Turning survey notes into a first-draft quote
Reads the surveyor's notes, photos and the output from your design or heat loss software, and builds the quote in your template with the options, the grant line and the add-ons.
This page lists the office work in a UK energy business that Claude can take on, by function and by the kind of business, starting with quoting and winning work. It is written for the owners, managing directors and operations directors of installers, brokers and consultancies, renewable developers and energy suppliers. The surveys, the advice, the deals and the decisions stay with your people. Claude takes the reading, drafting, checking and chasing around them, and helps you build internal tools you would otherwise buy.
An installer surveys a home or a roof, quotes, and then carries the grant, network operator and MCS paperwork for every job. A broker or consultancy collects bills and letters of authority, tenders to suppliers and keeps clients through renewals. A renewable developer wins land, a grid position, planning consent and investment, each with a pack of documents. A supplier prices for brokers and customers, bills accurately and answers to Ofgem. Pick the one closest to yours and the rest of the page follows it, from where the time goes to the twelve month picture.
These are the tasks that come round every week in an installer's office, grouped by the kind of work they are.
These are the tasks that come round every week in a broker or energy consultancy, grouped by the kind of work they are.
These are the tasks that come round every week in a renewable developer, grouped by the kind of work they are.
These are the tasks that come round every week in an energy supplier, grouped by the kind of work they are.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why customers choose you and come back. The work in the right column has grown up around it, and in most energy businesses it takes more of the week than anyone has measured.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why customers choose you and come back. The work in the right column has grown up around it, and in most energy businesses it takes more of the week than anyone has measured.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why customers choose you and come back. The work in the right column has grown up around it, and in most energy businesses it takes more of the week than anyone has measured.
This is the point of the whole page. The work in the left column is why customers choose you and come back. The work in the right column has grown up around it, and in most energy businesses it takes more of the week than anyone has measured.
The use case for AI is taking away the time that gets spent on the work sitting around the job, and freeing your people up to do the work only a human can do. The work that grows the business, and the work they enjoy the most.
The times are our own estimates for a typical task in a UK energy business. Nobody has published measured times for most of this work, so where a source gives a figure we say who published it. Every use case assumes a business plan whose terms keep your content out of model training, and your customers' data stays subject to your contracts with them. Nothing goes to a customer, a regulator or a network operator until a person has checked it. The highlighted use cases either take the most hours or make the biggest difference to the business.
The people pricing the work, often the owner.
Reads the surveyor's notes, photos and the output from your design or heat loss software, and builds the quote in your template with the options, the grant line and the add-ons.
Reads the finished quote against the design and your rules, and lists every figure that does not agree with another one in the same document.
Compares the original estimate with the design after the survey, reprices the changes and drafts a letter explaining each one in plain terms.
Writes a covering letter that explains what the system does, what it should cost to run, what could change after a survey and how the grant works, in words the customer will follow.
Reads a web, phone or directory enquiry, pulls out the address, the heating, the roof and what the customer wants, and lists what to ask before a surveyor drives out.
Keeps the list of quotes sent, drafts a follow-up at the interval you set, and records the reason when a customer says no.
Takes the solar design export and the heat pump design report from two different tools and writes one proposal the customer can read, with one price and one set of figures.
Writes the business case a finance director or board will read, with payback, funding options, the grid application timing and staged payments set out.
Turns the client's site list, consumption and contract details into the pricing request each supplier wants, in each supplier's own format.
Reads the prices suppliers send back by email or portal, puts them on one basis and pulls the conditions out of the small print.
Writes the client-facing report from the comparison, with the options, the benefits and risks of each and the recommendation, before the prices move.
Writes a plain explanation of fixed and flexible purchasing for this client's size and appetite for risk, using their own consumption and budget.
Turns the GIS output, constraints, grid headroom notes and planning history for a site into the written appraisal your investment committee reads.
Drafts the first letter to each landowner on the title, explaining who you are, what you are proposing and what happens next, in a tone a farmer will read to the end.
Drafts heads of terms for a site from your standard term sheet and the points agreed so far, and lists every term still open.
Writes up each call, visit or email with a landowner or their agent onto the site record, with what was said, what was promised and the next step.
Reads your option agreements and leases and keeps one diary of option periods, extension dates, longstops, rent reviews and notice deadlines across every site.
Takes the price from your pricing team's model and writes the quote a broker or customer receives, with the fee lines and conditions your rules require.
Checks a contract submitted by a broker against your rules before anyone keys it, so the paperwork is right the first time.
