Solar deployment is accelerating
More projects, larger portfolios, tighter COD dates, and increasing BESS complexity are pushing EPC teams beyond spreadsheet-driven field execution.
AI Construction SaaS
MVP Complete
Solar EPC Focus
Pre-Seed
AI-powered field command for solar EPC construction.
Meridian Field Command helps solar EPC teams reduce schedule risk, automate quality documentation, and centralize field execution from NTP through closeout.
Built for the field. By the field. Designed by a solar EPC quality leader who lived the problem firsthand.
Meridian Command Center
18Modules
92%Docs indexed
14Risk flags
Build Planner AI
Schedule forecast, LD exposure, and production logic from contract inputs.
Engineering
60d
Foundations
45d
Racking
55d
Modules
40d
Commissioning
20d
Quality AI
Torque valuesMapped
EmbedmentsIndexed
ITP checksReady
CloseoutIQ
OCR packagesActive
Missing docsFlagged
TurnoverBuilt
18modules built and tested
$10K–$14Ktarget monthly project pricing
3GCs in active evaluation
$120Kpre-seed round size
ZERODirect Competitors
Why Now
Solar growth, schedule pressure, and AI maturity are converging now.
Utility-scale solar teams are being asked to build faster, document more, and absorb more execution risk while still relying on generic tools and manual workflows.
Generic construction tools leave gaps
Procore, P6, Excel, and email were not designed around solar milestones, tracker workflows, quality protocols, LD exposure, or closeout requirements.
AI is finally useful in the field
Document intelligence can now read specs, drawings, BOMs, photos, and closeout documents to automate the work project teams repeat every build.
The Problem
Disconnected tools are creating preventable risk for solar EPC teams.
The status quo is a patchwork of Excel schedules, email RFIs, manual inspection templates, disconnected photos, and closeout binders rebuilt from scratch.
Liquidated damages exposure
Missed COD dates can trigger $5K–$15K/day penalties, and manual schedules often miss cascading delays until it is too late.
hours per project schedule
PMs manually rebuild project plans in P6 or Excel, then manually update them after NTP shifts, procurement delays, and field production changes.
documentation chaos
Inspection templates, test records, torque requirements, embedments, and contract specs are cross-referenced by hand on every new project.
separate systems
RFIs, punch lists, photos, materials, closeout documents, and field reports live in different places with no solar-specific intelligence layer.
Real Field Stories
These Happened. This Is Why We Built It.
Three real stories from 15 years in the field. These aren't hypotheticals — they're the reason Meridian exists.
$750,000+ Lost Because Nobody Could Prove Who Got the Wire
On a 260 megawatt project in Ohio, we were managing a difficult electrical subcontractor who had further subcontracted the underground work. Material kept coming up short. We'd get a call: “You shorted us on cable again.” We had to dig through stacks of paperwork to figure out if we submitted the material request, if they received it, if they signed for it. There was no digital transfer log. No request workflow. No chain of custody. After weeks of back-and-forth, we discovered the sub had accidentally run the wrong cable specification across 17 different arrays — they had shorted themselves, not us. But because we couldn't prove chain of custody in real time, we absorbed over $500,000 in costs that were never our responsibility.
Actual Loss: $750,000+
Meridian fixThe Logistics Module tracks every material request and transfer with a timestamped digital record — who requested it, who approved it, what quantity, what date, which location. When a dispute happens, the answer is three clicks away, not three weeks of paperwork.
Dampers Spinning Into Glass Across Multiple Arrays — A Failure Nobody Documented
We were working with a tracker system and started seeing dampers spinning loose at the tube ends and going through glass panels across multiple arrays. The manufacturer had shipped incorrect damper hardware. But the entire investigation, the coordination, the parts ordering, and the repair sequence happened reactively from scratch — with no system capturing it as institutional knowledge. The lesson from that project disappeared when the project closed. The next site had no warning.
Impact: Multiple arrays, production loss, warranty dispute, reactive scramble
Meridian fixThe Proprietary Learning Loop captures real project data and lessons across every project your company runs. Known failure modes don't disappear when the project closes — they travel to the next one automatically.
Every Site Running Quality Differently — Excel Here, Smartsheet There, Paper Somewhere Else
When I came on board at my last employer, they were implementing a quality program across the entire company. What I found was that every site had built their own system from scratch. One tracked inspections in Excel. Another used Smartsheet. A third had paper binders. The inspection formats were different. The documentation standards were different. The job book structure was different. The standardization work that should have taken weeks took months — and by the time it was done, the next project was already doing it differently again.
Impact: Months of standardization work, inconsistent documentation, audit risk
Meridian fixThe Quality Module uses company-level inspection templates that every project team inherits automatically. Same template, same process, same job book structure — company-wide. Quality becomes genuinely repeatable for the first time.
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The Solution
One field command system — plus AI products that create expansion revenue.
Meridian centralizes field execution and adds AI where solar EPC teams lose the most time: schedule planning, inspections, photo analysis, and closeout.
