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title: "About"
description: "Learn how Strata Energy Solutions provides direct, founder-led California energy compliance consulting for design teams, builders, and contractors."
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# Direct energy compliance review from the person doing the work.

Strata is built for teams that want fewer handoffs, faster answers, and documentation that stays connected to design and construction decisions.

Energy compliance work gets harder when responsibility is split across too many handoffs. Strata keeps review, documentation, and coordination close together so questions can be answered by the person closest to the work.

## Approach highlights

Architects, builders, designers, and contractors need the same answer in different forms: a report for review, a note for coordination, or a field instruction that can be used on site.

- **01:** Direct review
- **02:** Readable documentation
- **03:** California-wide project support

## Compliance support that stays connected to the project.

- **01 / Read the plans:** Review the drawings, scope, climate zone, systems, envelope assumptions, and timing before a compliance path is treated as final.
- **02 / Name the tradeoffs:** Explain which choices affect permit review, field verification, equipment coordination, and owner decisions.
- **03 / Prepare the package:** Produce the report, forms, notes, or closeout path in language the next person can actually use.
- **04 / Stay available:** Help resolve plan check comments, contractor questions, HERS coordination, and closeout items without forcing a new handoff.

## Why direct review matters.

Energy compliance decisions affect design, documentation, installation, and inspection. Keeping that judgment close reduces drift between the report and the work.

### Design-aligned decisions

Energy compliance is handled in the context of the design, so the project is less likely to get pushed into avoidable revisions late in the process.

### Plain-language coordination

Requirements are explained in plain language so architects, builders, and field partners know what to do without extra translation.

### Permit-focused execution

Reports and documentation are prepared to help plan check move forward with less back-and-forth.

### Built for the field

Recommendations are made with installation, inspection, and final verification in mind, not only what looks acceptable on paper.

## The useful answer is the one that survives handoff.

Energy compliance is not just a calculation. It becomes a permit response, a drawing note, a specification, a contractor question, a HERS appointment, and finally a closeout record.

Strata is structured around that full chain so the early modeling decision does not become a field surprise later.

## Project types that need practical code coordination.

The same California standards can create different problems depending on scope, existing conditions, and who needs the answer next.

### Custom homes

Single-family homes where the energy strategy needs to stay aligned with the architectural design and permit schedule.

### Multifamily residential

Residential buildings that need consistent documentation, steady coordination, and a cleaner path through plan review and verification.

### Additions and remodels

Projects with existing-condition constraints where the compliance path needs to stay practical, buildable, and permit-ready.

### Light commercial

Light commercial projects that benefit from clear sustainability documentation, permit coordination, and field verification support.