Every sales role says the same thing: Light is not a typical software sale, and each deal needs a business case for a company that never thought of selling electricity. Light already has the inputs: "$2k average brand-affiliated spend per year", "#1 most cross-sold product for most partners", six days to first enrollment at Meter.
First action
Agree the attach-rate and spend assumptions with Business Operations, using real partner ranges.
How to measure it
Signed partners from deals using the calculator
- Now
- –
- Target
- 2x the rate without it
- By
- end of quarter
Steps
Set the assumptions
Attach rate and spend ranges per vertical from real partners.
Business Operations lead 2 days
Build the calculator
A sheet first, a web page second.
Marketing Lead 2 days
Write the one-pager
Inputs, outputs, how launch works, the Meter six-day quote.
Marketing Lead 1 day
Test with sellers
Run two live deals through it.
Enterprise Sales lead 1 week
Put it on the site
Gated by a short form for each vertical.
Marketing Lead 2 days
Track use
Sent, opened, signed.
Marketing Lead weekly
Why it works
A simple calculator for solar installers, multifamily operators, EV makers and home-services companies: customers per year, expected attach rate, average annual spend and Light's revenue share in, new annual revenue and lifetime value out, with a one-page PDF the rep sends after the first call.
The first marketer is asked to translate a complex business model into compelling positioning, and the enterprise and home electrification sellers need it in every deal. A number the buyer can take to their CFO moves a novel idea into a budget line.
Ready to use
ChecklistBusiness-case inputs
[ ] Customers you sign or move in per year [ ] Share likely to take an electricity plan at that moment [ ] Average annual electricity spend per customer [ ] Your revenue share per customer [ ] Months to launch (Meter: six days to first enrollment) [ ] Customer support handled by Light (15-second average response) = New annual revenue, lifetime value, and payback on launch effort
Risks and how to handle them
Partners treat estimates as promises
Label every output as an estimate and show the assumptions next to it.
Evidence
- Your websiteHomepage: "We enable any company to be a power company"; Light handles "risk, regulatory compliance, payments, and customer support" so partners sell their own branded electricity plans through a prebuilt UI or an API; stats: "30% of US solar sales are powered by partners", "300k+ rental units", "2 of 5 top automakers", "#1 most cross-sold product for most partners", "$2k average brand-affiliated spend per year", "8m+ eligible households".Source
- Your websiteTestimonials: Meter's founder, "Six days. That's all it took from signing with Light to enrolling our first customer"; Palmetto's SVP of Strategy & Operations on moving "from affiliate offers to an inclusive, on-brand and on-message consumer offering"; partner logos include Palmetto, GoodLeap, Ownwell, Otovo, ElevateOS and Emporia.Source
- HiringSales roles: Enterprise sales to "the largest companies in the world" with a bespoke business case ("not a typical enterprise software sale"); Home Electrification sales across solar and storage, HVAC, smart panels, home energy management and demand response; Light's first Business Development lead for data centers, building retail supply for neighborhoods and "household electricity benefits written into community benefit agreements".Source
- HiringMarketing Lead (founding marketer): "make embedded electricity feel inevitable and establish Light as the company defining the category"; a hands-on generalist across positioning, content and collateral, launches, partner marketing, PR and communications, social and earned media, and field and events; Light is "investing aggressively in growth".Source
- HiringPartner Growth: "own partner growth from implementation through growth", earn executive access at partners and build "the lifecycle intelligence that turns our intuitions about what's working into something we can measure"; Business Operations will "move enrollment and revenue across our partner portfolio", shape pricing and chart new states and verticals.Source