Free for commercial property owners
Send your address and a recent utility bill. We size every system for your whole building and bring the options together in one free preliminary plan. When you’re ready, we connect you with partners to build it. You never pay EVOA.
For commercial property owners
One free proposal for your whole building, made for commercial property owners, investors and developers. You spend about a minute. We handle the rest.
Why EVOA
Email a long list of companies, one system at a time, and try to compare answers that never line up.
Pay for advice up front, and hope the firm isn’t steering you toward what it sells.
We size every system together against your real costs and hand you one proposal. Our vetted partners bid on it.
How it works
Share the address and what you pay for energy.
We size each system, get its design and estimate, and review the result.
See one free proposal, then ask for bids if you want to move ahead.
Vetted companies bid on the same packet, so you compare like with like.
The company you pick inspects, confirms the price and signs.
What you get
Every relevant option, sized against your actual utility costs, gas and electric.
One view of cost and return, with payments optimized so they never exceed your monthly savings.
Our vetted partners, matched to your needs on fit and price.
Optimizing across systems matters. A roof might fit only part of the solar you need, and geothermal or a better envelope can close the gap. Single system companies don’t look at it that way. We do.
How we stay on your side
We don’t add a consulting fee on top of your project. The companies that do the work set their own prices, and you choose who builds it. Partners pay EVOA 5% of the final project, only when they win it, and no one can buy a higher ranking or an exclusive bid.
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Start with Evan, or write to us at hello@evoasystems.com.
In development · Starting in Western New York
You’re invited
EVOA finds every way a commercial property can lower its utility bill, designs the project, and brings it to partners ready to bid. We’re starting in Western New York, and we want early partners shaping it with us.
Trades we’re looking for
Projects pass a payback check before they reach you.
A full design packet is ready before you price anything.
Bid on your trade only, at your own price.
The questions we hear from partners
The early design, site visits and proposals that never close are done before a project reaches you. You price a finished packet.
EVOA brings commercial owners in and looks at every system, so projects reach your trade that would never have called you directly.
Every project is screened for payback and the owner has already seen the proposal and asked for bids.
Who does what
Shares the address and the building’s energy cost.
Uses bill, building and site data to size each trade.
Each trade’s design and estimate on industry tools.
Reviews each output and builds one proposal and bid packet.
Sees the free proposal and sends it out.
Vetted companies bid on the same packet, trade by trade.
The winner inspects, confirms the price, signs and builds.
Pricing
Nothing up front and no plan to pay for. You bid at your own price, and EVOA earns 5% of the final project only on work you win. Owners never pay EVOA.
Rankings come from licenses, insurance, verified results and reviews from owners who hired you through EVOA. No one can buy a higher ranking or an exclusive bid.
Partner fee
5%
of the final project, on wins only
Send us your trade and service area. We’ll set up a short call. Or write to hello@evoasystems.com.
In development · Starting in Western New York
You’re invited to invest early
Commercial owners overpay because every energy quote covers one system and no one compares them all. EVOA fixes that, and it earns 5% of every signed project it brings to partners.
Raising now
$0 of $10,000
0%
Pays for the first design software seats and utility data access, so we can run our first test projects end to end. Counts letters of intent once EVOA confirms them.
Next: pre-seed round
$600,000
Executive summary
EVOA Systems is the marketplace for lower utility bills in commercial buildings. Owners get a free whole building energy proposal covering solar, batteries, geothermal, HVAC, building envelope and EV charging. Vetted companies bid on the same scope, and they pay EVOA 5% of the final project only when they win.
Commercial owners get one quote at a time from companies that sell one system, or pay a consultant. No one compares every option against the real bill.
EVOA sizes every system together from the building’s bills and site, has each trade designed on industry software, and combines it into one proposal. Then vetted companies bid.
Projects arrive screened for payback with the design already done. Partners bid on their trade only, at their own price, and pay only when they win.
Owners never pay. Partners pay no monthly fee, just 5% of the final project on signed work. Wins are verified through EVOA signing records, owner check ins, permit searches and audit rights.