Project Controls
Quality / QC
RFIs
Submittals
Punch Lists
Documents
Safety
Analytics
Product
18 modules built around the way solar projects actually run.
The platform is designed as the operating system for field execution — not a generic project management tool with solar labels added later.
Build Planner
Schedule logic, milestones, production planning, LD exposure, and project forecast tracking.
Daily Reports
Field progress, manpower, equipment, weather, blockers, and production notes in one system.
Quality / QC
Inspection templates, ITPs, torque verification, hold points, documentation, and quality records.
Punch List
Item tracking, ownership, closeout progress, photos, location reference, and completion status.
Contracts
Contract requirements, scope obligations, and project-specific conditions tied to field workflows.
RFIs & Submittals
Formal communication control without losing critical execution decisions in email chains.
Documents & Photos
Centralized project records, field photos, file structure, and AI-assisted search readiness.
Analytics
Dashboards for project health, quality trends, schedule risk, issue aging, and closeout readiness.
AI Ecosystem
AI tools that compound into a contractor-specific advantage.
Meridian’s standalone AI products also power premium tiers inside Field Command, creating upsell paths and a proprietary learning loop.
BuildIQ AI
Reads drawings, BOMs, and contract inputs to help generate schedules, cost forecasts, manpower needs, and LD exposure.
InspectionIQ AI
Reads specs and drawings to help pre-populate inspection templates with torque values, embedments, requirements, and hold points.
SiteIQ AI
Analyzes project photos and site conditions to support estimates, field visibility, and issue detection workflows.
CloseoutIQ AI
Uses OCR and document intelligence to organize closeout packages, flag missing records, and support turnover readiness.
Proprietary Learning Loop
By projects 3–5, Meridian starts learning how a contractor actually builds.
The system begins with industry benchmarks, then learns from each contractor’s real crew productivity, equipment efficiency, weather patterns, site conditions, and execution history — creating a personalized operating advantage that compounds over time.
Validation
Early customer conversations validate pricing and pilot pipeline.
Meridian is pre-revenue, but no longer just an idea. The MVP is built, demo-ready, and positioned for pilot deployment.
Current validation
- 3 GCs in active evaluation conversations
- Pricing validated at $10K–$14K/month per project range
- 18 modules built and tested
- Phase 2 development complete
- React + Supabase production stack
- Direct access to 50+ EPC contacts from founder’s solar network
Next 180 days
Q2 2026: First pilot customer onboarded, target one paying project at $10K/month.
Q3 2026: Expand pilot program, target $10K MRR from 1–2 projects.
Q4 2026: Build repeatable onboarding playbook and scale toward 5–10 customers.
$120K gets Meridian from MVP to pilot validation to repeatable revenue.
Market
Solar EPC represents a $4.2B+ TAM growing 23% annually.
Meridian’s wedge is utility-scale solar EPC, with expansion potential into BESS, infrastructure, and broader construction field operations.
Total Addressable Market
Construction management software opportunity across U.S. utility-scale solar, BESS, and adjacent infrastructure construction.
Market tailwinds: solar growth, BESS complexity, grid interconnection pressure, and documentation-heavy EPC contracts.
Serviceable Addressable Market
Solar EPC contractors managing 50MW+ projects with recurring software spend across active project portfolios.
1,200+ contractors × multiple concurrent projects × $10K–$14K/month project pricing.
Year 3 SOM Target
100 active projects at an average of $10K/month, representing a conservative capture path against the SAM.
A 1% SAM penetration path creates a meaningful early ARR base and validates expansion beyond the wedge.
The Land-and-Expand Math
A single GC running 3 concurrent projects at the full AI tier represents $30,000/month in recurring revenue from one account. A GC managing 5 simultaneous projects equals $600,000 ARR from a single customer relationship — before any expansion into adjacent modules or products.
Go To Market
Founder-led sales through a warm EPC network, scaling with investor and industry visibility.
The initial GTM motion is direct, focused, and grounded in founder-market fit: warm industry relationships, demos, pilots, success stories, and repeatable onboarding.
1
Founder-led pilots
Current–Q2 2026
Warm outreach to 50+ EPC contacts, LinkedIn engagement, industry groups, and demo scheduling with pilot candidates.
Target: first 3 pilots and $30K MRR potential.
2
Crowdfunding visibility
Q3–Q4 2026
OpenVC and Wefunder visibility drives investor awareness, customer discovery, referrals, webinars, and pilot case studies.
Target: 5–10 customers and $60K–$100K MRR potential.
3
Repeatable sales
2027+
Dedicated sales hire, trade show presence, EPC consultant partnerships, channel strategy, and repeatable demo-to-pilot process.
Target: $10K MRR/month growth rate.
$2Kearly founder-led CAC estimate
$360K+3-year LTV potential at $10K/month
180:1early network-driven LTV:CAC potential
30–45:1mature sales LTV:CAC target
Competition
Generic GC tools and Excel spreadsheets leave solar-specific execution gaps.
