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Partnership · Build Canada Power
In development
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. Build Canada Power’s target is comparable scale with a fraction of the people — and Zerus is the technology partner designing and building the agentic layer to get there. This page is the roadmap.
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
8×
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.
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.
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 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 delivers — procurement agents built on BCP’s supplier data, tuned as the network grows. 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 delivers — agents wired into accounting and inventory, so the books stay closed in near-real-time across entities and provinces.
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 delivers — logistics agents that roll out as the network is built, so distribution scales without a proportional ops 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 delivers — sales agents trained on BCP’s modules, pricing and bilingual market. An early win that lifts conversion while the team stays small.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Want a layer like this for your business?
Whether it’s one workflow or your whole operation, we’ll scope where agents pay off first.