460: Collaboration at scale, a “Slack for Solar”? Raptor Maps CEO, Nikhil Vadhavkar

Raptor Maps serves as the solar industry’s system of record by deploying a digital twin framework that integrates aerial inspection data, time-series performance metrics, and equipment records. CEO and co-founder Nikhil Vadhavkar explains how the company transitioned from ag-tech—where they optimized potato crop yields—to solar, leveraging the same principles of remote sensing and data standardization to solve scaling challenges. By centralizing siloed information, the platform enables stakeholders to move beyond manual, error-prone processes toward actionable, data-driven decision-making. This approach facilitates supply chain traceability and warranty validation, effectively functioning as a collaborative hub for developers, owners, and operators. Ultimately, the company replaces outdated, fragmented reporting methods with a unified, transparent architecture that enhances asset performance and accelerates global decarbonization efforts.