Revenue in the planning scenario
100 leads a month, a 10% sign rate, 3 trades won per signed project at about $100,000 each
| Signed projects a month | 10 |
| Trade contracts won | 30 |
| Signed work | $3,000,000 |
| EVOA at 5%, per month | $150,000 |
Cost per lead
About $75,685 a month at 100 leads, before company overhead
| Design and review labor | $434 |
| Marketing | $200 |
| Design platforms | $113 |
| Data | $5 |
| Operations | $4 |
| Per lead | $757 |
Design software seats and utility data access to run the first test projects end to end.
Prove the model in Western New York: 25 paying partners, 25 owner leads a month, first signed projects.
Small team, automation that cuts designer time, all of New York.
Expansion to new states with sales and partner success teams.
What the pre-seed pays for
What it proves before the seed round
The plan targets a $1B valuation by the end of year 7. This is the internal model behind the round, shown with its assumptions.
DJ Ruszkowski, CEO and co-founder. Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo. WNY Prosperity Fellow and a past Dream It. Do It. intern.
Max Clarke, financial strategy and compliance. M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo.
Starting in Western New York with commercial property owners, investors and developers who want a lower monthly utility bill. Partners are companies in the six trades, with contract designers and industry software doing the design work.
EVOA is in development. All figures are planning numbers from EVOA’s internal model, not a forecast, and the 5% fee has not yet been tested with partners. Letters of intent are non-binding. Nothing here is an offer to sell securities.
Our team
Two engineers from the University at Buffalo building the easiest way for a commercial building to lower its utility bill.
CEO and co-founder
DJ studies Environmental Engineering at the University at Buffalo, where he focuses on where environmental systems, sustainability and technology meet. He is a WNY Prosperity Fellow and a past Dream It. Do It. intern. As CEO, he leads product vision, strategy and long term direction.
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Co-founder, financial strategy and compliance
Max holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, and earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UB in August 2024. As a co-founder, he shapes EVOA’s financial strategy, keeps it compliant and supports the long term sustainability of the work.
LinkedInWhy we built EVOA
Where we started
“How can we make energy cheaper?”
Where we landed
“How can we make energy more accessible?”
Most energy systems are already priced about as low as they can go. What stops building owners is getting to them: chasing a quote per system, or paying a consultant. So EVOA does that work up front, for free, and hands owners one plan with every option.
Book a time with DJ and the team, or write to hello@evoasystems.com.
In development · Starting in Western New York
Learn
Short, plain explainers on each system EVOA plans, and why sizing them together saves more than any one of them alone.
Have a question about this?
Case studies
Projects EVOA is planning in Western New York. Write ups and results are added as each one finishes.
Camp Merz, a Boy Scout camp on Chautauqua Lake in Mayville, New York. Write up and results to follow.
Commercial project in Buffalo, New York. Photos and results to follow.
It’s free, and Evan can start it in about a minute.
Privacy
What we collect, why, and the choices you have. Last updated November 7, 2026.
EVOA Systems is based in Buffalo, New York. This policy covers evoasystems.com and the forms and chat on it. Questions go to hello@evoasystems.com.
What you send us. When you use a form or the chat, we collect what you enter. Depending on the form, that can include your name, email, phone number, company, the building address, building type, whether you own or rent it, what you pay for energy, a utility bill you upload, your question or message, a partner application, or a non-binding letter of intent.
What is collected automatically. Our hosting provider records basic technical information such as your IP address and browser. We keep the IP address with a free plan request so we can limit repeat requests and stop misuse of the form. The site uses a Google Ads tag, which uses cookies to measure visits and which ads lead to a request.
We do not sell your information.
A utility bill you upload is deleted automatically 14 days after your proposal is delivered. The cost figures from it stay on the record. We keep other information for as long as we need it for the purposes above, or until you ask us to delete it.
This site is for building owners, companies and investors. It is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
If we change this policy, we will update it here and change the date at the top.