Case Study: GeoCF achieves rapid identification of high‑value solar sites and faster time‑to‑market with RStudio

GeoCF - Customer Case Study

GeoCF LLC, a Butler Firm spinoff behind Smart Power Maps, builds a platform that evaluates tens of thousands of potential ground‑mounted solar projects and manages sites through development. At launch the company faced a resource challenge: co‑founder and sole developer Chris Holcomb had to act as data analyst, database architect, web programmer and designer, and needed a software stack that could turn analyst work into an easy‑to‑use web application.

They adopted the RStudio ecosystem—R with packages like shiny, dplyr and leaflet and Shiny Server Pro for production—to rapidly build and deploy the application. The result: developers, investors and engineers can quickly find and screen high‑value sites, run in‑depth analyses without extra training, and manage projects end‑to‑end from a single tool, accelerating go‑to‑market timelines while GeoCF grows and secured a $750,000 DOE SunShot award.

GeoCF

Chris Holcomb

Co-founder and CTO