327 funding routes across ten Canadian provinces, nine US states, Washington DC and both federal levels — narrowed to your building on a map, priced against its own consumption, and kept as a shortlist you can share. Then our team does the part that actually takes the time: the applications.
No hardware, no meter data · An address and a utility bill are enough to start
Finding the money is the part software is good at. Winning it is the part an engineering team is good at. Q-IF is the first half; Quwa is the second.
You get an account and your buildings go in — address, floor area, and last year's electricity and gas. That is the whole setup. No sub-meters, no audit required first.
You, oncePick the province or state on the map, pick the building type, and the routes that apply come up — filtered by upgrade, energy type, status and administrator. Shortlist what fits and see what it is worth against your building's own consumption.
You, in minutesSend us the shortlist. We confirm eligibility against the current programme terms, handle pre-approval, assemble the technical backup and file the applications — including the ones that have to be approved before a single piece of equipment is bought.
UsThe measures behind the money are the ones we design and commission anyway: controls, heat recovery, lighting, envelope, heat pumps. The incentive pays down the capital and the savings keep going after it is spent.
UsEvery route in Q-IF was researched by hand and carries its administrator, its status, what it pays for, what decides eligibility, and the thing that goes wrong if the conditions are not read. It is navigation, not advice — and every card links to the official programme page.
Canada is complete across all ten provinces plus CMHC and the federal routes. The United States covers New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia, Illinois and Washington DC, with the federal credits and deductions alongside. More states are added as the work takes us there.
Energy use intensity in GJ/m² and carbon intensity in tCO₂e/m² — the same units, and the same 0.94 GJ/m² median benchmark, that Quwa's energy audit reports use. A building reads the same here as it does on the page you were handed.
Enter floor area and annual consumption and the platform prices the shortlist against it — as a range, with the rate each programme was multiplied by, the assumed savings, and the programmes that publish no rate at all shown separately rather than counted as zero.
Buildings group into portfolios with their photographs, baselines and intensities in one place. Save a search across several provinces and come back to it. Share a shortlist with a colleague as an email that is already written.
A finder that overstates is worse than no finder, because the number gets into a budget. So, plainly:
Amounts, deadlines and eligibility move, and many programmes cannot be stacked on the same measure. Every figure is a screening range to be confirmed with the administrator before a project commitment.
Savings are assumed from typical retrofit ranges. A real number comes from an audit, and the same measure in two buildings can differ by a factor of three.
Most worthwhile programmes need pre-approval before equipment is purchased, and technical backup a form cannot generate. That is the work we do for you.
Do we need metering or an audit before we start?
No. An address, a floor area and last year's electricity and gas bills are enough to place a building and price a shortlist. An audit sharpens the savings estimate; it is not a prerequisite for finding the funding.
Is this only for buildings you already work on?
No. Q-IF is offered to clients as a service in its own right. If the shortlist leads to work, we are glad to do it — but the platform is useful whether or not it does.
How current is the catalogue?
Each route carries the date it was last checked and its current status — open, limited, paused, closed or upcoming. Programmes that have closed stay in the catalogue, marked, so a route you remember is not silently missing.
Does it cover the United States properly?
It covers nine states, DC and the federal credits with the same depth as the Canadian routes — eligibility, pre-approval, stacking restrictions and service territory. It is not a national database, and it does not pretend to be one.