beard.Energy is a software platform for trades businesses and a utility scale energy infrastructure developer. Meet Scout. Get BeardPowered.
Eleven connected tools including CRM, AI, e-signature, email, SEO, estimating, and more. Built by someone who actually works in the trades. Not adapted from generic SaaS. Built from the field up.
Solar, hydrogen, microgrids, SolarSlate BIPV. Utility scale development across multiple states. Projects others won't attempt. Executed by someone who's been first before.
Every tool in the suite shares a single data layer. When the CRM creates a job, Scout knows about it. When Hub logs a lead, it goes straight to Contacts. When Sign gets a signature, the job closes out. That's not a feature. That's the architecture.
Scout isn't ChatGPT with a construction hat on. Scout is the brain behind the entire BeardPowered platform -- trained on your conversations, your jobs, your customers, and your crew. Ask it a code question and it answers. Ask it what you quoted Mary last month and it knows. Ask it to draft an estimate for a 200A service upgrade in Salt Lake County and it pulls current market rates. Every conversation Scout has makes it smarter about your specific business. The longer you run BeardPowered, the more Scout knows. Nothing else on the market works like this for the trades.
Call comes in. By the time the dispatcher hangs up, the customer record exists, the job is created, and the diagnostic agreement is drafted. Your tech arrives on site with a full mobile workflow covering photo capture across 80 categories, voice notes that generate new inspection steps on the fly, and an AI observer watching for anything that gets missed. The job closes out with a branded report in the customer inbox, an AI generated estimate ready to send, and every photo, note, and signature stored in the job record. No double entry. No paper. No forgetting.
Corey drives between jobs talking to his phone. By the time he pulls into the next driveway, the lead is logged, the task is created, and the customer note is in the CRM. Hub listens to one voice recording and pulls out every intent buried inside it -- new leads, tasks, customer updates, relationship notes -- then surfaces them as individual approve or dismiss cards. Nothing saves without approval. White labeled per client so every contractor gets their own branded version.
Describe a document and AI drafts it. Upload an existing PDF and Gemini Vision finds every signature field, populates the signers, and sends each one a unique secure link. They sign on their phone with a drawn signature or typed name. The executed PDF comes back with a Certificate of Completion showing every signer, timestamp, IP address, and a SHA-256 document hash proving nothing was altered. ESIGN Act compliant. Every executed document backed up to R2. No DocuSign. No third party holding your agreements. No per envelope fees. Ever.
Every contact your business has ever touched, in one place that every BeardPowered app can see. Add contacts by voice, file upload, or paste. When you mention Jason Reynolds in a Scout conversation, his full contact card surfaces inline. When Hub logs a new lead, Contacts knows about it. When the CRM creates a customer, Contacts knows about that too. The goal is simple: replace your phone contacts entirely with something that actually remembers what happened.
A contractor with no website, no domain, and no professional email finishes the five step Wizard on a Tuesday afternoon. By the time they close the browser they have a live domain, a website with over 100 pages of locally researched SEO content covering every city and service in their area, and a professional email address at their own domain. No web developer. No agency. No waiting three months for something that should take an afternoon.
Grid takes over after Wizard builds the foundation. It monitors every page on the contractor site through Google Search Console, finds the ones that are underperforming, rewrites them with AI and local research, and queues them for approval before anything goes live. It also keeps building -- new city pages, new service pages, new content -- on a schedule, automatically. The SEO agency charges $2,000 a month and sends a report. Grid actually does the work.
You have an idea for a tool at 9pm. Describe it to Builder. By 9:15 it is live at a subdomain with DNS configured, SSL provisioned, nginx proxying, PM2 managing the process, and a tile in your Terminal dashboard. Builder handles the entire infrastructure layer so you can focus on what the app actually does. Every BeardPowered app started this way. Now the same pipeline is available to any operator running their own stack.
Every iOS SSH client is a fight. Canvas based terminals break on autocorrect. Termius dropped its free tier. Terminal was built because none of them worked from a phone the way a solo operator actually needs. It uses real DOM elements so the iOS keyboard behaves. You can write and deploy files, manage secrets across every app, watch Claude Code work in real time, approve file changes from a card, and restart any server without touching a laptop. The entire BeardPowered platform was built from this terminal on an iPhone.
Your domain. Your server. Your reputation. Dedicated IPs, automated SPF/DKIM/DMARC, zero Google or Microsoft dependency. Most email fails because the sending IP has no reputation. We build that reputation first so when your email goes out, it lands. BeardMail is being proven at a live electrical contractor right now. When the IP is trusted by Google, Outlook, and Apple, it opens to new clients. Sovereign email that actually delivers is worth waiting for.
Upload the construction drawings. Confirm the electrical symbol legend on page one. Hit go. Takeoff finds every floor plan page, tiles each one at high resolution, and counts every symbol instance using Gemini Vision with human verification built in. What used to take an estimator a full day of highlighters and spreadsheets now takes fifteen minutes and catches what the highlighter misses. Sold separately because not every contractor does their own estimating -- but for those who do, this is the tool.
ServiceTitan doesn't know what's in your DocuSign. Your SEO agency doesn't know what jobs closed this week. HubSpot has never heard of your field tech. Get BeardPowered and Scout knows all of it. Because it's one system.
beard.Energy develops utility scale infrastructure across solar, hydrogen, microgrids, and BIPV. Projects that require operators who've been first before.
Sand bucket ballast system. $35 to $55M prime contract. Dec 31, 2026 in service deadline. No pile driving. Class A GE licensure.
Photovoltaics built into the building itself, replacing reroofs entirely. The roof becomes the energy surface. Commercial and industrial retrofit.
Green hydrogen production systems. Electrolyzer selection, system sizing, offtake development. Projects across multiple states.
Whether you're a contractor who's tired of paying $2,000 a month for tools that don't talk to each other, or a developer with a project that needs real execution, this is the right place.