UK-based renewable energy solutions company, Retrogreen, unifies their B2C and B2B platform with Catalyst
"Catalyst empowered us to launch our retrofit service for homeowners, landlords, brokers, and lenders in the UK quickly and easily.”
Colin Calder, CEO, Digital Buildings Ltd.
The company: Retrogreen
Retrogreen specializes in creating better homes by designing and implementing energy-efficient and low-carbon retrofits at affordable prices across the UK, serving the rapidly growing market for renewable energy solutions. Retrogeen helps a homeowner increase the value of their property and reduce operating costs by creating a digital twin that considers different retrofit measures, financial and disruption constraints, and user-defined preferences.
The challenge
Retrogreen is on a mission to help users develop their optimal retrofit plan using AI and advanced modeling software to find the right balance between affordability, disruption, cost of building, efficiency improvements, and potential increase in property value. As a pioneer in renewable energy solutions in the B2C realm, they faced challenges integrating and scaling their B2C ecosystem with their B2B apps hosted in the Zoho ecosystem. Being a customer-obsessed company, their main motto is to provide a seamless experience for their users with a single but secure point of authentication. The team sought a solution to enable homeowners to log into the Home Retrofit app and transform their homes into energy-efficient buildings.
Catalyst Features Leveraged by Retrogreen
Benefits and ROI: Rallying requests with Catalyst at the heart of their infrastructure
Ensuring Data Security and User Trust with Catalyst's Authentication Measures
Retrogreen's success story with Catalyst serves as a testament to the power of innovation and strategic partnership. Catalyst's robust authentication measures ensured the safety of users' sensitive data, instilling trust and confidence in Retrogreen's offerings. By embracing Catalyst, Retrogreen not only overcame its technical challenges but also elevated its customer experience to new heights.
Simplifying Complex Service Platforms with Catalyst
The team cites Catalyst's simplicity and scalability as two of the primary reasons that helped the company build and scale a complex service platform designed to manage many different user types, like homeowners, lenders, brokers, assessors, installers, and similar users. Retrogreen was particularly impressed by Catalyst's remarkably low learning curve and speed of implementation. Moreover, the high levels of abstraction provided by Catalyst proved invaluable; it enabled the seamless integration of Catalyst to sit effectively between the Retrogreen user portal and the B2B Zoho apps in the backend.
Achieving a Unified Customer Experience through Catalyst Integration
By leveraging Catalyst's capabilities, Retrogreen could bridge the gap between its various backend systems and provide users with a unified, hassle-free experience. Retrogreen's collaboration with Catalyst has forged a path towards a greener, more sustainable future–one energy-efficient building at a time.
Catalyst features Retrogreen found helpful
- Authentication
- Angular framework support
- One-click deployment
- No infrastructure management
- Compute-based billing
Authentication
Easy and quick authentication setup to add end-users to an application and customize app login and sign-up forms that complement the branding of a business.
Angular framework support
Support for multiple frontend frameworks like React, Angular, or basic client applications is provided natively.
One-click deployment
Deployment to the production environment is easy with a single click.
No infrastructure management
Catalyst offers a fully managed infrastructure, so you do not have to worry about server maintenance, provisioning, or patching.
Compute-based billing
Compute-based billing ensures they pay only for the resources they use instead of a user-based licensing model.