Ardosolar · wind, solar & storage for businesses · 2023 → todayA payback model that quotes itself, and a grid map that finds the next customer.
Ardosolar installs wind turbines, solar panels and batteries for businesses. We built the sales tool their reps use to produce a quote with a payback calculation on site, and GridIQ, which finds new business customers around the electricity grid.
- savings forecast in every quote
- 25 yr
- medium-voltage cabins mapped
- 21k
- public data sources per lead
- 5
- CRMs: Teamleader and Odoo
- 2
- Google Places
- VKBO
- CBE
- Orthophoto
- GRB land registry
How it works, from quote to new lead
One continuous recording of the real tool, the way a rep uses it. Nothing edited: the video doubles as an automated test that checks every step.
- 1
Quote with payback
Pick panels and inverter, fill in consumption and roof. The model shows the payback time and 25 years of savings right away, and builds the quote with the calculation as a PDF.
- 2
Converting meter data
Drop in a Fluvius export of quarter-hour values: the calculator recognises offtake and feed-in, fills in missing quarters and delivers the years as Excel.
- 3
Leads around a cabin
In GridIQ the rep opens a medium-voltage cabin and sees the companies around it, with contact details and activity, ready to send on as a deal.
Ons vertrouwen is volledig terecht gebleken.
Als oprichter van Ardosolar lieten wij Deritron onze bedrijfskritische software bouwen: een rekenplatform voor zonnepanelen en energieopslag, en een klantacquisitiesysteem op basis van publiek beschikbare data over middenspanningscabines.
Deritron nam onze technische complexiteit serieus, en vooral onze eisen rond security. In een sector waar een fout in de berekening direct gevolgen heeft voor de veiligheid van installaties, is dat geen detail maar een voorwaarde.
Ringo Deloof, CEO van Deritron, bewees met de titel ‘Slimste Cyberexpert’ van het land precies wat wij hadden ervaren: diepgang, geen marketingpraat, maar oplossingen.
Geleverd binnen termijn en binnen budget. Ons vertrouwen is volledig terecht gebleken. Wij bevelen Deritron met overtuiging aan.
Before
The payback model lived in an Excel file: roof orientation and pitch, shading, consumption and energy prices. Making a quote meant calculating in Excel and then typing everything again into Teamleader. Finding new business customers was manual work.
The configurator
A four-step wizard: pick panels, wind turbine and inverter, fill in the roof and consumption, add extras and enter the customer. Every change reruns the model and shows the payback time and cumulative savings in charts.
We ported the Excel model to code line by line. A table of irradiation factors per orientation and pitch, in 5-degree steps, is the base; on top come panel degradation, rising energy prices, own use versus feed-in, batteries and an inverter replacement in year 12. The result is a 25-year table.
Straight into Teamleader
On submit, the tool finds or creates the customer in Teamleader, opens a deal under the right department and builds the quote with grouped lines and that department's VAT rates. It then renders a PDF with 25 years of savings, merges it with Teamleader's own quote PDF and uploads the result back to the quote.
Partner companies work on the same platform with their own users, their own margin and their own Teamleader department. Anyone on Odoo sends their deals there instead.
GridIQ: finding customers through the grid
Flanders has about 21,000 customer-owned medium-voltage cabins. GridIQ lists them per town. For each cabin it looks up nearby businesses through Google Places and the Flemish company register, enriches them with data from the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (VAT number, activity, link to the annual accounts) and draws an aerial photo with the land registry and numbered markers.
A rep ticks the interesting ones, and they land in Teamleader or Odoo as deals, with a note linking back to the cabin.
After
Reps have built their quotes in the configurator since early 2024. GridIQ arrived in December 2025, and partner companies got access in January 2026.
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