Find commercial solar sales opportunities in a market
MAIA finds every commercial building in a county with the roof, load, and incentives to support a solar deal, plus every array already built, then resolves the owner behind each one. Solar teams use it to build an outbound list, or to work outward from current customers where the installation next door is the social proof. Sourcing starts from every roof in the market, not from a lead list.
How it works
Find every candidate roof
Zoning and building footprints pull every commercial and industrial parcel with a building over 15,000 square feet. Imagery then scores each roof for solar: flat, few obstructions, and enough usable area for your project sizes.
Qualify the owner
MAIA checks whether each parcel is owner-occupied, whether the owner is a nonprofit, and whether its website carries ESG commitments. Every roof lands in a segment you can campaign to.
Resolve the decision maker
Assessor records and corporate filings pierce the LLC to the operating owner. Contact enrichment adds the right decision maker with real contact details, and every row keeps the records behind it.
The property database, an afternoon of satellite view, and the hand-built campaign list.
Questions teams like yours ask MAIA
Asked in plain language. Answered across every parcel in your territory at once.
Who owns each commercial solar installation in this market?
Aerial imagery and public records find every existing array, and assessor records and state corporate filings resolve each one to its operating owner and the rest of their portfolio.
Which commercial buildings could support 2 MW or more?
Usable roof area from footprints and imagery becomes an estimated system size, checked against roof height, obstructions, and load, so every building in the county ranks against your threshold.
Which owner-occupied, commercial buildings have ESG commitments and strong incentives?
Owner occupancy is confirmed from assessor and business records, and the owner's website and filings are read for sustainability commitments. Each match carries the incentives that apply at its address.
Which eligible buildings sit near our current customers?
Upload your customer list. MAIA finds every roof within your radius and ranks them by proximity, so the installation next door is your social proof.
Which flat, unobstructed roofs fit our target system size?
Imagery rates each roof's area, obstructions, and height, and rolls them into one solar-readiness score. The roofs that fit your project sizes sort to the top.
Who is the owner, the operating company, and the contact behind each match?
Assessor records and state corporate filings pierce the LLC to the operating owner and the occupant, and contact enrichment returns the most senior person with real contact details.
The data underneath
Every result carries the record it came from, so the analysis is cited and defensible.
| Screen for | Dataset | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Zoning and building size | Commercial & industrial parcels with buildings over 15K sq ft | County assessor and property records; building footprints and heights |
| Roof suitability | Satellite imagery scored for flat, unobstructed roofs | Building footprints and heights; computer vision on current aerial imagery |
| System size | Estimated capacity from usable roof area and roof height | Building footprints and heights; computer vision on current aerial imagery |
| Existing solar | Arrays confirmed in imagery and cross-checked against public records | Computer vision on current aerial imagery; cited web research |
| Owner occupancy | Assessor owner matched against the business at the address | County assessor and property records; verified business locations |
| Nonprofit status and ESG | Owner websites, filings, and public sustainability statements | County assessor and property records; cited web research |
| Decision maker | Corporate filings, LLC resolution, and contact enrichment | County assessor and property records; cited web research; multi-source contact intelligence |
How Namaste Solar Finds Solar-Ready Buildings Using MAIA
Todd Holtan, Commercial Sales, Namaste Solar · Colorado · September 3, 2026
What they knew
Founded in Boulder in 2005, Namaste Solar is an employee-owned installer of more than 200 people, with a commercial team that believed there was an untapped market of commercial and nonprofit solar opportunities across Colorado. They had never invested in an outbound motion because it was difficult to manually source lists for their campaigns. Every campaign was pieced together one building at a time from CoStar exports, Google Maps searches, manual satellite review, and LinkedIn prospecting, an inefficient way to build a list.
What they asked
Which commercial and nonprofit buildings in Boulder, Denver, Adams counties are owner-occupied, solar-ready, and best suited to our available project sizes?
What MAIA did
Screened every commercial and industrial parcel
Zoning and building footprints pulled every parcel with a building over 15,000 square feet. Usable roof area set an estimated system size, and anything under 150 kW dropped out.
Scored each roof for solar readiness
Imagery rated obstructions as minimal, typical, or heavy, flagged roofs over 100 feet and likely parking structures, and removed buildings that already had solar. Roof size, obstructions, and height rolled into a 1 to 10 readiness score.
Resolved the owner and the call
Owner occupancy, nonprofit status, and ESG language on the owner's website sorted each building into a segment. Corporate filings pierced the LLC to the decision maker, with a why-now and a talking point attached to each contact.
What came back
- 48 nonprofit buildings in Denver County cleared every screen, out of 386 parcels
- 1,400+ buildings over 15,000 square feet mapped in Boulder County, including 163 education buildings, with views for nonprofits, healthcare, houses of worship, ownership, and ESG
- A solar-readiness score from 1 to 10 on every roof, feeding a Salesforce-ready lead file that assigns each account to a rep
What they did next
Namaste Solar is running email, phone, and direct-mail campaigns on the list. The team has codified its workflow into a MAIA skill to repeat and reuse across geographies. Its MAIA export is configured to load straight into Salesforce, so the team spends more time on outreach and building relationships and less time on manual research and prospecting.
Namaste Solar is a local Colorado solar energy company with over 20 years of experience. We know the market well, so we have to be extremely targeted in our approach. MAIA enables us to identify the best rooftops, research the businesses that own them, and find the right point of contact. It empowers our team to do highly targeted outreach in a way that was never possible before.
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