Compares the new price book with the last one and drafts the note to your broker partners on what has moved and why.
Reads a broker's query about a price, a site or a contract and drafts the answer from the price book, the account and your rules.
Keeps one record of every title the cable route crosses, with the owner, the rights agreed, the terms still open and the next step for each.
The owner or a bid writer, answering questionnaires to a deadline.
Reads the invitation to tender and pulls out every deadline, clarification date, mandatory requirement, evaluation weighting and format rule.
Answers the standard sections, such as insurance, health and safety, accreditations, quality and social value, from your past answers and policies, and lists what needs writing fresh.
Checks the framework's requirements, such as MCS, TrustMark, PAS 2030 and PAS 2035, against your certificates and case studies, and lists anything missing or out of date.
Writes the invitation to tender and pre-qualification questions a larger client sends to suppliers, from the client's sites, data and requirements.
Drafts the written answers to a large customer's tender from your standard responses, product details and policies, around the price your pricing team sets.
Collects the scores and feedback from tenders won and lost, and lists the patterns in where you score low.
The grid manager, keeping every offer, deadline and security in order.
Reads a new or revised connection offer against the previous one and lists every change to the date, point of connection, costs, securities, milestones and curtailment terms.
Checks each option or lease, red line plan and acreage figure against the grid readiness criteria, and lists what does not meet them.
Keeps one register across every project of grid applications, offers, acceptance deadlines, securities, queue milestones and the next action, from the offers and the emails.
Writes up a meeting with the network operator's project manager into notes, decisions and actions, and updates the register.
The planning manager, coordinating consultants and the community.
Reads every report in the application, such as the planning statement, landscape, ecology, flood, heritage and glint and glare, and lists every place they disagree.
Reads every feedback form, email and letter from the consultation, codes each to a theme, keeps the counts and drafts the response table for the statement of community involvement.
Reads comments from statutory consultees and the planning officer's requests, and keeps a tracker of each point, who answers it and by when.
Reads the decision notice and lists every condition with what it requires, the trigger for each and the documents needed to discharge it.
Drafts the pre-application request for the planning authority from the site appraisal, the layout and the surveys done so far.
Reads the officer's report and the objections on the portal, and drafts a briefing with the points members are likely to raise and your answer to each.
The managing director and finance, raising money or selling projects.
Drafts the information memorandum for a project sale or funding round from your project's own documents, with each fact tied to its source.
Reads the documents in your data room, builds the index buyers expect and lists what is missing, out of date or inconsistent.
Drafts answers to buyer or lender due diligence questions from the data room, with the document and clause behind each answer.
Checks a subsidy, auction or support scheme application against the eligibility rules and the evidence asked for, before it is submitted.
Writes the short teaser that goes to possible buyers or investors before they sign a confidentiality agreement, from the project's facts.
The asset manager, reporting on the sites you keep and run.
Pulls the month's generation, availability, faults and revenue from monitoring and accounts exports into your investor report, and drafts the commentary.
Checks the O&M contractor's invoice and the power purchase statement against the contracts, the availability figures and the metered generation.
Lists open fault tickets against the contractor's response times and drafts the chase for each one that is late.
Gathers the fault records, monitoring data, contracts and correspondence for a warranty or insurance claim and drafts the claim letter.
Client services, getting the authority and the data a tender needs.
Drafts the letter of authority on the client's details with the exact registered name, number, address, signatory and meters, so suppliers accept it first time.
Reads the client's bills, whether PDFs, photos or portal downloads, and builds the site and meter list a tender needs.
Lists every letter of authority coming up to its expiry and drafts the renewal for each client.
Client services, getting contracts live without rejections.
Checks the contract, principal terms and supporting documents against the quote the client accepted before anything goes to the supplier.
Works out each current supplier's termination window from the contract, drafts the notice and diarises the chase for confirmation.
Reads the objection reason from the current supplier and drafts what the client needs to do, such as clearing a balance or proving a direct debit is in place.
Prepares the change of tenancy paperwork for a client moving in or out of a site, with the evidence suppliers ask for and the readings needed.
Analysts, checking bills and showing clients what was found.
Writes the query to the supplier for a bill your validation flagged, with the contracted rate, the billed rate and the readings, so it cannot be bounced back.
Turns the month's validation results into a short note the client will read, with what was wrong, what was recovered and what is still open.
Builds the client's energy budget from consumption, contracted rates, expected non-commodity charges and planned site changes.
Energy and carbon consultants, collecting data and writing reports.
