How it works
Solar, with both sides protected
Apolaki matches Philippine homeowners with vetted solar installers, and stands behind both ends of the deal.
If you own the roof
You are handing a stranger the top of your house and a few hundred thousand pesos. So: installers a person has checked, a price a second person signs off before you owe it, and photographic proof of every stage.
If you install it
You are done chasing homeowners who were never going to buy. Every invitation here is already qualified — a real property, a real system size, someone who has run the numbers — and you face at most two rivals.
Two Apolaki staff roles appear below, and they are deliberately different people. A matcher decides who gets invited and whose quote wins. Operations signs off the money and the finished work. Neither can do the other's job.
Below is one job, from first sign-in to a finished installation, seen from every seat at once. Follow the numbers.
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The five gates
Five points where the platform stops and checks. Each protects a specific person from a specific risk.
Why an installer is shown a region and a system size instead of an address
Before the job is final, an invitation exposes only the region and the system size in kilowatt-peak — enough to price the work, not enough to identify a household. An exact address identifies a home as surely as a name does, so it is withheld under the same rule rather than disclosed on the excuse that it is not a name. The full record replaces the passport the moment the price is approved.
Why the person who picks your installer cannot approve what you pay
A matcher chooses the winning quote. Operations approves the amount. The same split applies to building work — the installer submits the proof, someone else confirms it. One person should never be able to both choose a supplier and authorise paying them.
The separation is between roles, not between people. A superadmin holds both authorities, and nothing compares the approver against the person who made the assignment. That is what a superadmin is for, but it is worth knowing.
Choose a seat
The same journey from one chair. Picking a seat highlights that lane above, and answers what it sees, what it can do, and what is kept from it at every stage.
Where the numbers come from
Three figures appear on screen during a job. Only one of them is a price.
| Figure | Who sets it | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| The readiness estimate | Apolaki | A recommended system size and an indicative installed cost, worked out from your bill and the sunlight where you live. It is a comparison anchor. It is never a quote and nobody is bound by it. |
| The quote | The installer | Priced line by line by the installer from their own bill of materials. The platform adds the lines up itself rather than trusting a submitted total. |
| The platform fee — 5% | Apolaki | Calculated from the accepted quote and owed by the installer, not added to the homeowner's bill. It is what pays for the vetting and the second signature. |
note A homeowner currently sees the fee line on their assignment card, on a row whose own purpose is to tell the installer what they owe. It is the platform's margin, not an extra charge.
Apolaki never takes or holds your money. You pay your installer directly and record the payment here with a receipt; operations checks the receipt before any work may begin.
Signing in
The app is at apolaki-478302.web.app. Sign in with Google, or with an email and password.
note There is no create-account screen. The account is made for you the first time you sign in, and starts as a consumer. Only a superadmin can move an account into or out of a staff role, and that needs a second authentication code. An ordinary account can flip itself between consumer and installer — that is exactly what the sign-in toggle does, and it rewrites the same role field everything else on this page keys off.
| Account | Role | Lands on |
|---|---|---|
| homeowner@apolaki.solar | consumer | Solar assessment |
| installer@apolaki.solar | installer | Verification |
| ops@apolaki.solar | operations | Operations |
| admin@apolaki.solar | admin | Operations |
| superadmin@apolaki.solar | superadmin | Operations |
The sign-in card carries a Consumer / Installer toggle. It is not a preference: for an ordinary account it rewrites which journey you are in. Staff accounts keep their role, and there is no way to switch seats after signing in — log out and back in with the other choice.
Current state — as of 29 July 2026
Production counts, hand-checked on one day. They are here because they explain what you will and will not see on screen, not because they are impressive.
| What | Count | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Installer accounts | 34 | Mostly seed and test data |
| Certified | 14 | Certification alone does not make an installer matchable |
| Actually matchable | 2 | The other twelve have no matching profile |
| Projects | 3 | One still awaiting quote approval |
| Live assignments | 2 | What staff see on Assignments |
About those 14 certified accounts. The certification gate described on this page has two forms. A superadmin can pass a four-document review. Separately, an ordinary administrator can mark an account certified outright — one action, a second authentication code, and no documents required. The button in the shipped admin screen calls that second, looser path.
On top of that, most of the existing certified accounts went through neither: a demo sign-in path was marking accounts certified automatically, and that is where the bulk of the fourteen came from.
So "verified" today means an administrator vouched for the company — not that documents were read. The four-document review exists and is the stricter path; it is not the only one. This page will not claim more than that.
If a screen looks empty, it is usually true rather than broken.