Every warehouse roof, and who really owns it

Jake owns a small solar company in Phoenix. He puts panels on the flat roofs of warehouses and workshops. The roofs are easy to see from the street, but finding who owns them is not. He knocks on doors and meets tenants who cannot decide. Weeks later, he learns the owner lives in another state, and the roof went to a bigger installer. With xMap Flows, Jake built Sunray. Every Monday at seven, across west Phoenix, Sunray finds the warehouses and workshops, skips the ones he has seen before, looks up who owns each building in the county records, scores the best roofs for solar, and emails Jake each owner’s mailing address. This Monday, Sunray finds thirty-eight new buildings, each with its owner and their mailing address. Twenty-two owners live out of state. The best roof, near the airport, belongs to an investor in Chicago. By Friday, Jake has booked a site survey. Jake stopped knocking on tenants’ doors. Now he writes straight to the owner.

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