Builds the data request for a client's ESOS or SECR work from their sites and fuels, sends it and keeps track of what has come back.
Drafts the energy and carbon section of the directors' report from the figures your carbon tool produces, with the methodology and the efficiency actions.
Drafts the progress update against the client's ESOS action plan from the measures they have carried out and the savings recorded.
Drafts the carbon reduction plan a client needs for a public sector bid from their emissions data and commitments.
The project co-ordinator, entering the same job into several portals.
Reads the job record and design before anyone logs in, and lists what the network operator form, the BUS application and the MCS certificate will need that is missing.
Keeps one record per job of the BUS voucher, network operator reference, MCS certificate, building regulations notification and guarantee, with the dates each one expires or falls due.
Works out from the design whether the job needs a G98 notification or a G99 application, and prepares the details and drawings the form asks for.
Prepares the details for a Boiler Upgrade Scheme application from the quote and survey, and drafts the email that tells the owner what Ofgem will ask them to confirm.
Writes to the customer with the MCS certificate, the network operator confirmation and the steps for their export tariff application, in one email.
The co-ordinator and operations manager, getting crews and kit there.
Builds a first draft of next week's installs from the jobs ready to go, engineer skills and diaries, kit arriving and scaffold dates.
Turns the design into purchase orders for each supplier and a scaffold booking, with delivery dates set against the install date.
Writes to the customer before the install with what to clear, who is coming, how long it takes and what to expect on the day.
Reads the commissioning record, test results and photos from site and lists anything missing or inconsistent, while the crew can still fix it.
Checks a subcontractor's insurance, competent person registration and qualifications against your requirements, and writes the job brief they work to.
The co-ordinator, finishing every job with the paperwork in place.
Gathers the certificates, test results, warranties, datasheets and network operator confirmation into the handover pack, for firms whose software does not build it.
Writes a short guide for this customer's system, covering the settings you chose, what normal looks like, what to do if something seems wrong and when to call you.
Prepares the details for each manufacturer's warranty and the insurance-backed guarantee from the job file, and tracks the registration deadlines.
Billing analysts, clearing exceptions before they become complaints.
Reads each billing exception with the account history and meter data, suggests the likely cause and drafts the fix or the query to the agent.
Writes to the customer explaining why their bill changed, what was wrong, what the new figures are and what happens next.
Checks a catch-up bill against the back-billing limit for that customer type and works out what can and cannot be charged.
Reads the contract for a multi-site customer and sets out the group billing structure, cost centres and site list, ready to configure.
Compares a customer's direct debit with their actual usage and balance, and drafts the letter explaining any change.
Credit control, collecting fairly and handling movers.
Checks the evidence a new occupier has sent against your policy and drafts a reply that asks only for what is missing.
Drafts the letter confirming a payment arrangement agreed by an adviser, with the amounts, dates and the support available.
Matches the debt collection agency's report against your accounts and lists differences, complaints and cases outside agreed rules.
Summarises the account before an adviser calls a customer in arrears, with the balance, payments, past contact and any support already agreed.
Operations, getting customers on supply and keeping data flowing.
Writes the welcome pack from the contract with the rates, term, fee, payment terms, what happens at renewal and who to contact.
Gathers the account balance, contract status and history for a customer leaving you, so the person deciding on an objection has the facts in one place.
Reads rejected or missing industry data, such as readings and registration messages, and logs each with the likely cause and who must act.
Checks the site and meter list on a new contract against the industry data and the broker's submission before registration starts.
Account managers and the office, keeping customers informed.
Writes the update a customer needs at each stage, such as grant approved, waiting on the network operator, scaffold booked or install date confirmed, from the job record.
Works out which customers are due a service or a warranty check, drafts the reminder and offers dates.
Writes up a fault call or email onto the job, with the system details, the symptoms and what the customer has already tried, and drafts the reply.
Reads your contract records and lists every client whose contract ends in the coming months, with the termination window and what needs doing first.
Builds the account review from the client's bills, consumption and contract records, with cost against budget and anything that needs a decision.
Drafts a plain market update for clients from your own notes and the market data you subscribe to, with what it means for clients buying in the coming months.
Works out each landowner's rent from the lease, applies the indexation and caps, and drafts the letter and payment schedule.
Drafts the community newsletter or fund report for a site from your project updates, construction notes and the fund's grants.
Lists the contracts ending, drafts the renewal terms and offer letter to the timetable your licence sets, and flags customers who have had no offer.
Builds the review for a larger customer from billing and consumption data across their sites, with anything that needs explaining.
