Run the business, not just the drone.
Flying is the easy part. Running the drone business is the hard part. This is the portal we built over thirteen months to run our own drone company, and it now runs other drone companies too: your brand on it, your customers' own logins, every deliverable in one place, and invoicing from your own Stripe account. Three minutes, price first:
Then how the portal compares to Pix4D, DroneDeploy and Optelos, area by area, with a real Nemo run on camera. Want the full walk-through? The eight-minute version goes screen by screen.
What it costs
| One-time fee, charged once. Your seat and your white-label. Never billed again. Half at signing and half at 30 days if you prefer. | $2,000 |
| Per customer, per year. A customer is each company or farm you process at least one job for in the year, however many jobs. | $50 |
Processing fee for mapping jobs, which build the 3D model, point cloud, ortho, contours and volumes, flat by size:
| Up to 500 photos | $60 |
| 501 to 1,500 photos | $120 |
| 1,501 to 3,000 photos | $240 |
| Over 3,000, or multispectral over 100 acres | Quoted before it runs |
For multispectral, count captures, not files. Any quoted job gets a number before anything runs. Invoiced at month end, net 15. No per-seat fee. No contract.
The math
Ten customers and twenty mapping runs a year: $2,000 + $500 + $2,400 = $4,900 the first year, and $500 + $2,400 = $2,900 every year after. That includes your customers' logins, Nemo, thermal, safety, the planner, whiteboards and billing.
The big names list around $4,000 a year for a single seat, before the tiers they only quote: DroneDeploy Flight & Analysis is $4,188 a year for one admin seat, and Pix4Dmapper starts at $333 a month, about $3,996 a year. Thermal and the advanced features sit in their quote-only tiers.
List prices as shown on dronedeploy.com/pricing and pix4d.com/pricing on October 21, 2026. DroneDeploy and Pix4D are trademarks of their owners.
Included: all the AI analysis and Nemo, storage, every user on your crew, and support. Your data and your customers' data are yours, exportable any time, with a full export and 30 days' notice if either side ends it.
Not included: custom builds. Flying is separate and quoted per job.
New this month: quotes with a field map
Type the customer's address, tap the property lines (or the corners where the county publishes none), set your rate per acre, and send. The customer opens it on a phone with no login, sees the map and the number, types a name and taps Accept. You get an email, the quote becomes the job, and the invoice drafts on your own Stripe. A customer's flight request can be answered with a quote in one click. How quoting works.
What that buys
One portal, with your brand on it. Your customers get their own login. They see their own sites and work the data themselves: analysis with Nemo, measurements, notes, whiteboards, reports. Their engineers download the CAD. You are not the help desk.
Whatever you fly for
- Mapping & surveyorthomosaic · contours · point cloud · 3D model · CAD
- Facility & roof inspectionfindings · roof CAD · OSHA safety review
- Thermalreal degrees · roof moisture · solar · electrical
- Ag & spray operatorsNDVI · obstacle scout · spray job sheet · T100 file
- Utilities & oil and gascorridors · right of way · structures · hotspots
- Real estate & constructionprogress · volumes · takeoff · media
The deliverables
- Every photo numbered, in the viewer, on findings, on whiteboards, in the PDFs. Say a number, send a link to that exact photo.
- Heat scans in real temperature, numbered T-1, T-2, T-3, and the thermal blanket: temperature draped on the 3D model. Draw a box on the thermal map and get the measured °C inside it.
- The Workspace: 3D Cloud with distance, height, area and volume; Roof with facets, pitch and squares; Structure; Cut point cloud with denoise, ground and height-above-ground; Layers; Files and models in E57, PLY, OBJ, IFC, DXF, GeoPackage and BIM.
- Findings: Nemo reads every frame against your brief, draws the box on the photo, names it, grades the severity and writes the description. Thermal findings carry the temperature in real degrees. Every finding is traceable to the exact image; nothing is reported without its photo. Drafts first: a person reviews, then releases. RGB and thermal in separate lanes, and a notes line your whole team shares.
- Nemo, the assistant: answers from your data, opens images by number, remembers what your team tells it, and keeps a notebook per account that prints to PDF.
- Draw a box on a photo, the map, the thermal map, or the NDVI map and get the measured numbers and the AI's read, with Remember beside Save.
- Flight video and video intelligence, and Compare: this pass against the last, side by side.
- Data record with chain of custody on every product, a client report builder, and quantity takeoff into the estimator.
- Whiteboards with a no-login share link that walks a crew to the exact spot, and a Safety tab with a no-login safety link.
- For spray work: the obstacle scout, the field outline, the one-page spray job sheet, and the T100 file.
- Flight planner built for Freefly, DJI and Autel aircraft. Tap AERO and the actual VFR sectional sits under your plan; the pre-flight pulls airspace class, LAANC, live weather, NOTAMs and TFRs onto one page with a go or no-go, then exports the mission for the Astro, for DJI Pilot 2 and Litchi, or for Autel Explorer.
Invoicing from your own Stripe
- Invoice your customers from the portal, through your own Stripe account. Card or bank transfer. Money goes straight to your bank; Stripe emails the invoice and the receipt.
- Your price book, your line items, your customers. Billing is built on Stripe.
- Built so nobody at PrecisionSky can open it. The portal holds your Stripe account ID and your price list, never a key, never an invoice. Every action the portal takes in your Stripe is written to a record only you can see, and you can revoke the portal from your Stripe dashboard at any time.
How the portal compares
Six areas. For each one, what Pix4D, DroneDeploy and Optelos ask you to do, from their own documentation. Then what the portal does on its own, from our own screens. Nothing in this video is a mock-up, and the findings example is a real Nemo run, recorded live.
