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Proforma AI
The Financial Engine for Commercial Solar

Close Commercial Solar Deals
Faster with CFO-Ready Proformas.

The only financial modeling platform built specifically for Prepaid PPAs, Hybrid structures, and Notice 2025-08 Safe Harbor compliance. Stop fighting with spreadsheets and start closing.

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Est. System Cost $0.63M 250 kW · turnkey
25-Year Savings $1.97M Net of O&M
IRR 14.2% Unlevered
Time to Proforma <30s Address → PDF
Built for

Commercial & Industrial developers, EPCs, and syndicators managing multi-million dollar portfolios.

SolarProforma.ai is the purpose-built financial engine for the deals Excel can't model — Prepaid PPAs, Hybrid structures, Section 7701(e) waterfalls, Notice 2025-08 Safe Harbor.

Not for residential leases or single-home solar — those don't need a tax waterfall engine.

Live ROI Calculator

See the engine working — right now.

Drag the sliders. Every number recalculates against the same engine that produces the lender PDF.

Proforma .ai C&I Solar Intelligence
Est. System Cost$625K
25-Yr Savings$2.07M
IRR17.2%

Project assumptions

Drag to model your project. Engine recomputes the full waterfall on every change.

250 kW
50 kW2,000 kW
$0.180 / kWh
$0.08$0.40
40%
30%60%
ITC Stack Base ITC 30% + Energy Community 10% + Domestic Content 10%

Cash flow projection

Year-by-year, 25 years. Years 1–6 carry MACRS + ITC.

Live
Yr 1Yr 6Yr 13Yr 19Yr 25
MACRS + ITC (Yr 1–6) Operating cash (Yr 7–25)
Year-1 Net Savings$325K
Simple Payback4.9 yrs
NPV @ 7%$445K
Annual Production325 MWh
Unlock the Full Tax Waterfall Year 1 ITC, MACRS schedule, NPV breakdown.
Verified against the Vitek 126 kW benchmark — 19.39% IRR matches to four decimals.
Works With Your Stack

Don't change how you design.

Import your HelioScope or PVsyst production data in one click, and let SolarProforma.ai handle the complex finance.

One-click import · No file format wrangling · Production data flows straight into the 30-year cash flow engine

The Feature Pillars

Built for the deals Excel can't model.

Automated Tax Waterfalls

Section 7701(e) compliance doesn't have to be a nightmare. We automatically calculate Year 1 reductions, MACRS depreciation, and the 40% ITC shield.

  • 5-year MACRS schedule baked in
  • ITC stacking (Energy Community + Domestic Content)
  • Section 7701(e) auto-compliance

Domestic Content Engine

Don't overspend on American parts. Dynamically blend US-cell and imported modules to hit the 40% threshold at the lowest possible cost — and keep the 10% ITC adder.

  • Real-time threshold optimization
  • Mix-and-match BOM sourcing
  • Notice 2025-08 Safe Harbor compliant

4-Way Financial Matrix

CFOs need options. Compare Cash, Loan, Standard PPA, and Prepaid PPA side-by-side on a single screen — see the value of tax monetization at a glance.

  • Side-by-side IRR, NPV, payback
  • Hybrid + Prepaid PPA structures
  • One-click "winning scenario" highlight

Below — see the engine that powers all three.

Common Questions

Built for the questions a tax-equity partner will ask.

Does SolarProforma.ai track the TCJA Bonus Depreciation phase-out?

Yes. The model automatically adjusts the MACRS schedule based on the year of commercial operation date — including the TCJA bonus depreciation phase-out (40% in 2026, 20% in 2027, 0% from 2028 unless extended). Override the bonus % per project if your tax counsel reads the law differently.

How often are the Safe Harbor point values updated?

We actively monitor IRS guidance — including Notice 2025-08 Safe Harbor point values for Domestic Content. When the IRS publishes a revision, the point table ships in the next release with full changelog notes so your prior analyses stay reproducible. Your domestic-content modeling is always audit-ready.

Can I export the models to Excel for my tax-equity partners?

Yes. Every project exports as a fully unprotected, formula-driven .xlsx file — your tax-equity partner can trace every cell back to its assumption, edit the discount rate, swap the loan terms, whatever they need to do during diligence. No black box, no gated logic, no JSON-of-numbers dump.

How accurate is the IRR engine?

Every release is regression-tested against an industry benchmark to four decimal places — if the IRR moves by even 0.01%, the deploy fails. We use Newton-Raphson with a bisection fallback so the solver converges even on cash flows with multiple sign changes (which closed-form solvers silently mishandle).

Do you offer SSO, audit log, and API access?

On the Enterprise tier. SAML SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace), tenant-scoped audit log with Stripe-grade event detail, and a REST API for embedding the engine in your existing deal-desk tooling. Talk to sales and we'll scope it to your stack.

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