AI Automation for Solar installers in Perth

For most solar installation businesss, the same handful of jobs eat the week - qualifying leads, building proposals, chasing signed contracts, collating STC and compliance paperwork, and post-install follow-up. Here is where Perth solar installers lose the most time and money:

1. Comparison-site and Google leads go cold because the design and proposal take days to turn around.

2. STC assignment paperwork, panel and inverter serials and grid-connection forms are collated by hand after every install.

3. Customers go quiet between deposit and install date and no one is nudging them through finance or meter approval.

4. Post-install monitoring alerts and warranty claims get missed because nobody owns the inbox.

None of these are your actual trade or service. They are the repetitive admin wrapped around it - which is exactly the work that can be automated and owned in-house.

These are real flows we build with solar installers - mapped to your workflows on the tools you already run (OpenSolar, simPRO, ServiceM8, Tradify), not generic templates:

Lead qualify and route. A new enquiry is scored on roof type, postcode and retailer, then routed to the right installer with a same-day proposal link.

Proposal follow-up. An unsigned OpenSolar proposal triggers a timed sequence of reminders and a finance prompt until it is accepted or declined.

STC pack assembly. An accepted job pulls panel and inverter serials, install photos and the customer declaration into one STC-ready compliance pack.

Grid-connection tracker. Pre-approval, meter and embedded-generation paperwork are tracked per job and prompted before they stall the install date.

Monitoring and warranty watch. A drop in system output from the inverter portal raises a flagged warranty task instead of waiting for the customer to complain.

We start with whichever of these is costing you the most right now, so you see something working early rather than at the end.

Over six to twelve weeks, shaped around your business and your heroes. Done with you, not to you.

Map and diagnose. We sit with your team and map your real workflows, then pick the automations with the best payback.

Build along, together. Weekly working sessions where your people - your office admin or sales coordinator who already owns the proposal pipeline is the typical hero - build real automations on your own tools, with us beside them.

We build the hard parts. The genuinely tricky, integration-heavy or compliance-sensitive flows we build with your team so they learn by seeing it done.

Independence and handover. Your heroes run solo. We leave a documented playbook and an optional low-touch get-unstuck line. No retainer required.

Most Perth solar installers have two options today: pay an agency a retainer that never ends, or try it themselves and watch the pilot quietly die because nobody owns it.

buildAutomation is the third way. One investment that ends, not a cost that never does. Your people make changes instantly instead of raising a ticket. The capability stays and compounds in-house instead of walking out the door with a contractor. And you finish with live automations running your business, not a slide deck of ideas.

See exactly how buildAutomation works.

A Perth business running on a two-hour time gap from the eastern states loses real money every time an enquiry sits unanswered overnight, so owning your own automation for after-hours quote responses and follow-ups pays off faster here than almost anywhere. From Osborne Park professional services to Malaga trades and Canning Vale logistics yards, the win is keeping the system in-house once your own admin hero can run it, rather than renting it from an agency on the other side of the country. Perth's economy leans heavily on mining services and the trades that feed it, with industrial estates like Welshpool, Malaga and Wangara packed with SMEs supplying FIFO and resources clients on tight turnaround.

We run buildAutomation with solar installers right across Perth - including Perth CBD, Joondalup, Osborne Park, Fremantle, Malaga, Canning Vale - in person where it helps and remotely where it does not. 13Labs is a Melbourne software studio, and the program is the same wherever in Western Australia you are: train your team, build the hard automations together, and leave the capability behind so you own it.