We collect the evidence. Your engineer makes the call.
Aerial and underwater data acquisition for contractors, plants, facilities and utilities across Alabama — built to drop straight into a licensed professional's workflow rather than to replace one.
How we fit
Part of a team, not a substitute for one
Inspection work on real assets usually involves someone who can put a seal on a determination, and someone who can get a camera to where the problem is. Those are different jobs. We do the second one, carefully, and hand the result to whoever is doing the first — your engineer, ours, or nobody, depending on what the job needs.
It is also the honest version. We are not a licensed engineering firm and do not present ourselves as one, which means the data we hand over does not come with a conclusion already baked into it by someone with an interest in the answer.
You already have an engineer
Most of the time this is the arrangement. Your PE, architect or consultant knows what they need to see and cannot easily get to it. We fly it, document it to their brief, and hand the whole set over — imagery, thermal, measurements, flight log. They do the analysis and put their seal on it. We stay out of the determination entirely.
You need one brought in
If a finding turns out to need a stamped evaluation and you have nobody lined up, say so. We can work in conjunction with a licensed Professional Engineer, architect or surveyor on the project, with our part limited to acquisition, inspection support and documentation unless the agreement says otherwise.
You only need the record
Plenty of work needs no engineer at all. A dated condition record before a lease, after a storm, or on an annual schedule is a complete job in itself — and keeping it out of a professional scope keeps it quick and keeps it cheap.
Where the line sits is written down rather than left to be assumed — see the service disclaimer.
Who this is for
Three kinds of client, one way of working
Contractors and trades
Roofing, restoration, solar, sheet metal, marine construction. Subcontract the looking so your crew is not setting ladders to produce a photo set, and so the record you hand a customer did not come from the people quoting the work.
- Pre-bid condition surveys
- Documentation for a claim file
- Progress records through a job
- Handover evidence at close-out
Facilities and plants
Mills, processing, warehousing, manufacturing. Roofs, stacks, tanks, conveyors and structures from the air; intakes, wet wells, basins and sumps from below. Nothing opened up, nothing taken offline to look at it.
- Annual roof and envelope record
- Thermal moisture and heat-loss survey
- Structure condition at height
- Submerged intake and discharge
Utilities and co-ops
Substations, towers, poles, penstocks and water assets. We are a small operation and say so: one pilot, local, suited to focused scopes rather than hundred-mile corridor programmes.
- Substation and yard condition
- Structure-level imagery to a brief
- Thermal on connections and switchgear
- Post-event damage documentation
The deliverable
In a form your engineer can use
A folder of unsorted photographs is not evidence, and it is not much help to a professional being asked to sign something. What goes out is organised, dated and traceable to the flight that produced it.
- Imagery
- Full-resolution stills, geotagged and timestamped, organised by location or asset rather than by the order the camera fired.
- Thermal
- Radiometric imagery with a temperature scale, paired with the matching visual frame so an anomaly can be read against what is actually there.
- Overhead
- A to-scale mosaic of the roof or site, with findings marked on it.
- Findings
- Each one pinned to where it is, in plain language, with the imagery attached. Severity noted. No repair pricing, because we do not sell repairs.
- Flight record
- Date, time, conditions at capture, and the log for the flight. This is what makes the set usable as evidence rather than as illustration.
- The raw files
- Yours. Downloadable as a set, forwardable to an engineer, an adjuster or a client without asking us for permission.
Scope
What we do not do
Said plainly, because finding out mid-project is expensive for everyone.
- Engineering analysis, structural evaluation or any stamped determination
- Code compliance, regulatory or safety certifications
- Non-destructive testing, thickness or material testing
- Boundary or legal surveying
- Commercial diving, confined-space entry or anything requiring a person on the asset
- Repairs, or quoting them — we do not sell the work we might find
Several of these we can get done by bringing in the right licensed professional. Ask rather than assume, and ask before the job rather than after.
Common questions
Can you work to our engineer’s capture specification?
Yes, and it is the easiest way to work. Send the spec — altitudes, angles, overlap, which components, what resolution at the component — and we fly to it. A specification agreed before the flight is worth far more than a conversation about it afterwards.
Will you put your name on a structural determination?
No, and you should be wary of any inspection company that would without a licence behind it. We document what is observable and hand it to the person qualified to make the call. Our service disclaimer sets this out in full.
Do you work white-label under our name?
For contractors, usually yes. Tell us whether your client should ever hear from us and we will stay behind you if that is what you want. The deliverable can carry your branding instead of ours.
What does onboarding as a vendor involve?
Send us your packet and we will work through it. We are a young company and straightforward about where we are: tell us what your process requires and we will tell you honestly what we have today and what we would need to put in place.
How far do you travel?
Walker County and the counties around it are routine, and the Birmingham metro is normal. Further is fine; it shows up in the quote rather than hiding in it.
Can we set up a standing schedule?
Yes, and it is where this gets genuinely valuable. Flown the same way each time, two visits a year become a comparison rather than two unrelated sets of photographs. Same altitudes, same angles, same overhead.
How quickly can you be on site after a storm?
Usually within a day or two, weather permitting, and sooner for a standing client. Dated imagery from the week of an event is materially stronger than anything captured a month later.
Who actually turns up?
The owner, every time. One Part 107 certified pilot who flies the job and writes the findings. No account manager in between, and no question that has to be relayed to someone who was not there.
Tell us what needs documenting.
Send the site, the asset and what the data has to support — a bid, a claim, a handover, an engineer's review. Call (205) 567-0548 or use the form. If your engineer has a capture specification, send that instead and we will quote from it.