Checko Is Live

A few months ago I wrote Almost There, a post about carrying two products to the finish line without being able to say what they were. I promised the next one would be the reveal.

Here’s the first half of it: Checko™ is officially live.

What it is

Checko is energy audit software built at EnerNext. It’s for the people who write energy audits for a living: energy managers (EGE), ESCos, consulting firms, and companies that have to do one.

In Italy, large companies and energy-intensive businesses must carry out an energy audit every four years under Art. 8 of D.Lgs. 102/2014. If you’ve never seen one, it’s a serious piece of work. Bills, measurements, equipment lists, site visits, calculations, indicators, interventions, and finally a technical report and the ENEA submission. A lot of it lives in spreadsheets, folders and email threads.

Checko puts all of that in one place. The tagline says it best:

La diagnosi energetica, dalla bolletta alla relazione tecnica. The energy audit, from the bill to the technical report.

Twelve chapters, one audit

The whole product is built around one idea: an audit is a sequence of chapters, and each one should flow into the next.

1. General information: site details, ATECO codes, shifts, working weeks
2. Planning: activities, site visits and deadlines on an exportable Gantt chart
3. Consumption: figures per energy carrier, from bills and measurements
4. Documents: invoices, datasheets and photos, archived automatically
5. Equipment inventory: every energy-using piece of equipment, grouped into custom categories
6. Floor plan: equipment placed on the plan so you can find it quickly
7. Energy model: a guided calculation method
8. Dashboard: charts and tables for analysis and comparison
9. Monitoring: monitored and estimated loads, plus field measurement tools
10. Energy performance: IPG and IPS indicators with their own drivers and units
11. Interventions: savings and payback time for each measure
12. Reports: the ENEA summary and an automatically generated technical report

Fill in the data once, and everything downstream updates on its own.

The parts I’m proud of

Some features look small on a landing page and took weeks to get right:

• AI bill reading. Drop in electricity and gas bills, and Checko pulls out consumption and costs on its own. Anyone who has typed in a year’s worth of bills by hand knows why that matters.
• Load curves. Upload quarter-hourly electricity data and Checko rebuilds load and power profiles, with charts you can actually explore.
• Bulk import. Equipment comes in from Excel templates, not one form field at a time.
• Block-based report. The technical report is made of blocks you can rearrange. Charts and tables update when the data changes, so the report never drifts away from the numbers.
• Archive and benchmark. Every client’s history stays in one place, with indicators compared against market data.
• Built for site visits. It’s a cloud web app that works on a tablet, so you can bring it with you on site instead of writing notes to type up later.

Working together, at the same time

If there’s one thing I’d put at the center of Checko, it’s this: the whole team works on the same audit, at the same time.

An energy audit is never a one-person job. Someone is on site cataloguing equipment. Someone else is loading bills and load curves. Someone is already drafting interventions and the report. Usually that means one master spreadsheet, a dozen copies of it, and an afternoon spent merging them.

In Checko there is no “your version” and “my version”. There is one audit. Each person works on their own chapter, in parallel, and everything they add flows straight into the dashboard, the indicators and the report. Projects, history, templates and deadlines are shared across the team, so nobody waits for anyone else to finish before starting.

That’s where the real time saving is. Not in doing each step faster, but in doing them all at once.

What it isn’t

One thing we were careful about from day one: Checko doesn’t replace the energy professional.

It takes on the data collection and the repetitive work. The analysis and the technical decisions stay with the person who signs the audit. That’s not a disclaimer. It’s how the product is designed. The goal was never to automate expertise. The goal was to stop burying it under copy-paste.

Data stays in the EU on AWS, with periodic backups and logged access, and you can export everything at any time. If you trust a tool with your clients’ data, you should be able to leave with it.

Why now

The ENEA deadline is December 5th. If you’re an EGE or an ESCo, you already know what the next few weeks look like.

That’s exactly the moment Checko was built for.

What’s next

Launch day is a starting line, not a finish line. Here’s what we’re working on next:

• A mobile app. The site visit is where the data is born, so Checko should live in your pocket too, not just on a tablet.
• Civil audits. Today Checko is built around audits for companies. Next, it opens up to civil and residential buildings as well.
• Field monitoring integration. Connecting Checko directly to on-site monitoring instruments, so measurements flow in on their own instead of being exported and uploaded by hand.

Shipping something is always a little vulnerable. You stop polishing it in private, and real people start using it on real work.

It’s out there now. If you write energy audits, book a 30-minute demo and see how it fits the way you work.

One down. One to go.