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Buildmode Aerial · Pricing · London, Ontario

Flat fee. No hourly. No surprises.

Construction documentation by someone who's spent 30 years on jobsites. Orthomosaic maps, stockpile volumes, progress tracking and FPV flythroughs — delivered in 48 hours. All prices in CAD, before HST. First five founding clients lock The Flyby at $850 — it goes to $1,250 once regular booking opens.

Transport Canada Advanced RPAS Operations Certificate 48-hour turnaround London, Ontario + 1-hour radius

Document & Measure

Measured data your project manager can bill against, defend in a progress dispute, or hand to the client without translating it first.

Recurring

Priced per capture. Multi-capture months quoted as a package.
Monthly recurring

Progress Documentation

  • Weekly or monthly drone capture
  • Orthomosaic map + timeline comparison
  • Branded PDF progress report with annotations
  • Shareable interactive map link for stakeholders

Best for active sites running six months or longer. $600–$900/month for a 2–4 capture package.

$400–$600 per capture
Quarterly / monthly

Stockpile Volume Survey

  • Drone capture of material piles
  • Volumetric calculation to ±1–2% accuracy
  • Branded PDF report with tonnage estimates
  • Historical comparison vs. previous surveys

Covers 1–3 stockpiles per visit. Quarries, ready-mix, civil contractors, landscape supply.

$350–$550 per site visit
Per capture

Earthworks Cut/Fill Tracking

  • Regular capture during grading and excavation
  • Cut/fill volumes vs. the design surface
  • Early detection of over- or under-excavation
  • Running total across the earthworks phase

Catching over-excavation in week two costs a fraction of finding it at closeout.

$450–$700 per capture

One-time

Single visit, single deliverable.
One-time

Pre-Bid Site Survey

  • Orthomosaic + basic topo before work starts
  • Access route documentation
  • Utility and drainage visibility
  • Existing conditions record for the file

Bid off measured ground. A conventional topo survey runs $2,500+.

$500–$800 per site
One-time

As-Built Documentation

  • Final site condition capture
  • Built for closeout, warranty or handover
  • Branded deliverable for the owner's records
  • Pairs with the pre-bid survey as a before/after

The record of what was actually built, on the day it was finished.

$500–$750 per site
Per inspection

Asset & Roof Inspection

  • Sheltered operations — close-in flight around structures
  • High-resolution imagery of hard-to-reach areas
  • Annotated findings report
  • No lift, no swing stage, no roof access required

Property managers, facility owners, engineering firms.

$400–$700 per inspection

Show & Sell

Footage for marketing, recruiting and investor updates. Sold on its own or bundled with any mapping service.

The Flyby · Standalone or add-on

FPV Jobsite Flythrough

  • Up to 1 hour on site
  • One FPV flythrough, 30–60 seconds, fully edited
  • Your logo, your colours, music licensed and cleared
  • Vertical cut included for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
  • Delivered in 48 hours

Finished job walkthroughs, recruiting reels, showing a developer what you actually built.

$850 founding rate · $1,250 after
Monthly, bundled with mapping

Progress Video Update

  • 60–90 second monthly cut
  • Site evolution over the reporting period
  • Music, graphics, fully branded
  • Built for investor updates and internal reporting

Priced at this rate when it runs alongside a mapping package.

$600–$900 per video

Bundle: Mapping + Flythrough

Combine any Track A mapping service with an FPV flythrough. Perfect for project closeout — documented proof and marketing content out of one package.

15% off when bundled

What's included, what isn't

Travel

No travel charge within one hour of London — Woodstock, St. Thomas, Stratford, Ingersoll, Dorchester and the 401/402 corridor. Beyond that, ask and I'll quote it.

Turnaround

48 hours from capture to delivered report, standard. Processing runs overnight; the work is in the analysis, not the waiting.

Airspace and permissions

Flight planning, airspace clearance and the site survey are handled before shoot day. The Advanced certificate covers controlled airspace. You don't touch any of it.

Weather

Captures are rescheduled, not charged, when wind or precipitation puts the flight outside limits. Hard numbers, not pilot discretion.

What this isn't

Not a legal survey. I don't set boundaries or stamp plans — call an OLS for that. This replaces the phone-camera site walks between survey visits.

Accuracy

Volumetric calculations run ±1–2% against manual methods at ±5–10%. Survey-grade control available with RTK/GCPs — quoted separately.

Try it on your site first

Free demo flight for London-area GCs

20 minutes on your site. Full orthomosaic map and a sample report delivered within 48 hours. No commitment, no invoice. If it doesn't save your PM time or give you something worth sending to your client, you owe nothing.