You need custom tools and automation to keep projects moving — but conventional software development is slow and expensive, and off-the-shelf products come with high subscription fees and never quite fit your process. So the work stays in spreadsheets and manual steps that don't scale.
We change that calculus. Because we combine deep renewables domain expertise with an AI-accelerated build process, we can deliver a custom solution tailored precisely to your needs — quickly, and at a cost that makes "buy" look expensive.
Our team pairs two things that rarely come together: years of experience developing and operating solar and battery storage projects, and a long track record of data analytics and custom software development. That combination of digital, data science, and renewables domain expertise means we understand and document your requirements quickly and accurately. We understand our clients' needs because we've been there.
Pollywog Ventures has developed a work system that leverages the latest advances in AI while maintaining appropriate guardrails. Those guardrails ensure a high-quality work product (no AI slop) and keep AI agents from touching critical infrastructure without going through human gatekeepers. Our clients get the benefits of AI-accelerated development with the confidence that AI is being used responsibly.
The payoff is speed on both ends of an engagement: a faster requirements phase (because we already have the domain expertise) and a faster build phase (because we leverage AI). Together they let us deliver solutions far more quickly and at lower cost than a conventional software project.
A channel partner intake portal with automated pricing
ASTM E2848 capacity test automation
A custom Salesforce app for work order management
A tax-equity partnership underwriting model API for automated project pricing
Remote diagnostics from DAS/SCADA data
A cloud-based O&M issue tracker
Numerous Salesforce customizations
Pollywog Ventures is founded and run by Garth Jensen, a Stanford physics PhD who has spent nearly three decades in solar and photovoltaics. As a founding member and Technical Director of GE Solar (later DSD Renewables), he helped scale the business from a single 700 kW project to more than 700 solar and solar-plus-storage projects totaling over 1 GW — and built and led development of key software it relied on, from performance-analytics tools to DSD Connect, the real-time pricing platform at the heart of DSD's regional developer network.
At Pollywog he pairs that domain depth with hands-on, AI-accelerated delivery: he architects and ships production platforms built to transfer, so clients own their infrastructure and code from day one. Expect assumptions tested, reasoning shown, and security treated as a default.
Tell us about your project. Whether you know exactly what you need or just have a problem that's outgrown your spreadsheets, we'll take a look.