The Market Shift
The Future Homes Standard changes everything
From 2025, every new home in England needs solar PV as standard. The market for residential
solar installations is set to double. For Eco2Solar, that means more installations, more
photos, more evidence, and more desk audits than the current process can handle.
At current volumes, your teams generate between 29,000 and 40,000 quality evidence photos
every month. Each one needs to be reviewed. Under FHS volumes, that number grows
significantly, and the gap between "photos taken on site" and "photos reviewed at the desk"
widens every month without a structured solution.
40,000
Photos per month (current peak)
2,000
1st Fix visits per month
1,800
2nd Fix visits per month
700+
Active sites nationally
The Problem Today
What happens now
Photos are captured on a general-purpose app, emailed to shared folders, and reviewed
manually. There is no structured tagging, no automated status tracking, and no way to
quickly audit whether an installation meets quality standards without opening every file
individually.
This process was adequate at lower volumes. It is not adequate at the volumes the
Future Homes Standard will bring.
What needs to change
Every photo needs to be categorised, tagged to a specific plot and visit, reviewed
against quality criteria, and securely stored. Site teams need offline capability.
Managers need real-time status dashboards. Housebuilder clients need branded reports
on demand.
A general-purpose construction management platform would cover part of this workflow
and force your teams to work around the gaps. PVView is built to cover the whole
workflow, because it is built around your process, not someone else's.
The organisations that invest in structured quality systems now will be best placed
as FHS volumes ramp. Those that wait will be scaling manually into a doubled workload.
Choose Your Service Level
After go-live, your annual service plan covers hosting, monitoring, security, support,
and platform maintenance. Choose the level that matches your operational needs.
Upgrade or downgrade at any annual renewal.
Essential
£170k
per year (£42,500 / quarter)
- ✓ Platform hosting and infrastructure
- ✓ Security patches and updates
- ✓ Critical bug fixes
- ✓ 99.0% uptime (business hours)
- ✓ 24 business hours response (critical issues)
- ✗ Development capacity
- ✗ Quarterly roadmap reviews
- ✗ AI model monitoring
- ✗ Feature roadmap delivery
Recommended
Professional
£350k
per year (£87,500 / quarter)
- ✓ Platform hosting and infrastructure
- ✓ Security patches and updates
- ✓ Critical bug fixes
- ✓ 99.5% uptime (business hours)
- ✓ 4 business hours response (critical issues)
- ✓ Dedicated development capacity
- ✓ Quarterly roadmap reviews
- ✓ AI model monitoring
- ✗ Feature roadmap delivery
Enterprise
£435k
per year (£108,750 / quarter)
- ✓ Platform hosting and infrastructure
- ✓ Security patches and updates
- ✓ Critical bug fixes
- ✓ 99.9% uptime (business hours)
- ✓ 1 business hour response (critical issues)
- ✓ Dedicated development capacity
- ✓ Quarterly roadmap reviews
- ✓ AI model monitoring
- ✓ Feature roadmap delivery
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature |
Essential |
Professional |
Enterprise |
| Annual Fee |
£170,000 |
£350,000 |
£435,000 |
| Quarterly Fee |
£42,500 |
£87,500 |
£108,750 |
| Uptime SLA (business hours) |
99.0% |
99.5% |
99.9% |
| Max Downtime / Year (business hours) |
~25 hours |
~12.5 hours |
~2.5 hours |
| Critical Response Time (business hours) |
24 business hours |
4 business hours |
1 business hour |
| Security Patches |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Critical Bug Fixes |
✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Dedicated Development Capacity |
✗ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Quarterly Roadmap Reviews |
✗ |
✓ |
✓ |
| AI Model Monitoring (from Stage 2) |
✗ |
✓ |
✓ |
| Feature Roadmap Delivery |
✗ |
✗ |
✓ |
| Near-Dedicated Resources |
✗ |
✗ |
✓ |
Business hours: 08:00–18:00 Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays (~2,520 hours per year). Uptime and response time commitments apply during this window. Outside business hours, the platform remains available on a best-effort basis.
Why we recommend Professional
Professional gives you dedicated development capacity to evolve the platform as your needs
grow, quarterly reviews to keep the roadmap aligned with your business, and a 4-hour critical
response time that keeps your field teams operational. Essential keeps the lights on but does
not evolve the platform. Enterprise is for organisations that need near-dedicated resources
and the tightest possible SLAs.
3-Year Cost of Ownership
Total investment over three years by service plan
The totals above assume a steady service level across all three years. In practice, as the platform stabilises, there is typically scope to revisit Year 2 and Year 3 investment during the quarterly roadmap process, keeping spend aligned with actual needs.
Cost Per Plot
What PVView costs per installation
£20.89
Cost per plot at current volumes (~21,000/yr)
£16.25
Cost per plot at FHS volumes (~30,000/yr)
£25+
AES platform benchmark (existing products)
PVView delivers more per plot than AES's existing platform products: AI-supported review,
structured photo management, offline capability, branded reports, and housebuilder client
access. And the cost per plot falls as volume grows. At FHS-projected volumes, you are paying
£16.25 per installation for a purpose-built quality evidence platform with business-hours SLA coverage.
Exclusivity
As the first organisation to commission PVView, you receive 12 months of platform exclusivity as standard.
Extend it in 6-month blocks. Each additional block costs less than the one before, rewarding longer commitment.
Prices shown per 6-month block. Cumulative totals in brackets show what you pay to reach that exclusivity length.
12 Months
Included
Comes as standard with the build. No additional cost.
18 Months
+ £25,000
Add the first 6-month block.
Total to reach: £25,000
24 Months
+ £20,000
Add the second 6-month block.
Total to reach: £45,000
30 Months
+ £15,000
Add the third 6-month block.
Total to reach: £60,000
How it works:
Decisions on extending exclusivity can be made at any point before the current period ends.
You are never locked in beyond what you have chosen. The decreasing per-block price reflects the increasing commercial value of a longer partnership to both parties.
The AI Roadmap
PVView is designed for AI from day one
The platform architecture separates photo capture, storage, and review into clean layers
specifically so AI-powered automation can be introduced without rebuilding the system.
When the platform reaches critical data volume, AI takes over the routine review work,
and your team focuses on the exceptions.
Stage 1: Included
Platform Build and AI Proof of Concept
The core platform: structured photo management, desk audit workflow, booking, reporting,
and all nine features in "The Solution". The data architecture is AI-ready from the start.
During Stage 1, a focused AI Proof of Concept runs alongside the build to define the scope:
which photo types can be auto-reviewed, what confidence thresholds are acceptable, and what
the cost model looks like. The PoC delivers hard numbers, not estimates.
Stage 2: Scoped After Discovery
AI-Powered Review
Automated photo review using trained models specific to PVView's photo categories.
The system flags issues for human review rather than requiring manual inspection of every
image. The AI learns from your reviewers' decisions and improves over time. Full scope
and pricing confirmed once the Stage 1 PoC delivers its findings.
Why Discovery First
AI costs depend on the specific photos being reviewed, the number of categories, the
acceptable error rate, and the volume of training data. None of these can be accurately
priced until the PoC delivers results against real PVView data. Discovery is the gate
that turns estimates into commitments.
Confidence From Experience
AES has existing AI integration experience (at PoC stage) from a comparable platform
serving two top-10 UK housebuilders. The technology, the integration patterns, and the
cost structures are well understood. If PVView's requirements stay close to that model,
costs are controlled and predictable.
The AI Proof of Concept is included in Stage 1. You will know the full AI cost model
before committing to Stage 2, with a clear path from discovery to deployment.
