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Your first run

A first run in MAIA is the same four steps as every run, once you have chosen a county: define the objective, dispatch it, review the result, and compound what worked. This page follows one run through all four.

What you end with#

The example on this page is the solar run that plays on the home page. A commercial solar team wants target accounts in Maricopa County, Arizona. This is where the run ends.

MAIA answers

10 sites qualify, representing 1.60 million square feet of roof and 5.59 MW of estimated solar capacity. All have verified ESG obligations and federal incentive eligibility; eight also sit in designated incentive areas.

A finished run: the answer in the chat, the layer on the map, and the same rows in the table.

Note

The figures on this page are real output from one run. They are not every qualifying building in the county, and your county, your conditions, and your results will differ.

Before you start: choose a county#

  1. Sign in at app.maia-analytics.com.
  2. Start a new project. MAIA asks one thing first: where.
  3. Pick a county from the map or from the list. The counties your plan opens are marked In your plan.

A project covers one county and cannot move to another. For a second county, start a second project.

Note

On the Free plan, five counties are included and the sixth is a county of your choice. That choice is permanent. See Plans.

MAIA asks where first. Counties in your plan are shaded on the map and listed on the right.

1. Define the objective#

Write what you want the way you would brief a colleague. Name the thing, the place, and the conditions that make it a fit.

You ask

Find large, single-tenant commercial buildings in Maricopa County with solar-ready roofs, verified ESG obligations, and available incentives

This objective leaves "large" to MAIA, which picks a threshold and tells you which. When you have a number, give it. More on writing a good objective: Define.

2. Dispatch it#

Press Find. MAIA names each action as it takes it. This run also followed a saved skill, so it showed the skill's plan and marked each phase as it finished. A first run has no skill yet, so you see the actions without the plan.

Find large commercial roofsWhat it found10 shortlistedWhat it readProperties and building footprints
Verify a single operating tenantWhat it found10 verifiedWhat it readProperty records and company research
Read roof quality and estimate capacityWhat it found5.59 MW totalWhat it readImagery and roof geometry
Verify ESG obligations and incentivesWhat it found8 in designated areasWhat it readCompany disclosures and incentive programs

MAIA stops and asks when a choice would change the result, or when the next step would spend credits you have not agreed to. When a choice would not change the result, MAIA picks a sensible default and tells you which one. You can stop a run at any point.

Note

The first phase is a query of records. The other three are research, one row at a time, and each row spends credits. A run above your row limit stops on an approval card before it starts. See What uses credits.

A skill's plan in the chat. Each phase is checked off as it finishes.

More on questions and approvals: Dispatch.

3. Review the result#

The answer arrives as a layer: ten sites on the map, and the same ten rows in the table. Beside it sits a second layer of the 12,081 buildings MAIA screened from the records, each marked with the signal it was missing.

Four of the ten rows:

Sonora Quest LaboratoriesRoof area257,875 sq ftEst. capacity902.6 kWWhy nowESG, federal incentive, designated area
Honeywell Aerospace Global HeadquartersRoof area255,771 sq ftEst. capacity895.2 kWWhy nowESG, federal incentive, designated area
Phoenix ManufacturingRoof area145,099 sq ftEst. capacity507.8 kWWhy nowGood roof, ESG, federal incentive
Dircks Moving & LogisticsRoof area107,548 sq ftEst. capacity376.4 kWWhy nowExcellent roof, ESG, federal incentive

Why now is an enrichment: a column MAIA fills by research, one row at a time. Open any researched cell and choose View reasoning to see what stands behind that one value.

Reasoning

Why now, for Dircks Moving & Logistics

  • Roof read: flat, unshaded membrane. Rated Excellent for solar.
  • Estimated 376.4 kW from 107,548 sq ft of usable roof.
  • ESG target and federal ITC eligibility verified in disclosures.

Sources

  • Maricopa County Assessor
  • NAIP imagery
  • Utility programs
  • Company disclosures
A researched cell from this project, opened with View reasoning.

Then ask the next question. The project keeps its state, so each question builds on the last.

You ask

Is there a portfolio play?

MAIA answers

Honeywell Aerospace US LLC owns two shortlisted sites with 1.31 MW of combined estimated capacity. Phoenix Children's Hospital also has two sites totaling 1.21 MW.

More on checking a result: Review.

4. Compound what worked#

A run that worked is worth keeping.

  • Save the method as a skill. A skill is not tied to a place, so the objective you wrote for Maricopa County runs in the next county.
  • Teach MAIA your context. What you tell it about your business is saved as knowledge and used on every turn.
  • Take the table out. Download it, or send a link. See Export, share, or save the result.

More on making work repeatable: Compound.