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Rayform

Predictable solar revenue from every square foot of facade

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Commercial asset owners leave millions in clean energy incentives and electricity offsets untapped because traditional glass facades cannot support heavy structural solar panels.

Rayform is an enterprise spatial operating platform that transforms architectural glazing and fleet surfaces into active energy generators using ultra-thin adhesive solar membranes. The software generates sub-meter irradiation digital twins, automates local grid interconnect filings, and orchestrates live power export to cut building energy costs by up to 35%. By abstracting away complex structural engineering, asset managers can deploy peel-and-stick solar skins in days instead of quarters.

Rayform unlocks over 40B square feet of unmonetized commercial building envelope into distributed urban clean power.

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Problem
  • When I evaluate commercial buildings for renewable retrofits, I want to deploy solar on glass facades, but traditional photovoltaic systems exceed structural load limits and trigger $80k in upfront structural engineering fees.
  • Why Now: The commercial release of sub-millimeter self-adhesive solar membranes enables non-invasive facade application, yet owners lack software to model vertical solar yields, safety compliance, and micro-grid interconnects.
  • When I manage corporate ESG reporting, I want to lower grid electricity draw, but urban skyscraper footprints have tiny roof-to-facade ratios, forfeiting up to $450k in yearly local utility incentives.
  • When I coordinate clean power installations, I want to obtain utility permission-to-operate fast, but fragmented municipal facade codes cause over 6 months of administrative review delays.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual rooftop EPC contractors, generic solar modeling tools like Aurora Solar that only handle roofs, and static spreadsheet estimates.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Aurora Solar meets Palantir Foundry for ultra-thin facade membranes and commercial building skins.
  • Sub-meter vertical facade ray-tracing that simulates hourly solar harvest against ambient shading, window tint, and thermal coefficients.
  • Automated one-click utility interconnect generation and local jurisdiction fire/building code safety compliance packs.
  • Real-time micro-inverter telemetry and grid arbitrage engine that optimizes facade power distribution versus tenant load in real time.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Commercial real estate REITs and asset managers holding Class-A office buildings in high-mandate jurisdictions (e.g. NYC Local Law 97, California Title 24).
  • Direct channel partnerships with architectural glazing contractors and ultra-thin solar film manufacturers as the default software specification tool.
  • Targeted account-based sales to ESG directors at Fortune 500 corporate campuses using automated facade yield audits delivered as executive teasers.
  • Integration into commercial real estate asset management suites like Yardi and MRI Software for automated building energy benchmarking.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free (Single-building preliminary yield scan)
  • Pro ($2k/month per 500k sq ft managed for spatial modeling and compliance)
  • Enterprise ($8k/month + $0.015 per kWh generated for real-time grid dispatch and automated incentive capture).
  • One Metric That Matters (OMTM): Total Megawatt-hours (MWh) modeled and brought online under active grid dispatch.
  • Market Sizing: 25k target Class-A commercial towers in North America and EU represents an initial SOM of $600M in recurring software and dispatch revenue; SAM reaches $4.2B across global commercial glass infrastructure.
Scale Costs
  • High-resolution global LiDAR and 3D geospatial mesh licensing across metropolitan commercial districts.
  • Edge telemetry ingestion infrastructure processing second-by-second micro-inverter power metrics under enterprise SOC2 compliance.
  • Continuous municipal building code database maintenance across 500+ regional utility and zoning jurisdictions.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.4
  • commercial real estate ESG director with $4B portfolio oversight
    9.4
  • former FERC grid interconnection strategist and clean energy architect
    9.1
  • enterprise climate tech venture partner
    9.6
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