How it works
Apolaki matches Philippine homeowners with vetted solar installers, and stands behind both ends of the deal.
Going solar means handing a stranger the top of your house and a few hundred thousand pesos, on the strength of a brochure. You get installers whose credentials were checked by a person, a price a second person signs off before it becomes payable, and photographic proof of every stage of the build.
Selling solar means burning weeks on homeowners who were never going to buy. You get invitations that are already qualified — a real property, a real system size, someone who has run the numbers and asked for quotes — against at most two rivals.
Below is one job, from first sign-in to a finished installation, seen from every seat at once. Follow the numbers.
Four things must happen before money or identity moves, and a fifth before any work is signed off. Each one exists to protect a specific person from a specific risk.
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.
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.
The same journey, from one chair. Picking a seat highlights that lane in the diagram above and answers what that seat sees, can do, and is kept from — at every stage of a job.
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.
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 change an account's role, and that needs a second authentication code.
| 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.
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 — a superadmin reviewing four documents, with a second authentication code — is how certification works now. Most of the existing certified accounts did not go through it: a demo sign-in path was marking accounts certified automatically, and that is where the bulk of the fourteen came from.
The mechanism is real and it is enforced. The existing pool has not all been through it. Both things are true and this page will not pretend otherwise.
If a screen looks empty, it is usually true rather than broken.