The build plan — phased roadmap, not yet deployed

An AI-native operating model for a scaling energy company.

First Solar took roughly 20 years and 8,000 people to become a CdTe-solar leader. BCP's target is comparable scale with a fraction of the people — with an agentic AI layer doing the work that used to need thousands. This page is the roadmap.

Designed and built with Zerus AI, BCP's long-term technology partner — full technical roadmap at zerus.ai/bcp.

The bet

Same technology. A leaner way to scale it.

First Solar and BCP build on the same CdTe thin-film chemistry — so the benchmark is real. The difference is the operating model: BCP distributes proven OEM glass and operates energy assets, with AI doing the work that used to need thousands of people.

First Solar
~8,000
people · ~20 years · ~1.7 MW shipped per employee
The gap
output per person — the gap AI closes
Build Canada Power — target
~1,000
people · ~10 years · powered by an agentic AI layer

Productivity figures are 2024 estimates benchmarked to First Solar; the “1,000 people / 10 years” figure is BCP's target, not a guarantee. The point isn't replacing factory workers — heavy fabrication sits with BCP's OEM. AI replaces the white-collar and operations layer a fast-scaling company would otherwise have to hire.

Where we are

The foundation is in build. The agents follow.

Now · in build

Digital platform & strategy

BCP's digital platform, product positioning and the AI systems roadmap — the foundation everything else installs into.

Next

Go-to-market agents

Lead qualification, module quoting, project intake and proposal drafting — the early wins that lift revenue while the team stays small.

Later

Operations at scale

Procurement, ERP, logistics, manufacturing intelligence and energy-asset operations — phased with BCP's physical buildout.

Concept demo

Touch one piece of the layer.

The instant estimator below is a working front-end concept from the go-to-market layer — the math is real, from BCP's published module figures; the AI analysis is a labelled sample.

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How the estimate works

Grounded in real numbers, not guesswork.

Published module performance

Capacity and yield scale from the same figures shown on our module pages — so the estimate stays consistent with the product.

Province-level data

Solar yield, electricity price and grid-emissions factors are adjusted for each Canadian province and territory.

AI layer — concept stage

The AI analysis shown above is an illustrative sample. The production AI service — plain-language analysis in English or 中文 — is planned with our technology partner Zerus AI as part of the funded roadmap.

The roadmap · one layer, end to end

One agentic operating system across the whole business.

Not nine point tools — one layer of cooperating agents running BCP's workflows, with people supervising instead of executing. Here's what the layer will do as it comes online, and how Zerus AI delivers each piece.

Supply chain

Agentic procurement

Sourcing, RFQs and customs paperwork across a dozen cross-border suppliers — quotes normalized across currencies and incoterms, landed cost optimized, compliance docs auto-generated.

Zerus AI delivers — procurement agents built on BCP's supplier data. The first, highest-ROI phase.

Back office

Autonomous ERP & finance

Bookkeeping, reconciliation, AP/AR, multi-entity consolidation and a live executive dashboard — the back office a lean, fast-scaling company shouldn't have to hire.

Zerus AI delivers — agents wired into accounting and inventory, so the books stay closed in near-real-time.

Operations

Intelligent logistics

Demand forecasting and inventory positioning across 6 hubs and 25 branches, container tracking and just-in-time replenishment — holding the 7-day delivery promise without overstock.

Zerus AI delivers — logistics agents that roll out as the network is built, so distribution scales without proportional headcount.

Go-to-market

AI sales & channel

Lead qualification and routing, automated module quoting, a project-registration deal-protection system and reseller enablement — multilingual, around the clock.

Zerus AI delivers — sales agents trained on BCP's modules, pricing and bilingual market. Preview one front end in the demo above.

Engineering

Project dev & permitting

Site assessment, energy-yield modeling, module layout and bill-of-materials, code-compliance checks and auto-drafted grant and incentive applications.

Zerus AI delivers — a project-development copilot that turns a site address into a costed design, a permit package and a draft grant application.

Regulatory

Certification & compliance

Navigating CSA — the gating step for Canadian sales — by assembling test evidence, running gap analysis and tracking every requirement across products and authorities.

Zerus AI delivers — a certification dossier and requirement matrix kept continuously current, so the gating dependency moves as fast as it can.

Local plants

Manufacturing intelligence

Production scheduling, computer-vision quality inspection, predictive maintenance and recycling-stream sorting — keeping the planned Alberta assembly lines lean.

Zerus AI delivers — vision-inspection and predictive-maintenance models brought online as the Alberta plants come up. A later phase tied to physical buildout.

Recurring revenue

Energy-asset operations

A virtual power plant across the owned fleet: real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, market dispatch and closed-loop control of the greenhouse ⇄ data-centre heat loop.

Zerus AI delivers — fleet operations as BCP shifts from selling modules to owning assets, where “fewer people, higher margins” pays off most.

Brand & capital

Marketing & investor relations

Multilingual content and localization, a concept-video pipeline, and an always-current investor data room with financial and ESG reporting.

Zerus AI delivers — productized content and IR workflows so a tiny team can sustain a national brand and an investor-grade data room.

Roadmap, stated plainly. These capabilities describe the operating layer Zerus AI and BCP are building together. Phases ship as BCP's products, plants and asset fleet come online — this is the build plan, not a list of deployed systems.

The partnership

A partnership that compounds as BCP scales.

Zerus AI is building the agentic layer and will operate it as it comes online — building alongside BCP as it scales. The bigger the asset base grows, the more the AI runs, and the deeper the partnership compounds.

01

Makes the margin story real

“More infrastructure, fewer employees, higher margins” is a slide until something runs it. Zerus AI turns it into operating reality — directly backing BCP's capital raises.

02

Compounds with BCP's data

Every project, quote and asset-hour deepens the data the agents are built on — an operating advantage competitors can't simply copy.

03

Phased, low-risk rollout

Start with the highest-ROI agents — procurement, quoting, grant drafting, ERP — then logistics and project development, then asset operations as the owned fleet grows.

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