanced Surveyor Program.

Between sales, design, field teams, surveyors, installers, and project managers, everyone’s got data to track. This is where a central platform—most often a customer relationship management (CRM) system—becomes incredibly valuable. Here’s what you need to know about solar CRMs and what data to track.

In this review, Scanifly drone experts reviewed the DJI Air 2S to see how it could stand up to the rigors of solar surveying including camera quality, flight capabilities, and handling.

Originally founded as an engineering consulting company, CMTA now has a thriving energy solutions division that helps commercial organizations upgrade and renovate facilities through energy

When surveyors and designers don’t talk, everyone suffers. Not only is the whole team more prone to mistakes, but the company operates far less efficiently

Florida has been running on the sun for generations. Whether tourism, agriculture, or snowbirding, the sun has been a powerful economic draw to the aptly-named