Everything people ask before they start.
13 answers, in the order they usually come up. Every one of them is specific on purpose.
What kinds of projects can Norvis run?
Norvis connects project planning and ongoing operations: schedules, field records, commercial work and evidence. It is built for renewable infrastructure teams, with a shared project foundation that also supports other work with tasks, dependencies and money. Arka is the solar vertical available today. Wind and storage are being built; green hydrogen and bagasse cogeneration remain on the roadmap.
Who is behind Norvis?
Norvis, an Indian company building project systems for the energy transition. The name comes from norma, the carpenter’s square, and the brand line is the working rule: run it tight. Today Norvis is one founder and an AI engineering system working under written protocols, and we would rather say that than perform a bigger company. The application is Norvis; Arka, the solar EPC vertical of Norvis, is the first vertical to ship.
What does it cost, and what does a bigger plan actually buy?
Plus is ₹15,000 a month, Pro is ₹28,000, Enterprise starts at ₹65,000 and is invoiced on agreed terms. The plans differ in one number: how many projects can run at once. Plus allows 4 active projects, Pro allows 12, which is three times the projects for under twice the price, Enterprise is unlimited, and a completed or cancelled project frees its slot. Room for more can be added on Plus or Pro: 3 more projects for ₹5,000 a month, or 8 more for ₹10,000 a month. There is no seat cost on any plan. One-time onboarding and data import assistance applies when a first paid plan starts: ₹60,000 on Plus and ₹1,12,000 on Pro, the same on monthly and annual billing. Every feature ships on every plan.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes. Every new organisation gets seven days of the full product from the day it is created, and signing up asks for no card. Payment details enter the picture only when you choose a plan, and checkout is handled by Razorpay.
How is my data kept separate from other companies?
In the database itself, not only in our application code. Every record carries its organisation, and the database refuses to return another organisation’s rows whatever the application asks for. A browser session has no direct write access to the database at all: every write passes through a signed-in server route, and the route takes your organisation from your session, never from anything the request claims.
What happens when I issue an invoice?
Issuing is a one-way act. The invoice number comes from a gapless series for your organisation and financial year, the tax point is stamped, and the document freezes. After that moment its figures and wording cannot be changed by any path, including our own administrative access, because the refusal lives in the database rather than in application code. Corrections happen through a credit note that carries its own number and names the original, which is what section 34 of the CGST Act expects.
How are GST and TDS handled?
The engine suggests the statutory defaults, 18 percent as the standard services rate and tax deducted at source on contractor payments at 1 percent for individuals and 2 percent for companies, and the rate actually applied is stored on each transaction. A solar EPC works contract has no single rate: renewable energy devices are taxed at 5 percent and services at 18, and where the two are supplied together the value divides seventy to thirty, so such a contract is billed as two lines rather than one. Whether a supply splits into CGST and SGST or goes as IGST is decided by place of supply, and that decision is kept on the invoice at the moment it is issued, so a bill raised last year still explains itself this year.
Can my client follow progress without an account?
Yes. You can issue a read-only portal link that shows phases, milestones, progress and invoice status. It works on a token rather than a login, it is rate-limited, and you can revoke it at any time. A revoked or expired link answers as if it never existed.
How do site photographs prove anything?
Norvis retains the server receipt time and a cryptographic hash of the exact stored bytes, so a photograph can be checked against its fingerprint. The record has no edit path afterwards. Site photographs can be taken with the camera or imported from a photo library. An imported photograph does not prove the original capture time or location. Attendance photographs are captured with the camera rather than imported from a library.
Is there an API?
Yes, a REST API with per-organisation keys. Keys carry read or write scope, are stored only as hashes on our side, and are rate-limited individually. The API describes itself with an OpenAPI document, and creates accept an idempotency key so a retried sync cannot double-post. Outbound webhooks are signed with HMAC-SHA256 so your receiver can tell our deliveries from anyone else’s.
Can I get my data out?
Any time. An admin can download the organisation’s projects, tasks, risks, invoices and dependencies as one file from Settings, and the export itself is recorded. Project plans also export to Excel, and invoices and credit notes export as PDF documents.
What happens if I cancel?
You keep full access until the end of the period you have paid for. After it lapses the account locks, but nothing is deleted: choosing a plan again reopens the same organisation with everything intact. If you are leaving for good, take the export before the period ends.
Why does the site say Norvis in one place and Arka in another?
Norvis is the project and operations platform and the company behind it. Arka is the solar vertical within that platform, available today. You sign in to Norvis; the solar physics, the yield and the layout, are Arka’s.
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