Sourcing BIPV usually lives in email threads and spreadsheets where "excluded" and "not stated" quietly become zero. SolaMaxa packages a placement strategy into a controlled RFQ, takes structured responses, and normalises quotes to explicit comparison bases — so the commercial decision rests on comparable numbers.
Deterministic supplier discovery from the product catalogue's company identity — manufacturers, authorised distributors and regional representatives, each with the evidence behind the relationship. No unproven "authorised" claims.
Quantities and scope come from the accepted placement strategy — never fabricated. Data gaps and manufacturer questions import as structured questions so suppliers answer what the project actually needs.
Approval and issue are separate human steps. Issuing freezes the complete commercial record behind a hash; a branded PDF document goes out, and revisions create new versions rather than rewriting history.
Supplier responses and documents are recorded with provenance against the RFQ version they answered. Responses feed product intelligence only as human-reviewed candidates — never as automatic catalogue updates.
The supplier's original response is the authoritative record and is never overwritten. Normalisation derives structured, provenance-carrying quote data — line items, cost categories, logistics, terms.
Compare product-supply, landed or installed bases with explicit scope states, currency snapshots and Incoterms — and a transparent, chosen ordering key. Decisions are recorded with the comparison that informed them.
Every cost and scope element carries a state: included, separately priced, excluded, optional, not applicable — or unknown. An excluded cost is never treated as free, an unknown cost is never assumed, and the system never invents an adjustment to make two quotes artificially comparable. "Supplier B cannot be compared on a landed basis because freight is not stated" is a feature.
Requested versus offered values with typed compliance, and substitutions recorded with their rationale and effects — a supplier's marketing language never determines compliance; a person does.
Lead times structured only from explicit statements, currency conversion only via dated snapshots, and Incoterms stored exactly as quoted — FOB and DDP are not the same commercial scope.
A transparent completeness checklist per quote — price, scope, technical, certification, fire, logistics, warranty, lead time, terms. Completeness is reported as completeness; it never masquerades as technical compliance.
Your quotes stay yours: raw supplier pricing is confidential to the project and is never published, benchmarked across customers, or exposed to other organisations.
From accepted placement scenario to normalised, comparable quotes — we'll walk the whole path, including the honesty rule, on a real project setup.
SolaMaxa is pre-beta. We are currently selecting the first architectural, BIPV, engineering and property teams.
