Your pod. Their missions.
We install and run the drone base. Your flights come first, and every nearby mission it serves pays you.
Most of the week, a pod sits still
Your own inspections will never fill a whole week, and that is the point. Everyone else in this category sells one system to one customer for one site, so when it is idle it is simply idle. The time you are not using is the part that pays.
- A busy day of your own missions
- Idle, and available to the network
A drone in service flies two to three hours in a busy day. That is the industry benchmark, and the rest of the day is the part nobody has been able to sell.
Three ways it earns its place
Two of them start the day it is installed. The third depends on how much demand is around you.
Inspections you stop paying for
Every survey, roof check and thermal pass you currently buy in becomes something already on your site.
Inspections you never did
Frequency stops being a budget question, so the things you skipped get looked at. One pod earns twice: survey by day, perimeter patrol by night, off the same hardware.
Missions flown for others
Every third-party flight from your pod pays you a fee. We bring the customers, the operators and the paperwork.
How the arrangement works
Four things move, and they do different jobs. We would rather set them out plainly than have you find them in a contract.
You lease the pod
A fixed monthly figure over an agreed term. It covers the hardware, the platform, the operation around it, and the months of airspace work your site needs before anything can fly.
Your own flying is not metered
No charge per flight, no per-minute rate, no approval to ask for. Fly your own site as often as it is worth flying.
Your missions come first, always
The pod sits on your ground and your programme has first call on it, every time. Sharing is a switch you own, it is off until you turn it on, and you set what your pod may be used for.
You take a share of everyone else’s
Every minute a third party flies from your pod earns you a share of it. That is the trade, and it is the whole reason the pod is worth putting on your site rather than in a cupboard.
Having one, without operating it
Hardware is the easy half. The reason most on-site drone programmes stall is everything around it.
Up front
Running your own drone programme
Buy a drone, train and licence a pilot, build the procedures.
Hosting a pod
A fixed monthly lease. The pod, the operation and the approval come with it.
Running it
Running your own drone programme
Someone on your payroll has a second job they did not ask for.
Hosting a pod
We operate, maintain and supervise it. You request missions.
Using it
Running your own drone programme
Flights cost you a person and half a day, so you fly less than you should.
Hosting a pod
Fly your own site as often as you want. Your own missions carry no charge per flight.
The other six days
Running your own drone programme
The kit sits in a cupboard depreciating.
Hosting a pod
It flies for nearby customers, and you take a share of every minute.
When it breaks
Running your own drone programme
Yours to diagnose, ship and chase.
Hosting a pod
Maintenance and replacement are part of the arrangement.
Control
Running your own drone programme
Total, and entirely your problem.
Hosting a pod
Total, and none of the problem. Turn sharing off whenever you want.
What a site actually needs
Worth checking before anyone gets excited. If your site does not suit one, we would rather say so early.
A clear footprint
A patch of secure ground or flat roof with open sky above it and no obstruction over the take-off area.
Power
A standard mains supply within reach. The pod charges the aircraft between missions.
Connectivity
Mobile coverage or a wired connection. Missions are supervised remotely, so the link matters.
Access
Occasional site access for maintenance, arranged with you rather than sprung on you.
Airspace that works
We assess the surrounding airspace before anything is installed. Some sites are straightforward, some are not, and we will tell you which you are.
A reason to fly
The pod pays best where something genuinely needs looking at repeatedly. We will say so if your site is not one.
Sites that suit it
Grid and substation operators
Conductors, insulators, substation plant and vegetation, plus a nightly compound patrol off the same pod.
Solar and renewables
Radiometric thermal survey on your own array, theft and cable patrol after dark, and the most straightforward airspace of any site on our list.
Telecom tower portfolios
Structure and mount inspection that currently needs a climber or a helicopter, on a portfolio that keeps needing it.
Ports, terminals and heavy industry
Constant survey need on your own quays and yards, plus a catchment of operators around you.
Mining, quarries and aggregates
Stockpile volumetrics, haul roads and highwall on ground you already control, with straightforward airspace above it.
Contract security providers
Your own sites and your clients’ sites, verified from the air instead of by a forty minute drive.
Questions worth asking
Do I have to let other people use it?
No. Sharing is a switch you control, not a condition of hosting one. Turn it off and you simply have a pod that flies your own site.
Who flies the missions?
We do. Qualified operators supervise every flight, whether it is yours or a third party. You never need a pilot on staff.
Can I block out times?
Yes. Your own missions take priority, and you can reserve windows where nothing else is scheduled.
What does hosting cost?
A fixed monthly lease over an agreed term, which covers the pod, the platform, the operation around it and the airspace clearance for your site. Your own missions carry no charge per flight, so how often you look stops being a cost decision. The pod stays ours throughout: at the end of the term you renew, upgrade, or it comes back to us.
What do I get paid?
A share of every minute somebody else flies from your pod. The share is agreed with you before install. A pod with enough demand around it can earn back the whole of its own lease, which is the reason the arrangement exists, though we would rather show you the arithmetic for your site than promise you a number here.
Do people get access to my site data?
No. A third-party mission captures their target, not yours. Nothing of yours is listed or sold unless you separately opt in to that.
Who is liable?
Operations sit with us and the flight-critical systems sit with the aircraft. That responsibility is written into the arrangement rather than left implied.
What happens if demand never comes?
You still have a pod on site that flies whenever you want. The earning side is upside, and we would rather tell you that plainly than sell you a forecast.
Send us the site
Tell us where you are, what you would want flown, and what is around you. We will tell you honestly whether a pod makes sense there.