Scoop Solar

10/08/2026

Is your team still manually overseeing closeout?

This may look familiar: Your inspection passed. The result is already in your system. But on many renewable energy projects, someone still has to notice the status change and start moving the work forward.

That means:

Assigning the closeout tasks.
Notifying the right team.
Collecting the final documentation.
Updating the customer.
Making sure nothing gets missed.

None of these steps require someone to decide what happens next when the process is already known.

That makes inspection approval more than a project status. It’s a trigger to automatically kick off the right tasks, communications, and handoffs to move the project toward completion.

Your team can still step in when something needs judgment or doesn't go according to plan, but the routine path shouldn't depend on someone remembering to start it.

If the system knows the milestone happened, it should know what to do next.

See how Scoop can help automate next steps as your projects progress. Link in our comments.

10/01/2026

Your team has plenty of information. Does your team know what to do with it?

Your CRM knows who the customer is. Your ERP knows the financials. Your project management tools know the project status. Your field apps know what happened on site.

The big question is: what happens next?

A permit gets approved. A field crew submits their photos. An inspection passes.

The information is already there, but someone still has to notice it and move the work forward.

Instead of adding another place to store data, renewable energy teams need an operational layer that can turn existing data into the next task, approval, communication, or workflow.

Your systems already know what happened. Your operations should know what happens next.

That’s what Scoop’s Central Operations Hub can do for your team.

09/22/2026

Adding new service lines introduce different requirements, approvals, handoffs, and opportunities for work to get missed.

Leading EPC, Captain Power, manages residential solar, commercial projects, and O&M. Each line of business has its own process, but the teams, project information, and operational visibility stay connected through a single system.

Join us live this Thursday with Benjamin Lessig, VP of Operations at Captain Power, to discuss how Captain Power has managed this expansion.

You will hear:
➡️ What can stay consistent across project and service types
➡️ Where commercial work requires different workflows and controls
➡️ How required steps, checklists, and automations keep teams and partners aligned
➡️ How to grow without creating another operational silo

Whether you are considering commercial, already managing it, or expanding into additional services, you will get a practical operator’s perspective on the systems behind the work.

Thursday, September 24 at 11 a.m. ET

Registration is closing soon. Save your seat here:

Join Scoop for a fireside chat with Ben Lessig, VP of Operations at Captain Power, on what residential solar installers should know before going commercial.

09/17/2026

When crews arrive on site, they shouldn't have to interpret what the office needs, remember which photos are required, or figure out what information needs to come back before the project can move forward.

This is where gaps start showing:
→ A required photo is missing.
→ A field gets skipped.
→ Documentation comes back incomplete.
→ Someone in the office has to chase down the crew or reconcile the information after the fact.

The better approach is to build requirements into the field workflow itself.
→ Show crews the right steps for the work they're completing.
→ Make required information clear at the point of work.
→ Validate critical fields and documentation before submission.
→ Trigger the next review or handoff once field work is complete.

Standardizing field inputs will help your teams catch missing data sooner, so you can keep projects moving more effectively. While the crew is still on site.

Learn how Scoop can help your team standardize field inputs. Get in touch with us through the link in the comments.

09/10/2026

Has your company added a new service line recently?

Maybe you've added storage, started offering maintenance, expanded your field services, or taken on a different type of project.

There's a lot of pressure to get that new work running quickly, especially during busy season.

That's often when separate processes start popping up.

A new spreadsheet here. A different workflow there. Another group managing its own information. Eventually, the new service line can start operating like a separate business.

As you expand, it's worth asking how the new work will connect with the rest of your operation.

→ Can customer and project data carry through?
→ Can the same teams see work across service lines?
→ Which steps actually require a different workflow?
→ Can handoffs and next actions be automated across both?
→ Can leadership report across the entire operation?

Different types of work may need different workflows. They shouldn't need disconnected operations.

09/04/2026

For residential installers, moving into commercial work feels like the natural next step.

But larger projects do not simply mean larger versions of the same work.
On September 24, we are sitting down with Benjamin Lessig, VP of Operations at Captain Power, for an honest conversation about what changes when a residential installer moves into commercial solar.

We will cover:
👉 The questions leaders should answer before committing
👉 Where residential workflows stop translating cleanly
👉 The checkpoints commercial projects need
👉 What Captain Power kept, changed, and learned while building their commercial processes

Benjamin will share what making the shift from residential to commercial actually looks like, including the hard parts teams should understand before they pursue the opportunity.

September 24 at 11:00 ET · 45 minutes

Register here:

Join Scoop for a fireside chat with Ben Lessig, VP of Operations at Captain Power, on what residential solar installers should know before going commercial.

08/27/2026

Your most experienced project managers shouldn’t be spending their day pushing routine work forward. But as project volume grows, that’s often where their time goes.

- Checking whether documents came in.
- Following up on approvals.
- Assigning the next task.
- Confirming requirements were met.
- Reminding someone about the next handoff.

Across dozens or hundreds of active projects, these tasks take time away from the work that actually needs your team’s expertise.

Teams that automate the predictable parts of project movement give project managers space to focus on solving problems, managing risk, supporting customers, and making decisions that actually require their judgment.

Your best people should manage the project, not administer the workflow.

08/20/2026

Your best operator shouldn’t be your system of record.

Across renewable energy operations, a surprising amount of project knowledge still lives with individual people.

They remember when to follow up on a permit, which requirements apply to a project, whether a survey was reviewed, and who needs to take the next step.

That works until project volume outgrows what people can reasonably keep track of.

In a recent webinar, the Scoop team walked through 10 common workflow breakdowns from site survey through closeout and showed how Scoop automations can move that remembering into the system.

➡️ Reviews can trigger tasks.
➡️ Project conditions can surface the right requirements.
➡️ Change orders can launch their own workflows.
➡️ Completed field work can generate reports automatically.

The goal is to automate the routine coordination around the work, so your best people can spend more time applying their judgment where it actually matters.

Move the remembering into the system. Keep the thinking with your team.
If you missed the webinar, check out the recording here:

In this live webinar, the Scoop team will walk through how you can create custom workflows and automations that streamline project management and operations.

07/30/2026

Do you notice these things in your operations?

Work slows down because a site survey is missing photos. Or a design revision wasn’t properly documented. Or a review sits in someone’s inbox for too long.

Across hundreds of projects, they become hours of manual coordination, delayed milestones, and unnecessary operational overhead.

Most operational slowdowns aren't caused by major issues. They're caused by the same handful of workflow breakdowns happening over and over again.

In our upcoming webinar, we'll walk through 10 common workflow breakdowns we see across renewable energy operations, and the workflows and automations Scoop customers use to solve them.

If you're looking for ways to reduce manual coordination, standardize ex*****on, and keep projects moving with less effort, this session is for you.

📅 Thursday, August 13
🕒 10 am PT / 1 pm ET
Register here: https://hubs.ly/Q04rjNCN0

07/23/2026

Ever notice how most project management tools are great at telling you what has happened, but not necessarily what needs to happen next?

They track the customer, the contract, the schedule, and the project details.
But moving a project forward often still depends on someone manually checking requirements, and making sure handoffs actually happen.

When you're managing dozens of projects, those small coordination tasks can take up a surprising amount of your team's day.

The renewable teams that scale well aren't trying to automate every decision. They're automating the routine movement of work.

That gives operations teams more time to focus on the work that really needs their expertise; solving problems, supporting customers, and keeping projects on track.

What part of your project workflow do you think could benefit most from automation?

To learn how Scoop can help automate your projects, get in touch with our team through the link in the comments.