The biggest competitor is not one software platform — it is the status quo: Excel, email, manual inspections, scattered photos, and disconnected documents.
| Capability | Procore | Primavera P6 | Buildertrend | Excel + Email | Meridian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solar-specific workflows | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| AI schedule generation | No | No | No | No | BuildIQ |
| AI inspection template pre-fill | No | No | No | No | InspectionIQ |
| Integrated closeout automation | Partial | No | Partial | No | CloseoutIQ |
| Learning from project data | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Target customer | All GCs | All industries | Residential | Anyone | Solar EPC |
Status quo replacement
Meridian replaces the Excel + email + manual documentation stack solar teams rely on today.
Vertical specialization
Solar milestones, LD risk, AHJ coordination, inverter commissioning, tracker workflows, and QA/QC protocols are first-class workflows.
Compounding moat
By learning each contractor’s real production history, Meridian becomes harder to replace over time.
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Founder-Market Fit
Built by someone who has lived the solar EPC problem for 8 years.
“I was managing a 260 megawatt project using the same tools a strip mall contractor uses. Nobody was building the right tool. So I built it myself.”
— Chris Frye, Founder
Chris Frye is a solar EPC quality leader with more than a decade in construction and deep field experience across QA/QC, project documentation, contract requirements, inspections, punch list closeout, and field execution systems.
Solar EPC QA/QC
Field Operations
QMS Systems
React + Supabase
Founder / CEO
The Ask
Raising $120K to convert pilots and validate repeatable revenue.
This round is designed to move Meridian from complete MVP to pilot deployment, customer acquisition, and first revenue validation.
$120K
Pre-seed round
Post-money SAFE via Wefunder with a $4M valuation cap and $100 minimum investment.
Use of funds
$40K
Phase 3A Development
33%$30K
Customer Acquisition
25%$30K
Founder Runway
25%$20K
Infrastructure & Services
17%
Interactive Preview
See how Build Planner turns project inputs into a field-ready forecast.
This lightweight demo illustrates the type of schedule, cost, LD, and manpower logic Meridian can surface for solar EPC teams.
100MW Solar EPC — Schedule Overview
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FAQ
Questions We Hear Most.
Straight answers for investors, design partners, and EPC teams evaluating Meridian Field Command.
Is the platform actually built or is this still a concept?
Meridian Field Command is fully built. All 18 modules are live on a React and Supabase backend, verified and tested through Phase 2. This is not a mockup or a pitch deck promise — it's running software ready for design partners and pilot customers.
Who is this built for?
Utility-scale solar EPC contractors, general contractors managing solar construction, and subcontractors who need project-level field execution tools. If your team is managing a solar project from NTP through closeout, Meridian was built for your workflow.
How is Meridian different from Procore or Primavera P6?
Procore and P6 were built for general construction and large infrastructure — not solar. They don't understand tracker rows, inverter commissioning sequences, LD exposure tied to COD dates, or solar-specific closeout requirements. Meridian was designed from the ground up by a solar EPC quality manager who spent 15 years living the problems these tools couldn't solve.
What does the $10,000/month pricing include?
The full suite tier includes all 18 modules plus the BuildIQ and InspectionIQ AI premium tiers. Smaller teams can start with a basic tier or individual module add-ons and scale up. Early design partners receive preferred pricing during the pilot period.
What is a design partner and how do I become one?
Design partners are EPC teams who go live on Meridian during the pilot phase and provide feedback that shapes the product roadmap. Design partners receive preferred pricing, direct access to the founder, and influence over which features get built first. To apply, email chris@meridianfieldcommand.com.
What happens to my company's data inside the Learning Loop?
Your production data, crew rates, and historical project information belong to your company and are never shared with other users or competitors. The Learning Loop builds a private intelligence layer specific to your organization — that's what makes it a competitive advantage rather than a shared benchmark.
I'm an investor. What is the structure of this raise?
Meridian is raising $120,000 through a Regulation CF community round on Wefunder, structured as a Post-Money SAFE with a $4 million valuation cap. The minimum investment is $100. Funds will be used for Phase 3A platform development, customer acquisition, and founder runway through first revenue.
What is the exit strategy?
The primary exit path is acquisition. The Build Planner's Dynamic Adjustment Engine and Proprietary Learning Loop represent technology that major construction software platforms — Procore, Oracle, Trimble — do not have and cannot easily replicate. The target acquisition range is $50M+, driven by the value of the AI layer and the contractor-specific data that builds over time.
Why solar EPC specifically?
Because nobody else has built for it. Solar EPC sits at the intersection of construction complexity, AI readiness, and a massive underserved market. The founder has 15 years in the industry, deep relationships across the contractor landscape, and firsthand knowledge of exactly where the pain is. The specificity is the strategy — own solar EPC completely before expanding into adjacent verticals.
When will Meridian be available?
The platform is available now for design partners. Pilot onboarding begins immediately following this raise. If you're an EPC team interested in being among the first to go live, reach out directly at chris@meridianfieldcommand.com.
Meridian Field Command
Let’s build the future of solar construction.
Investor, pilot customer, or design partner — if you are building the next generation of solar infrastructure, Meridian was built for the work you do every day.