AO Prospect

RATING:

4.8

(10)
Overview

About AO Prospect

AO Prospect is an advanced software designed to simplify the land siting and injection study processes while streamlining solar development projects. With its powerful search capabilities, AO Prospect allows teams to locate the best sites for new projects in just minutes, with land parcels near substations or transmission lines. The software automates constraint analysis, providing highly accurate buildable acreage and allowing managers to sort and rate parcels based on several criteria, including slope, flood, wetlands, trees, bedrock depth, infrastructure, conservation easements, critical habitats, and public lands. Administrators can track project progress with ease, collaborate with teams, and generate relevant reports, such as KMLs, Shapefiles, and CSV. With the ...

AO Prospect Pricing

Starting price: 

$600.00 per month

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Not Available

AO Prospect allows users to find parcels near substations, and automate constraint mapping requirements to determine the parcels buildable area.
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AO Prospect Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for AO Prospect

10 Reviews

User Profile

Jonathan

Verified reviewer

Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2023

Powerful tool with excellent customer support!

PROS

AO has become our primary tool for quickly screening-out parcels that don't meet our criteria for buildable area, etc. The customer support we've received has been fantastic, as the AO team has helped us to build a custom solution to interface with our Salesforce CRM to track status of different opportunities. There are many small details that make the software more intuitive and useable, including opacity sliders and a deep bench of default layers available.

CONS

For particularly large projects with 500+ parcels, AO tends to slow down quite significantly which can make it difficult to navigate within the project or run buildable area analyses.

Michael

Renewables & Environment, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Great software. Can run a little slow on occasion but overall, very satisfied

Great experience. Always quick to respond.

PROS

It limits how much research I have to do. There is an abundance of layers. If there isn't a layer I am looking for, I can ask for it and it gets added.

CONS

On occasion, the software can run very slow. Not often but it happens. Also, the printable maps could be better, more customizable.

Reason for choosing AO Prospect

Much better software overall. Easier to use. Better layer selection

Reasons for switching to AO Prospect

Not a good software. Lots of issues

Nicholas

Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2023

Cenergy Power AO analysis

AO Prospect has made our company's site search and analysis processes much more robust. It is easy to learn so new team members can quickly get up to speed.

PROS

The ability to add new feature layers and customize templates for data work and export is very useful.

CONS

There are some default layers which cannot be turned off or modified, this causes unnecessary clutter. It is not possible to create exported images with a legend.

Derrick

Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2023

Anderson Optimization is vital for the success of my team!

I really enjoy the product because nothing in the industry compares to it. It is easy to use, and our team does understand that mapping software are very delicate and difficult to produce. AO has come a long way and has a very good support and tech team to answer any questions or resolve any issues we have in a timely manner. All of the data is very important to us, and we appreciate AO's discretion in our company produced data imported into our own layers.

PROS

The functionality and interface of AO is very easy to use. I have trained a couple of new employees on how to use AO to generate parcel lists efficiently and the ease of the product makes my job easier. Exporting the data that pertains to the parcel list is extremely vital, and AO's export functionality is seamless and easy to use.

CONS

Exporting parcel images functionality has not worked for quite some time and has not been able to be replicated on AO's end even though it is happening on multiple computers and accounts on our end. Also, exported parcel images come in individual zip files which is time consuming when I am working on a parcel list of 200 or more because I have to create a new folder, unzip the export and drage the images into the new folder. The colors of some layers seem to be the same shade if not the same color which can be time consuming to verify.

Katie

Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

The best Site Finding tool out there

We have been sooo happy with how AO has taken every suggestion or request that we made and made those things happen, quickly. We were also a small family company when we started working together years ago and their culture is the same as ours.

PROS

All features contribute to the end product and are useful, but the accuracy of all of the information and the constant updates to ensure accuracy is most impactful for us. What I like the most is how easy and fast it is to use and we can customize our user profile and setting to have the exports exactly how we want them.

CONS

The only negative that I think someone might have, and this doesn't apply to us, is that you don't have access to every state at once. Maybe that has changed or maybe that's available, but costly? Other than that, no negatives for us!

John

Renewables & Environment, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2023

Great initial constraints and project development software

AO has been great at reviewing prospective parcels and determining if you have a potential project.

PROS

The ability to do initial constraints and project development

CONS

The 10 meter topography vs 1 meter on Lidar

Lesley

Renewables & Environment, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Anderson is the BEST!

I love Anderson and use it everyday. I would make it our primary GIS resource if the decision were mine alone to make.

PROS

I love the quick ease of use in quickly being able to build, load, and analyze maps for my work in prospecting .

CONS

I wish there was a function to pull in all of one landowner's parcels and add them to my map.

Brett

Renewables & Environment, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2023

Great product, needs more functionality

Great

PROS

Overall great UI, automates lots of basic GIS needs

CONS

Sometimes very slow or have to refresh which can be frustrating. Needs more maps integration (power plant retirements, etc). I have given lots of feedback to the team via email

Kevin

Renewables & Environment, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

Solar GIS

Fantastic.

PROS

The ease of use and power of the product to prospect for land parcels for my solar developers is exceptional. This coupled with the CS team at AO makes for a great business relationship.

CONS

This is probably on us on needing a more powerful computer but running the system on my laptop can cause it to crash when running other applications at the same time.

Darryl

Renewables & Environment, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2023

AO Review

PROS

Great wat to prospect with an app that has everything centralized.

CONS

At first navigating through various functions can be a little confusing but it was a learning curve.

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