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Deployment Options
- Web Browser (Cloud - Based)
Good Option For
- Freelancers (1 person company)
- Microbusiness (2-10 people)
- Small Business (11-50 people)
- Medium Business (51-250 people)
- Large Business (250+ people)
Deep dive
Core Features
Ara is primarily a retrofit planning and decision-support platform. It provides an early portfolio-wide assessment, after which Domna can support users with detailed surveys, design, funding, procurement and project delivery. Key capabilities include:
Remote Property Assessment: Users can assess housing portfolios using property postcodes, with Domna reporting 97% modelling accuracy and access to more than four billion data points.
Retrofit Recommendations: The software identifies potential measures such as insulation, heating controls, heat pumps and solar PV and combines them into whole-house retrofit packages.
EPC & SAP Modelling: Proprietary machine-learning models estimate post-retrofit EPC ratings and SAP improvements, helping users understand how proposed measures could affect building energy performance.
Cost & Savings Analysis: Assessments provide indicative retrofit costs alongside expected energy consumption, energy-bill savings and the trades and time potentially required to complete the work.
Carbon Reduction Analysis: Ara estimates the CO₂ reductions associated with proposed retrofit packages, allowing carbon outcomes to be considered alongside energy performance and financial costs.
Scenario & Portfolio Planning: Users can compare retrofit options by cost, carbon and compliance and receive asset-level plans across portfolios ranging from a few properties to thousands of homes.
Closing Insights
Ara is developed by Domna Group, a UK retrofit and climate-technology business that combines software with assessment, design, funding and project-delivery services. This wider delivery capability is important to understanding the platform: Ara provides the initial intelligence for deciding what to retrofit, while Domna can subsequently arrange PAS 2035-compliant surveys, develop costed plans, secure funding, procure accredited installers and coordinate delivery.
Domna works with housing providers and public bodies including Stonewater, Nottingham Community Housing Association (NCHA) and Shropshire Council. For Stonewater, Domna completed 786 retrofit assessments and 546 retrofit designs under a programme intended to improve energy efficiency and support housing-stock decarbonization. These engagements represent Domna's broader technology-supported retrofit offering rather than necessarily software-only deployments.
For organizations considering large housing portfolios, Ara is particularly relevant at the early investment-planning stage, when rapid screening can help determine which properties and measures warrant more detailed assessment. Prospective users are invited to contact Domna to discuss portfolio assessment and subsequent retrofit delivery requirements.