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Solar Business SystemsEvery solar and battery job runs from enquiry to commissioning the same way, without you holding the whole sequence in your head.
Solar business systems are the written sequence behind every install: site assessment, design, quote, deposit, network application, stock order, install, commissioning, compliance certificates, rebate paperwork and handover. This page is for owners of solar and battery installation businesses who want to build their own systems on their own job data, shaped around how their crews install and how their customers buy.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Solar Business?
The STC deadline is a clock nobody is watching
Certificates have to be created within 12 months of installation, and the only thing standing between you and a job that never gets claimed is you remembering. One forgotten install is real money gone, and you will not notice until the deadline has passed.
Every job runs slightly differently
One installer photographs the switchboard and the compliance plate, another does not. One salesperson lodges the network application at quote stage, another waits until the deposit clears. Then a customer asks for their paperwork two years on and you spend an afternoon looking for it.
You are the only one who can answer anything
The crew rings you from a roof about a clearance question, the office rings you about an export limit, and the customer rings you because the salesperson has left. You cannot do a day of quoting because you are the manual everyone has to consult.
A business held together in one person's memory cannot grow, cannot be sold, and cannot survive the fortnight that person is off sick.
Data First Coaching
Solar Business Systems, Built on Your Own Data.
Data First Coaching starts from your own job and finance data. On that data you build the systems, software and business apps your solar business actually needs, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy, and AI agents take the office work. Greg Allan works it through with you.
How most coaching works
Most coaching for solar installers starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the solar business to a coach: the jobs, the crew, the customers, the money.
- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.
- So the advice treats what the owner happened to notice, which is usually a symptom.
- Too often it comes from someone who has never run a solar business, or any trade business at all.
- The owner pays for the explaining, then pays again when the advice does not fit.
Data First Coaching
Data first starts from your solar business's numbers, not your memory.
- The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance systems first.
- It sees your quotes, jobs, time on site and money as they are this week, the way solar installers actually make and lose it.
- It finds where the problem actually starts, not where it shows up.
- You put in the system that fixes it at the root, and the data shows whether it worked.
Which of these is the root cause in your solar business?
- The STC deadline is a clock nobody is watching
- Every job runs slightly differently
- You are the only one who can answer anything
Usually one of them is causing the others. Data first means your own numbers answer that before anybody guesses, so the fix goes where the problem starts.
| Rented software | Built on your own data | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Every trade at once | How your jobs actually run |
| Your data | Lives in somebody else's system | Yours, and it answers your questions |
| The cost | A subscription per seat, every month | What you build, kept as long as it earns its place |
| When it does not fit | Work around it, or wait for an update | Change it, because you built it |
| The office work | Still lands on you or an office wage | AI agents do it your way, people stay on customers |
| Where you start | A sales demo | Your own numbers, read by the Trade Business Intelligence Agent |
Fix the root cause, once
The data names the real problem, so the system you put in fixes it once instead of patching the same symptom every month.
Own your software
Build your own tools on your own data, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy. Cancel the subscriptions and agencies that were never built for your business.
A more human business
Agents do the non-billable work: the quoting, invoicing, chasing and reporting. Your people spend the day on customers and the crew, so relationships get better and the team performs.
Business systems, built by you
Here Is What We Do About It.
It starts with Greg Allan's Data First Coaching. The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance data, so you see where jobs actually stall: network approvals, stock, switchboard surprises or rebate paperwork that never gets lodged. Then you build your own systems around that root cause with Greg and the group. Start on the free Tradies App while you wait, and use AI Club to write the procedures your installers follow.
Data First Coaching
Greg Allan and the Trade Business Intelligence Agent start from your own job and finance data, then you build what fixes the root cause.
The Academy waitlist
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.
AI Club
Weekly live workshops building the automations that take the admin off you.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Let your data pick the first system
The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your jobs, quotes and money, and shows where the problem actually starts. That is the system you build first.
Build it your way, with Greg
You build the system yourself, shaped around how your jobs really run, with Greg and the group checking it against your numbers.
Put an agent on the steps nobody bills for
Once the system is written, AI agents run the office steps in it, the way you would, so the crew follows it and you stop being the one everything waits on.
Why Greg
You speak to the owner who has already done it.
Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.
He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.
Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.
What changes for you
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.
The old way
More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.
Most trade businesses grow the same way.
More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.
None of it gets paid for.
So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.
Or hires an office person to do it.
The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.
And the owner is still the one everything waits on.
Where we take you
More work. More profit. More of you left.
The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.
You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.
Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.
The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.
The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.
The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.
Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.
What changes
What Solar Installer Business Systems Actually Changes.
Three things solar business owners walk away able to do.
Run every job from site assessment to handover as a written sequence
Lodge network applications and rebate paperwork on time without you chasing
Hand installers a commissioning checklist they finish before leaving site
Questions
Solar Business Systems, Answered.
What is the first system a solar business should write down?
I already use OpenSolar and a CRM. Is that not systems enough?
Where does AI actually help a solar business?
Solar Installers
The Other Ways We Help Solar Installers.
Solar Business Training
Structured training that turns what solar installers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingSolar Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding solar installers to the plan. By application.
SoftwareSolar Business Software
Software solar installers build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
Business appsSolar Business Apps
The simple screens solar installers build for their crew and customers, on their own data.
AIAI for Solar Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for solar installers, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsSolar Business Marketing
How solar installers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitSolar Business Pricing
The number solar installers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamSolar Business Hiring
How solar installers build a crew that does it right without being watched.
Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.
The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.