Aurora integrates sales to permitting

These products show where Aurora wins, by turning solar design from an engineer only desktop task into a workflow that starts in sales and carries through permitting. HelioScope and PVsyst are strongest when a team needs detailed layout, yield, and simulation work. Aurora wraps design into a broader operating flow where a rep can build a proposal from an address, generate a 3D roof model, and push sold projects into plan set creation without switching systems.

• HelioScope came from Folsom Labs as cloud software for commercial PV design, built to help EPCs and developers lay out systems fast and estimate production accurately. That makes it a direct fit for engineering teams optimizing projects, rather than for a residential sales rep trying to close a homeowner in one meeting.
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• PVsyst is even more clearly an engineering tool. Its core job is simulation, using component databases, weather data, loss assumptions, and profitability calculations to model how a solar project should perform over time. It is the kind of software used to validate system output, not to run quoting, financing, and permitting workflows.
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• Aurora has moved further down the workflow. Sales Mode gives reps a guided selling interface, and Aurora also offers plan set and instant permitting tools. That product shape matters because soft costs in solar increasingly sit in customer acquisition, design revisions, and local permitting, not just in panel layout itself.
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The market is moving toward fewer disconnected tools and more solar specific systems of record. Engineering simulators will remain important, especially for complex commercial projects, but the bigger software budgets are likely to flow to platforms that connect proposal, design, approval, and post sale handoff in one place.