1 · Processing
What they ask you to doPix4D: pick a processing template (Nadir, Flat Terrain, Oblique) and tick the outputs you want: orthomosaic, surface model, point cloud, mesh. Miss one and you run it again. DroneDeploy: the map and model come back on their own; plant health, volumes and reports are tools you run afterward. Optelos: set up with the vendor as a project.
What the portal doesDrop the photos. Send for processing. Run the analysis. The flights are recognized and pre-checked from the frames themselves. No template, no output checklist, no add-on. RGB, thermal and multispectral each get their own lane, and one upload produces every deliverable the data supports.
2 · Findings
What they ask you to doPix4D: findings are not a function; you look at the map and annotate by hand. DroneDeploy: Safety AI, Progress AI and Inspection AI are separate agents on an enterprise quote, built for construction progress and jobsite safety. Optelos: your people annotate and label images to train a custom model for your asset class.
What the portal doesNemo reads every frame against your brief. For each thing it finds, it draws the box on the photo, names it, grades the severity and writes the description. Thermal findings carry the temperature in real degrees. Every finding is traceable to the exact image the drone captured. New findings land as drafts; a person reviews, then releases. From then on every finding carries your customer's notes, and the next analysis honors them.
3 · Nemo
What they ask you to doNone of the three has a copilot that works inside your customer's data.
What the portal doesNemo is an AI agent with tools, and every tool reaches only the account it is signed into. Say where you want to go and it opens it. Ask a question and it answers from the data: site size from the orthomosaic, findings with the image cited. It opens any image by its number, analyzes a spot you mark on a photo, thermal frame or paused video, builds a report on demand, compares two flights, and remembers what your team tells it in one notebook per account. It does not guess. Nothing is trained on your data.
4 · Thermal
What they ask you to doThermal is a colored map in a higher tier, a desktop product, or a project.
What the portal doesEvery thermal frame is kept in real degrees. Open a frame and the temperature is on it. Draw a box and you get the reading. Hot and cold spots are findings with the degrees in the title, and the heat scan drapes onto the 3D model, so a wet roof section is a shape, not a color.
5 · Your customer
What they ask you to doYour customer gets a share link, or you buy them a seat.
What the portal doesYour customer gets their own login, under your brand, and works their own sites themselves. In the field, a whiteboard link on a phone walks the crew to the exact spot, distance and direction. A safety link the whole site can open, with no login.
6 · The business
What they ask you to doNone of the three invoices your customers. For ag, the mapping tools give you a plant-health map, and that is where they stop.
What the portal doesInvoice your customers from the portal through your own Stripe account, card or bank transfer, money straight to your bank, built so nobody at PrecisionSky can see your invoices. And spray operators run their business on the same portal: the one-page spray job, the obstacle scout, the field file for the sprayer, and crop health. They were not built for a spray operator. Ours was.
On one page
| Pix4D | DroneDeploy | Optelos | PrecisionSky portal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pick a template, tick outputs | You do | Fewer knobs | Vendor setup | Never. One upload. |
| AI findings, box and photo behind each | Not offered | Enterprise agents, quoted | Custom models, onboarding | Included |
| Thermal in real °C on the 3D model | Pix4Dmapper, desktop | Higher tier | By project | Included |
| Your customer's own login, your brand | Share links / seats | Seats, by quote | Vendor-provisioned | Included |
| Whiteboard and safety link on a phone | — | — | — | Included |
| Invoice your customers, your own Stripe | — | — | — | Included |
| Spray operators: job sheet, scout, field file | Pix4Dfields, separate | Plant-health maps | — | Included |
| Processing hardware | Your PC or cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Own server, 2×H100 + 2×A100 |
| Support | Ticket / community | Ticket | Account team | A person. Text us. |
| Price | from $333/mo, 1 seat | $4,188/yr, 1 seat | Quote | $2,000 once · $50/customer/yr · $60–240/run |
Pix4D, DroneDeploy and Optelos are trademarks of their owners. Rows describe each vendor's published workflow and list prices as of October 21, 2026 (support.pix4d.com, dronedeploy.com, optelos.com); tiers marked "quoted" are not listed publicly. "—" means not a function of that product.
See it live, no login
These are real jobs of ours. Open them on your phone.
Our own server, our own GPU queue
- The portal runs on our own secure, dedicated server. Every account is sealed from every other: your customers' jobs sit in their own account, and nobody outside it can reach them, not another operator, not another client, and not PrecisionSky unless your client turns on support access themselves.
- Processing runs on our own GPU queue: two NVIDIA H100s and two A100s, each with 250 GB of memory, spun up for your job and shut down when it is done. Your photos never sit on a shared app.
- Sign-in is a 12-character password, two-factor for operators, HTTPS everywhere, sessions that time out, and an email when someone signs in from a new place.
- The database is backed up every night, encrypted with AES-256 before it touches a disk. Finished jobs are copied off-site.
- Chain of custody on every file: a SHA-256 hash, linked record to record, so a third party can prove nothing was altered.
- Share links expire and can be revoked. The safety link sets no cookies and never asks a phone for its identity.
- The AI runs on PrecisionSky's keys under terms that do not train on your data. Your data is yours: export all of it, any time, with one request.
Support
A person, not a ticket queue. Text us what you clicked and what you saw. What breaks gets fixed, and feature requests go on a list. The system watches for its own errors, never for what you or your customers do.
Who's behind it
PrecisionSky Intelligence, Weston, Nebraska. Service-disabled veteran owned, FAA Part 107, insured. We fly thermal, roof, and mapping work for plants and farms, and this portal is what our clients get. The first operator has run his business on it since August, with his brand on it; the second came aboard in October.
Text or call 402-941-4209, or email gary@precisionskyintelligence.ai. We'll walk you through it on your own phone.