Builds a monthly view of each broker partner's live contracts, renewals due, submissions rejected and complaints, for the account manager.
Whoever handles complaints, against a deadline that starts on receipt.
Writes up a complaint from the email, call or letter onto your complaints log, with what went wrong, the root cause as far as the record shows, and the deadline for a response.
Reads the complaint against the job file, the contract and the handover pack, and drafts a reply that deals with each point in order.
Writes up a client's complaint about a supplier in the form the supplier's broker code asks for and sends it inside the deadline.
Gathers the documents, calls and letters for a case referred to the Energy Ombudsman and writes the summary and timeline the case handler will read.
Drafts the final response or deadlock letter from the complaint record, with what you found, what you are doing and the customer's right to go to the Energy Ombudsman.
Reads a month of complaint records and groups them by root cause, team and product, so the board sees what is driving them.
The person who keeps the business compliant.
Gathers the records your certification body will ask for, such as installation records, the complaints log, insurance and Technical Supervisor evidence, and lists anything missing.
Checks the week's leads and contracts against your records to confirm the MCS Customer Commitment went out at first contact and before any contract.
Drafts the annual submission from your records of staff, subcontractors, the areas you cover and the work you have done.
Works out the fee as each supplier wants it shown: the uplift per unit and on the standing charge, and the expected amount in pounds over the term where the code asks for it.
Checks a sample of sales calls and paperwork against the supplier codes of practice you work under, and lists any missing disclosure, record or recording.
Lists what Ofgem is likely to ask a broker for once registration starts, compares it with your policies and records, and drafts what is missing.
Collects each operating site's meter readings and prepares the monthly data for the Renewable Electricity Register, with a check against the monitoring figures.
Keeps a list of every project company with its directors, filing deadlines, bank mandates and agreements, and drafts the routine paperwork.
Builds Ofgem's complaints returns from your complaints log and billing data in the specification Ofgem sets, with a check against last period.
Reads an Ofgem request for information and drafts the response from your data, policies and past answers, with every question answered in order.
Reads Ofgem's decisions and consultations and updates your tracker of licence conditions, owners and evidence.
The finance team or the owner, at the month end.
Joins the quote, supplier invoices, labour, scaffold and grant receipts for each finished job and shows what it really made.
Drafts the deposit, delivery, commissioning and final invoices for a job with the references each one needs, such as the MCS certificate number on the final invoice.
Matches each supplier's monthly commission statement against your contract book and lists every contract paid short, not paid or paid on the wrong usage.
Builds a forecast of commission from live contracts and expected usage, and tracks clawbacks against the contracts they relate to.
Joins invoices, consultant fees and internal time to each project and reports spend against the development budget by stage.
Reads your grid offers and land agreements and forecasts every security, connection payment, option fee and rent by month.
Checks network, metering and policy cost invoices against your own expectations from volumes and published rates, and lists the differences.
Builds each broker's commission statement from billed usage and answers broker queries about what was paid.
The owner or office manager, writing down how the work is done.
Turns a walkthrough, a recorded call or notes from your best person into a written procedure with the steps, the checks and the common mistakes.
Builds the first weeks for a new starter from your procedures, policies and the role, with what to read, who to sit with and what to try.
Clearing what does not need the managing director's attention.
Reads the overnight inbox and sorts it into what needs you, what someone else should handle, and what can wait, with replies drafted for the routine ones.
Pulls the month's figures from your systems into the board pack, with the pipeline, delivery, cash and risks, and drafts the commentary.
Reads Ofgem, GOV.UK and scheme announcements each week and lists the changes that touch your business, with dates and what each means for you.
Drafts the paper for your investment committee at each stage gate from the project's land, grid, planning and cost position.
The pricing rules, trackers and reports you would otherwise pay for.
Turns the way your best person prices work into written rules Claude follows every time, so quotes, tenders and price letters come out the same way.
Builds a small internal tool for the thing your main system does not track, such as grant references, renewal dates, grid milestones or broker submissions.
Builds a dashboard from the exports your systems already produce, so the figures you check every week are in one place.
Time is the easy part to count. The other parts are keeping customers, winning work and owning what you build. Each has published evidence behind it, and each has a limit that we state next to it. The evidence changes with the kind of energy business you picked.
Homeowners judge an installer on whether anyone replies, whether they understand the system and whether the paperwork arrives. Claude writes the updates, guides and handover packs from the job record, and your team sends them.
