easy-material.ai
AUTOMATIC MATERIAL COMPUTATION
For UK solar, battery and heat pump installers

Type your address.
See every prospect around you.

Put your yard at the centre of a service radius and get the housing stock that is genuinely sellable — owner-occupied, not a flat, roof actually suitable, no panels already on it. Then the package to pitch and the material list to order, costed to the last cable clip.

7 standard packages
49 line items costed
121 UK postcode areas
0% VAT on domestic ESM

Free tier includes 10 catchment reports and 25 quotes a month. No card required.

YOUR SERVICE RADIUS

How it works

From a postcode to a purchase order in three moves

No data to prepare, no spreadsheet to maintain. Everything below runs from one address field.

01

Set your radius

Enter your yard or company postcode, pick a service radius between 5 and 80 km, and set the market share you realistically win.

02

Read the catchment

Housing stock passes four filters — tenure, dwelling type, roof suitability, existing PV — leaving the homes you can actually sell to, split by segment and ranked by postcode sector.

03

Order against it

Each segment maps to a package. Three main items and 46 ancillaries are costed automatically, standard installation included, and you order online.

What you get

Built around how install work is actually won

A funnel you can audit

Every step shows its coefficient and its source. Tenure from the English Housing Survey, roof suitability from BRE and MCS assessments, existing PV from the MCS installations database. Nothing is a black box.

Market size and your share, kept apart

The catchment figure is the whole market. Your pipeline is that figure times the share you set. We never present one as the other, because that is how installers end up planning for revenue that was never theirs.

Segments that map to packages

Detached, semi-detached and terraced each get the package range their roof can carry. Off-gas homes and EPC-below-C homes are flagged separately as heat pump and retrofit openings.

Material lists that match the van

Rails, clamps, cable and bird mesh scale with panel count. Inverter and battery costs interpolate across verified cost points. Fixed ancillaries come from the nearest reference package.

A margin gate that holds

Equipment gross margin below 50% will not save as a quote. The rule is enforced in the pricing engine, not left to whoever is filling in the form.

Priority sectors, not just a total

The report ranks postcode sectors inside your radius by addressable homes, so a canvassing round or a leaflet drop has somewhere to start.

Catalogue

Standard packages, all-in pricing

G98-5
£6,464
8 panels · 3.84 kW
5 kWh storage
G98-10
£7,228
8 panels · 3.84 kW
10 kWh storage
STD-12
£8,129
12 panels · 5.76 kW
10 kWh storage
OC-1
£8,146
12 panels · 5.76 kW
10 kWh storage
OC-2
£11,369
16 panels · 7.68 kW
15.36 kWh storage
OC-3
£14,249
20 panels · 9.6 kW
20.48 kWh storage
OC-4
£16,176
24 panels · 11.52 kW
25.6 kWh storage

Published totals already include £2,500 for standard installation with one scaffold side. Flat roof, flat-roof survey and flat-roof mounting are excluded. Non-standard configurations are priced live from the material list.

Pricing

Start free. Pay when it earns you work.

Each tool is bought and billed on its own. Run one of them, or run all three on a single login.

Starter

Free
  • 10 catchment reports a month
  • 25 quotes a month
  • All 7 standard packages
  • Online ordering

Pro

£99.99 / month
  • 200 catchment reports a month
  • 500 quotes a month
  • Live pricing for custom builds
  • Order fulfilment tracking
  • Material list export

Advanced

£199.99 / month from
  • Unlimited reports and quotes
  • Postcode-sector measured data
  • Connects to proposal and CRM
  • Custom SOP and API work
FAQ

Questions installers actually ask

How is the prospect count worked out? Can I trust it?

Housing stock in the radius is multiplied by owner-occupancy (tenants cannot authorise a roof), then flats are removed (no independent roof title), then roof suitability for orientation, shading and structure, then homes with panels already fitted are subtracted. Every coefficient and its source is printed in the report.

Each figure carries a data tier: measured from open data, modelled from measured values via published coefficients, estimated where regional data is missing. We never dress an estimate up as a measurement — the badge is on screen next to the number.

Is the pipeline figure money I will actually take?

Only the half labelled as yours. The report shows the annual opportunity for the whole catchment and, separately, your share of it based on the market share you set. Presenting the first as the second is the fastest way to plan a business around revenue that belongs to your competitors.

Where does the material list come from?

A real purchasing workbook: 3 main items and 46 ancillaries, 49 lines in total. Inverter and battery costs interpolate between verified cost points. Rails, clamps, cable and bird mesh scale linearly with panel count; the rest take fixed quantities from the nearest reference package. Every line shows the rule that produced it.

What data is loaded today?

Postcode-area centroids for 121 UK areas, which are real coordinates, plus dwelling counts banded by settlement size, which are an estimated tier and only indicate order of magnitude. Loading the ONS Postcode Directory and census sector statistics upgrades the whole system to measured with no code change.

I already use your design or CRM tool

Sign in with the same account — all three share one identity. A roof drawn in easy-proposal flows here to be costed, and the finished material list flows back into your CRM. Running only this one is equally fine: one tool, one server, one bill.

One group

Three tools, one login

Each runs on its own server and can be bought separately. Share an account and your data flows between them: a roof drawn in proposal becomes a material list here, and lands back in your CRM.