Why We Started BuildQ
Every energy project – whether it be solar, wind, battery storage, geothermal, even nuclear power – starts with a mountain of PDFs, spreadsheets, and contracts scattered across a half‑dozen file repositories and hundreds of email threads. As a result, developers waste hours searching for answers to basic questions about their projects every day:
“Is there a change‑of‑control clause in that ground lease?”
“When does the interconnection study expire?”
“Which EPC contract version is the final one?”
Sifting through fragmented data sources can stall development timelines and critical financing transactions for weeks, drive up legal fees, and even worse, kill good projects before they reach commercial operation.
Today, the existential threat to projects posed by poor data management is exacerbated by external market conditions:
- Regulations are moving targets. Federal tax incentives, evolving IRA guidance, state‑by‑state permitting reforms – miss one detail and a project can lose its incentive stack or face months of re‑work.
- Capital is choosier than ever. Higher interest rate environment means high yields are available on investments outside of energy. Thus, investors demand airtight diligence before writing a check.
- Timelines are compressed. AI‑driven data‑center demand and grid‑reliability pressures require gigawatts of power to come online immediately.
Yet the industry still relies on manual folder spelunking and color‑coded Excel trackers – the same tools we used a decade ago.
As a team who spent years inside development firms, banks, and law practices, we built BuildQ because we were convinced the world doesn’t have time for manual data management. Clean energy capacity needs to triple in the next five years; project teams need tools that can match that pace.
Meet BuildQ
BuildQ is the AI-powered project intelligence platform for the energy sector. Our software powers real-time, AI-driven decision-making for project developers, financiers, attorneys, independent engineers, and other stakeholders – all on a single, intuitive platform.
Simple Integrations
Connect BuildQ to your existing file management systems such as SharePoint, Box, OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, ShareFile. Documents sync continuously – no extra uploads, no version confusion.
Chat With Project Documents
Ask BuildQ plain‑English questions like:
- “Show me every lease with a change‑of‑control clause.”
- “What is the earliest milestone payment due across these EPC contracts?"
BuildQ’s contextual chat surfaces the exact clause, highlights the language, and links back to the source document in one click.
AI-assisted Due Diligence
Our models identify and tag:
- Critical conditions precedent
- Payment schedules and milestone dates
- Regulatory deadlines and permit expirations
- Lender covenants and off‑take obligations
All of it rolls into a dynamic Risk Register that you can export to Excel or plug directly into your financing models.
Dynamic Project Profiles
Hand investors a single‑source of truth they can trust. Within minutes, BuildQ assembles a single‑source project profile for:
- Utility‑scale solar
- Battery energy storage systems
- Onshore wind
- More to come!
Each profile includes site data, revenue model inputs, and an audit trail for every. single. data point.
How Teams Use BuildQ
We transform fragmented data chaos into decisive action – converting project complexity into competitive advantage and unlocking billions in stranded capital.
- Developers collapse weeks of due of diligence into days, moving deals from LOI to NTP faster.
- Finance teams export investor‑ready due diligence checklists and deal memos with one click.
- Law firms replace hours of doc review with AI‑generated clause maps, allowing them to focus on strategy instead of document searches.
We’re onboarding a select group of pilot users now – and already seeing tasks that took a week completed in under an hour.
Security & Trust First
- SOC 2–ready architecture
- AES‑256 encryption at rest and in transit
- Granular role‑based permissions so you decide who sees what
What’s Next
This is just the beginning. Over the coming months we’ll share:
- Deep dives into our Automatic Citation Validation system
- Lessons learned from real‑world pilot projects
- Feature drops – think, dynamic due diligence checklists and instant data rooms
