Platform · Quality & compliance
Thirty gates between the contract and the handover.
Quality on a solar site is usually a clipboard and a culture — both of which leave when the site engineer does. Voltara makes it a system: thirty named gates, QG-01 to QG-30, staged across pre-install, mid-install and commissioning, each able to demand evidence, every transition written to the audit log. The build cannot drift past a gate without the record saying who let it.
30
quality gates, QG-01 to QG-30
3
enforcement levels — enforce, advise, off
20
pre-commissioning checkpoints on the project
§01 · THE GATES
Thirty gates, staged where defects are born
Defects cluster at phase boundaries — what gets fixed to the roof, what gets wired, what gets energised. The 30 gates are staged accordingly: pre-install gates before work is committed, mid-install gates while rework is still cheap, commissioning gates before anyone flips the switch.
- Every gate has a number and a name — QG-01 to QG-30 — so “did we pass QG-14?” is a question with exactly one answer.
- Gates are staged across pre-install, mid-install and commissioning: the check lands where the defect is born, not in a closeout audit months later.
- The gates live on the project, next to delivery — not in a separate QA tool the site team never opens.
§02 · THE DISCIPLINE
Enforce, advise or off — set per tenant
Not every contractor runs the same QA maturity, and a tool that pretends otherwise gets switched off entirely. The gating discipline is set per tenant: enforce makes a gate a hard block, advise logs a warning and lets work proceed, off stands the gate down.
- Enforce: the transition is blocked until the gate passes. No override by enthusiasm or deadline.
- Advise: work proceeds, but the warning is logged — the record shows the gate was waved through, and when.
- Off: gates you do not run stay out of the way. A discipline you chose is a discipline that survives contact with a schedule.
- Because the setting is per tenant, the platform matches the discipline you actually run — and lets you tighten it as you grow.
§03 · THE EVIDENCE
A gate is an attachment, not an opinion
Passing a gate can require proof. Evidence attaches to the gate itself — test reports, DISCO approvals, permits — so when the client, the utility or a financier asks “show me”, the answer is a file on the record, not a phone call to whoever was on site that week.
- Attach test reports, DISCO approvals and permits directly to the gate they satisfy.
- The proof and the decision never separate — the evidence lives with the gate that demanded it.
- By handover, the quality file already exists: it was built gate by gate, not reconstructed the week before the client walkthrough.
§04 · THE AUDIT TRAIL
Every transition on the record
Gate transitions are audit-logged — who passed it, when, under which discipline. And every project state transition captures a gating snapshot: the exact gate configuration in force at that moment. When a dispute arrives in month eighteen, the record answers from month three.
- Audit-logged gate transitions: who, when, from what to what.
- Gating snapshots: each state transition records the discipline in force at that moment, so “what was the rule back then?” is answerable later — even after the rules change.
- The log is the institution’s memory. It does not change jobs, and it does not misremember.
§05 · THE STANDARDS
Anchored to IEC and NREA
The gates reference the standards the market actually inspects against: IEC 61215 and 61730 for modules, IEC 62109 for inverter safety, and NREA Article 5 for the Egyptian licensing regime. On the delivery side, the 20-point pre-commissioning checklist walks structural, electrical, commissioning, handover and closeout items before energisation.
- IEC 61215 / 61730 module references and IEC 62109 inverter-safety references, built into the gate register.
- NREA Article 5 anchoring for Egypt — the same licensing regime our own EPC arm answers to.
- The 20-point pre-commissioning checklist complements the gates from the delivery side — five disciplines, one list, before anyone flips the switch.
The pre-commissioning checklist lives with delivery, in Projects & delivery.
Honesty, on the record: HSE incident logs, job-safety analyses (JSA) and permit-to-work registers are not a module today. Quality Gates governs build quality and compliance evidence — it does not claim to be an HSE system.
§06 · WORKS WITH
What the gates discipline
Quality evidence lands next to the delivery states, the after-sales book and the rest of the record.
Projects & delivery
The 8-state machine the gates discipline — jurisdiction-filtered preconditions, audit-logged transitions and the 20-point pre-commissioning checklist.
After-sales
After the handover certificate: warranty register, SLA templates, service tickets, maintenance visits and the 8-state claims workflow.
The platform
All eleven modules on one record — quality evidence sits beside the contract, the billing and the crew that did the work.
Put thirty gates in front of your next build.
Demos are founder-led. We’ll set a gate to enforce, fail it, attach the test report that passes it, and read the audit trail back — the same discipline our own EPC arm builds under daily.
Book a demo Included in the EPC Platform — $899/mo
Quality Gates ships with the EPC Platform at $899/mo (10 seats). Annual pricing is monthly × 10 — two months free. Paddle.com is the merchant of record.