Customer Story OWE
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Powering Growth: How Our World Energy Scales Operations with Tape
Our World Energy (OWE) grew on Podio as its operational backbone, becoming one of America’s fastest-growing solar companies. In 2024, OWE migrated more than one million records to Tape with Zooli Web Solutions’ migration tool. Today, over 1,500 team members run on Tape, scaling fast and delivering renewable energy projects at pace.
In numbers
Users
total / active
1500+
Automation runs
avg / day
45,000+
Calculation speed
avg / user viewport
< 1 sec
Insights from
Caleb Antonucci
Founder & CEO
Colten Warnock
Director of Information and Technology
Dillard Blanton
Director of Process Improvement
Jacquelyn May
Zooli Web Solutions
Use cases
Company-wide use, Knowledge Base, Project Management, CRM
Centralizing work in one place
Founded in 2016, Our World Energy (OWE) began as a bridge between solar professionals and homeowners seeking affordable energy independence. Today, OWE stand at the forefront of the industry by designing and installing state-of-the-art, locally manufactured solar that empower homeowners with true ownership of their energy future.
Most fast-growing companies slow down as they scale. They add specialized tools that create silos, more meetings to coordinate across those silos, and extra processes to manage the complexity they've created. OWE did the opposite.
For a solar company scaling into one of the fastest in America, every internal meeting about “process” means less time on installing panels or helping customers. Every tool that requires context-switching adds cognitive overhead the team can’t afford.
OWE started with Podio because its flexibility let them digitize their unique processes. Over time, Podio has evolved into a lean operating system - a single space where all knowledge lives and work is done.
Caleb Antonucci
Founder & CEO
"What matters most is giving our builders time to focus on building - not getting stuck in back-to-back meetings or becoming managers of work."
"What matters most is giving our builders time to focus on building - not getting stuck in back-to-back meetings or becoming managers of work."
Caleb Antonucci
Founder & CEO
Each company has its own way and unique processes drive success
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Each company has its own way and unique processes drive success
OWE handles everything for the solar installation from the very first site survey to power on, so customers can simply watch their home go solar stress-free.
From the moment a homeowner expresses interest, OWE takes over with its unique 3×3 solar installation process. Refined and improved over years, it breaks the journey into three phases: preparation, construction, and final inspections. Each phase has three steps, creating nine clear milestones in total.
Behind the scenes, countless details keep OWE’s customer-first mission running, covering schedules, approvals, reminders, reports, and team collaboration.
By 2024, OWE’s Podio setup had scaled to over a million data records, tens of thousands of calculation field executions, and a massive number of automation runs powering installations, customer service, sales, and HR.
“By automating the routine work, we can turn complex operations into simple steps, enabling faster, more confident decisions.”
Colten Warnock
Director of Information and Technology
“By automating the routine work, we can turn complex operations into simple steps, enabling faster, more confident decisions.”
Colten Warnock
Director of Information and Technology
Migration from Podio to Tape
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Migration from Podio to Tape
Migrating from one platform to another can feel challenging, and for OWE, it was a huge decision for their business.
OWE saw in Tape what teams had been asking for - proven stability and performance at scale, modern design, continuous innovation with features like dashboards, and developer tools that make building easier. That combination played a major role in their decision to move from Podio to Tape.
To make the migration more seamless, OWE partnered with Jacquelyn May, a longtime Podio and Tape expert. Together with her team at Zooli Web Solutions, she developed a custom migration tool that made the following possible for OWE:
- Recreated all Podio workspaces and apps in Tape
- Set up user accounts in Tape with Podio usernames
- Migrated over 1 million records with more than 50 million field values
- Connected more than 5 million relations between apps
- Rebuilt 1,500 calculation fields, including scripts
- Transferred over 1 million files and images for a total of 260GB of data, attached to their original records
Rebuilding automations during the migration became an opportunity to remove complexity, gain clarity, and speed up workflows. And because Tape and Podio use a similar structure and terminology, OWE was able to migrate its entire setup and data in just one month with support from the migration tool and OWE’s IT teams, led by Colten Warnock, Director of Information and Technology, and Dillard Blanton, Director of Process Improvement. A comparable move to another platform would have taken many months, requiring OWE to adapt its processes and retrain every user.
With nothing new to learn, the migration had virtually no impact on operations. From one day to the next, all teams were working in Tape. Projects and daily work continued without interruption, and adoption was immediate – the same features, apps, and processes, only now in Tape.
Dillard Blanton
Director of Process Improvement
“The migration tool was key. But what really made the difference was working with Jacquelyn May. We solved challenges together, and along the way we built a stronger, better system.”
“The migration tool was key. But what really made the difference was working with Jacquelyn May. We solved challenges together, and along the way we built a stronger, better system.”
Dillard Blanton
Director of Process Improvement
A work platform that scales - clear and flexible
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A work platform that scales - clear and flexible
Nine months after moving to Tape, OWE’s operations reached a new scale. The entire business runs 24/7 on Tape, and the numbers tell the story:
- 2M+ records across 500+ apps
- 5M+ field values processed across core database apps
- 10,000+ saved team and private views
- 8,000+ charts and reports across dashboards
- 120,000+ monthly user sessions longer than 10 minutes
- 250,000+ of weekly API calls connecting external tools
- 1,500+ automations running 45,000+ times a day on average
- 1.5M daily calculation executions with average results under a second in the user’s viewport
It all happens without slowing teams down. The reason is balance between standardization and customization.
- Standardization keeps teams aligned. Workspaces contain apps, database apps contain records. Always the same structure. Comments or views work the same everywhere, so once learned, it’s familiar across the whole platform.
- Customization keeps teams agile. Workflows adapt in minutes with drag-and-drop, so every team can shape processes to fit the way they work.
The result: a platform that scales with OWE - structured for growth and flexible for every team.
“Keeping people in the loop as we’ve grown so fast is really difficult, but Tape helps everyone get the latest updates and context of what’s going on across the company instantly.”
Caleb Antonucci
Founder & CEO
“Keeping people in the loop as we’ve grown so fast is really difficult, but Tape helps everyone get the latest updates and context of what’s going on across the company instantly.”
Caleb Antonucci
Founder & CEO
A proven foundation for the future
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A proven foundation for the future
Every organization in Tape runs on modern, enterprise-grade architecture. That foundation gives OWE the confidence to expand into new regions and take on more projects as they grow. A few key factors have already proven to be essential:
- Org-centric architecture. Each organization runs in its own isolated environment. For OWE this ensures reliable performance at scale with no ‘bad neighbors’ from other organizations creating heavy load.
- Smart calculation prioritization. On heavy load, recalculations go into a single queue with smart rules. Events triggered by user edits, imports, or automations run first, while events triggered by admin updates to calculation field scripts follow after.
- Dedicated resources. Extra capacity via dedicated servers increases throughput, so more automations and calculations run in parallel.
- Continuous optimization. Tape monitors performance in every organization and improves individual usage patterns whenever needed.
Beyond the tech, Tape supports also growth in many ways. Role-based onboarding is just one of them: admins, members, and guests get only the guidance that’s relevant to them. Onboarding emails see open rates over 90%, helping new users reach their first success in Tape faster.
With Tape as its work operating system, OWE grows with confidence. Scale and reliability are part of the foundation, so the team can focus on what matters most: powering the world with renewable energy.
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