The detailCloseWe do not claim that Claude raises satisfaction or referrals by any percentage, because nobody has published a figure we would defend. Nothing goes to a customer until a person has approved it.
The survey and the revised quote after it are where most domestic jobs are won or lost. Claude drafts the quote from the survey, checks it against the design and explains every change, so your surveyor spends the time on the house.
The detailCloseNo independent study shows how many more jobs a faster or clearer quote wins, so we give no win rate. Solar Together is a group-buying scheme with a set price, which is a special case.
The quoting rules, portal checks, reference tracker and handover templates we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business, beside the design and job software you already use.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM, design software, billing system, pricing platform or accounts package. Your customers' data stays subject to your contracts with them and to data protection law. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. UK law on AI copyright is under review. This is not legal advice.
A broker keeps clients by being there before the contract ends, with the termination sent, the tender run and the paperwork right. Claude runs the renewal list, drafts the notices and checks the packs, and your account managers have the conversations.
The detailCloseWe do not claim that Claude raises renewal rates by any percentage, because no published figure covers brokers' own client books. Nothing goes to a client or a supplier until a person has approved it.
Supplier prices move quickly and expire. The broker who turns the returns into a clear, honest recommendation the same day is easier to say yes to. Claude builds the packs, lines up the prices and drafts the report, and you give the advice.
The detailCloseNo independent study shows a broker winning more clients by quoting faster, so we give no win rate. 60% of businesses chose their current contract because it was cheapest (Ofgem, 2025), so price still decides most deals.
The tender packs, comparison templates, renewal tracker and commission checks we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business, beside the CRM and pricing platform you already use.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM, design software, billing system, pricing platform or accounts package. Your customers' data stays subject to your contracts with them and to data protection law. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. UK law on AI copyright is under review. This is not legal advice.
A developer keeps a project alive by meeting every grid, land and planning deadline. Claude keeps one register of offers, securities, milestones and option dates from the documents and emails, and your team acts on the warnings.
The detailCloseWe do not claim that Claude saves any project or queue position. The register only warns you, and the decisions and declarations stay with your directors.
Land, grid positions, consents and funding are each won with a pack of documents, and packs fail on gaps. Claude checks each pack against the rules and lists what is missing, and drafts heads of terms and memoranda from your own documents.
The detailCloseNo study shows a developer winning more land or consents because of AI, so we give no figure. Many storage applicants are larger than the businesses this page is written for.
The grid register, evidence checks, term sheets and asset report templates we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business, beside the GIS and monitoring tools you already pay for.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM, design software, billing system, pricing platform or accounts package. Your customers' data stays subject to your contracts with them and to data protection law. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. UK law on AI copyright is under review. This is not legal advice.
Customers stay with a supplier whose bills are right and whose answers are clear and quick. Claude works the exceptions, explains corrected bills and drafts complaint letters behind your team, and a trained person checks everything that goes out.
The detailCloseWe do not claim that Claude cuts complaints by any percentage, because nobody has published one. Ofgem's survey records business customers frustrated by chatbots, so these use cases sit behind your people and away from customers.
Above micro size, many business customers buy through a broker, so the supplier's quote has to reach the broker complete, priced and with the fee right. Claude writes the quote from your pricing model and checks every submission before it is keyed.
The detailCloseNo published study links a supplier's quote speed to broker recommendations, so we give no figure. Price sharing between firms through shared tools can raise competition law issues, and Ofgem's guidance says so.
The quote templates, submission checks, letter libraries and returns we build with Claude run in your accounts and belong to your business, around the billing platform you already run.
The detailCloseWe do not replace your CRM, design software, billing system, pricing platform or accounts package. Your customers' data stays subject to your contracts with them and to data protection law. Someone in your business maintains what is built, and we agree who. UK law on AI copyright is under review. This is not legal advice.
Every figure names who published it. Where nobody independent has published one, we leave the number out. Some of the energy evidence comes from companies that sell software, and we say so each time.
Nobody has published how many hours a week UK energy businesses spend on this work, so put in your own.
Costed at £32 an hour. An hour is costed from that salary plus employer National Insurance and pension, over 1,740 hours. No overhead is added.
This values the hours at what they cost you and nothing more. We do not value them at revenue, because nobody has published a defensible figure for what an hour of office time earns an installer, broker, developer or supplier.
Not a bigger company. The same company, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone from the office.
Not a bigger company. The same company, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone from the office.
Not a bigger company. The same company, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone from the office.
Not a bigger company. The same company, with most of the work on the right hand side of that list gone from the office.
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