The installer decision, made with evidence.
Your panels will outlast three phones and two cars; the company that installs them matters for decades. We vet installers on what empanelment can't tell you, put three of them into one like-for-like comparison, and sit on your side for the negotiation.
India’s rooftop boom has produced thousands of solar installers, and the honest truth is that they range from excellent engineering firms to two-people-and-a-ladder operations that will not exist when your inverter faults in year three. From the outside they look identical: everyone is ‘MNRE-registered’, everyone has glossy photos, everyone promises 25 years. The information a buyer actually needs — who shows up for service calls, whose workmanship passes inspection first time, whose quoted brand is what actually arrives on the roof — is exactly the information no brochure contains.
We collect it the unglamorous way: empanelment and registration verified with the DISCOM, installed sites checked, component supply chains and warranty paper examined, and past customers asked the only question that matters — what happened when something broke? Installers who clear that bar go into our vetted pool. When you engage us, three of them quote against a single specification (ideally the one our survey produced), and you receive a comparison where every line is comparable: price, component tier, warranty terms, commissioning scope, service commitments.
Then we help you choose and negotiate — knowing what fair pricing looks like in your city this quarter, which terms are worth pushing on, and which ‘discounts’ are pre-inflated. Our recommendation comes with reasoning, and our fee structure has no connection to which vendor wins. You sign directly with the installer; we stay on your side of the table throughout.
Procurement, run properly.
- Five-point installer vetting
- Empanelment status, verifiable installed base, component sourcing and warranty paper, workmanship standards, and real after-sales history — checked before anyone quotes you.
- One specification, three bids
- All vendors quote the same capacity, component classes, mounting, protections and warranty definitions — so differences in the bids are differences that matter.
- The comparison table
- Line-by-line: price per Wp, brand tiers, warranty terms (product vs performance, and who honours them), commissioning scope, service commitments. Plus our recommendation and its reasoning.
- Negotiation support
- What fair pricing looks like for your city and size class, which contract terms to push, and where a low bid hides a cost. You decide; we arm the decision.
- Contract hygiene
- Payment milestones tied to progress, warranty documents named and attached, delivery and commissioning dates in writing — the boring clauses that prevent expensive arguments.
- Installation oversight
- Spot checks that what was quoted is what's being installed — module serial numbers, inverter model, structure gauge, earthing — before sign-off, not after.
Independence isn’t a slogan here. It’s the product.
- No commissions from installers. Not on wins, not on referrals, not as ‘partnership fees’. If a vendor relationship ever compromised that, the vendor would leave the pool.
- You contract directly. The installation agreement, warranties and payments run between you and the installer. We hold no margin in the middle to protect.
- The pool is earned, not paid for. Installers cannot buy their way into our vetted pool, and they exit it when service quality slips. Ask us why any specific vendor is or isn’t in it — we’ll tell you.
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Vetting & quotes: clear answers.
- Because the PM Surya Ghar subsidy requires it: only installations by vendors empanelled with your DISCOM qualify for the CFA. Empanelment is a floor, not a ceiling — it confirms registration and basic capability, not workmanship or service quality. Our vetting starts at empanelment and then checks what empanelment can't tell you.
- Five things: empanelment and registration status with your DISCOM; verifiable installed base (sites you or we can check, not just claims); component sourcing — which module, inverter and structure brands they actually supply, with warranty documents; workmanship standards on electrical protections, earthing and mounting; and after-sales reality — how they responded to year-two and year-three service calls from past customers.
- They can't — which is the trick some vendors rely on. We fix it by having all three quote against one specification (capacity, component classes, mounting, protections, warranty definitions, commissioning scope). Whatever still differs is then a real difference — price, brand tier, service terms — and the comparison table makes it visible.
- No. Our vetting and comparison don't earn a rupee from the winning vendor — no commissions, no referral fees, no 'preferred partner' arrangements. That independence is the entire value of the service: a recommendation you can trust precisely because nobody paid for it.
- Sometimes — when it's cheapest for legible reasons (leaner overheads, a fair-value component tier you consciously chose). But an unexplained lowest bid in a like-for-like comparison usually means a corner you can't see yet: a substituted component, thinner structure, vaguer warranty, or a vendor pricing to win and disappear. The comparison exists to tell those two situations apart.