Energy · Solar

Unlock your share of South Africa's R50bn commercial solar pipeline.

Commercial solar is sold, not bought. We hand your team exclusive, geo-precise leads, the right accounts and the right people, so the high-value customers you want actually know you exist.

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A clean map of South Africa with commercial solar-suitable roofs shown as points and target polygons (the "geo-precise leads" visual). Use a real, de-identified data export, not a stock photo.
The problem

The deals you lose, and why.

Commercial and industrial solar sales is different. Owners are used to being sold to, deals are high value, and sales cycles are long, so both sales and non-sales are expensive.

Invisible to the buyer

You lose every deal where the customer never considers you, and the bakkie brigade wins by default.

Wasted on non-starters

Your best people burn time on prospects with no need, no budget or no urgency, or talk to the wrong person with no authority.

Admin drag

Manual research, analysis and presentations block deals and pull your hunters off the hunt.

Wrong buyer type

Right sales motion, wrong target. Owner-occupiers and property funds have completely different triggers.

The approach

A sniper rifle, not a shotgun.

High customer lifetime value, long sales cycles and expensive staff mean precision pays. We work from targeted geographies upwards and hand you small, exclusive batches, with the non-starters already filtered out. Your team takes the right message to the right person at the right account, and converts more, at a lower cost per sale.

Many
candidates found
Many candidates in, a few qualified, exclusive leads out
A few
qualified, exclusive leads
The dashed lines are filters: most candidates are removed there, before they cost you anything.

Our value is in the leads we don't give you. There is no magic list for this space: every lead is built from the ground up, then filtered down to the few worth your team's week.

Why us, not a data platform

A platform hands you data. We hand you deal-ready leads.

Global solar-prospecting platforms are slick, and we admire the data-led approach. But high-value C&I sales reward depth and precision over breadth and scale. We are built differently, on purpose.

A global data platform

Broad coverage across many countries, at scale
A self-serve platform that you drive yourself
You still filter, find the contacts and build the materials
Optimised for volume, and sold to anyone, including your competitors

Gmaven

South Africa only, because SA data is thin, messy and unstructured, and we have spent decades resolving it
We do the heavy lifting: the non-starters are filtered out before you ever see them
We add the account-relevant detail and prepare your customer-specific materials, so your team only hunts
Fewer, exclusive leads that convert, on a pay-for-leads model aligned to your outcomes

A platform optimises for everywhere. We optimise for the next deal you close in South Africa. With long sales cycles and expensive teams, a sniper rifle beats a scattergun, and small, exclusive volumes make managing your sales team easier, not harder.

What's in a lead

Rich data on every property, opportunity and owner.

A sample lead, de-identified. Each one carries the property, the solar opportunity and the decision-maker context your team needs to open the right door at the right level.
Property
TypeIndustrial / factory
GLA41,157 m²
LocationKorsten, Gqeberha
RelationshipOwner-occupier
Market valueR291.8m
Solar opportunity
Usable roof22,123 m²
Est. system3,750 kWp
Est. solar valueR39.0m
Monthly power452,727 kWh
SuitabilityHigh
Decision-maker
Active directors14
Owner typePrivate, owner-occupier
Decision levelCEO / MD
Head officeSouth Africa
ReachableYes, POPIA-compliant

Personal contact details are provided to clients under POPIA-compliant terms and are not shown on this page.

Your deal-making tools

Sales automation, at one click.

The research and admin that blocks deals, done for you by specialists and your systems.

Secure, real-time data feed

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Screenshot: your leads in one secure place, opening in Google Earth in a click.

Google add-ons

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Screenshot: Gmaven data working inside Google add-ons.

Slice-and-dice dashboards

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Screenshot: a charted, filterable dashboard of the lead data.

Suburb-level door openers

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Screenshot: a customised, suburb-level presentation generated for outreach.

Property-level presentations

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Screenshot: a customised, property-level presentation or brochure.

Optimised visit routes

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Screenshot: an automated, optimised route map for owner-occupier site visits.
Why us

Why we can do what others can't.

We are specialists at processing commercial property data at scale, built on years of iteration, and we know how commercial property deals actually happen.

Built from the ground up

No magic list exists for this space. We build every lead, then filter it down to the few that fit.

Exclusive, never bruised

You get exclusive access to your leads for a defined, extendable period. No recycled lists, no ambulance-chasing.

Deep CRE credibility

Over R3bn in deals, SA's top property companies as clients, and an IDC SPII grant behind the algorithms.

Responsibly sourced

POPIA compliant, with a clean, conflict-free model and a solid framework for prospect engagement.

The prize

Built on real roof data, not estimates.

At roughly 19% penetration, commercial property solar is still under-penetrated. On current tariffs, grid-tied solar is a no-brainer, and we estimate R50bn is still to be spent on commercial rooftop solar over the next five years.

R50bn
still to be spent on commercial rooftop solar (next 5 years)
R2.1bn
solar deal pipeline we've supported
8.6M m²
of commercial roof processed for solar

Every figure traces back to a real, mapped roof, not a modelled average. That is the difference between a list that converts and one that wastes your team's week.

Do more high-value deals. Win with data.

Tell us the geographies and buyer types you're after, and we'll build the leads, filtered down to the ones worth chasing.