Managed
Capture.
Scheduled drone inspections on a fixed cadence. For clients whose sites change every week, every month or every season — same operating standards as our one-off work, packaged as a predictable monthly retainer with priority scheduling and change-detection reporting.
Some assets are a snapshot. Most aren’t.
A construction site moves every week. A solar farm fence ages every season. A growing crop is in a different state in May than it is in August. A roof on a 40-storey commercial building changes faster than its owner thinks. Most assets we’re asked to capture aren’t one-off jobs — they’re ongoing situations.
Managed Capture turns the per-brief quote into a programme. Locked-in monthly retainer, scheduled visits, consistent deliverables that compare cleanly across captures, priority scheduling when weather windows or project milestones move. Same kit, same pilot, same reporting format, every visit.
Six components. One programme.
Same CAA Operational Authorisation, same insured pilot, same processing pipeline as our one-off work — delivered on a recurring cadence with the operational and commercial benefits that come with it.
Visit cadence agreed at the outset (quarterly, bi-monthly, monthly or seasonal). Calendar locked in, with weather-window flex inside each visit slot. Priority rescheduling if a window slips.
Identical capture pattern, processing pipeline and report template across every visit. Outputs line up cleanly so changes between visits can be compared directly — no recalibration, no re-scoping.
Each visit’s report includes a change overlay against the previous capture: stockpile volume delta, progress against design, condition deterioration, crop-health drift — whatever’s relevant to the asset.
All-in monthly fee covers the agreed visit count, processing, reporting and standard travel. No per-visit invoicing, no surprise add-ons. Budget predictable for a financial year.
Managed-Capture clients sit ahead of one-off work in the diary — useful when a milestone visit, post-storm condition check or grow-stage NDVI window can’t move.
Captures, reports and 3D models held for you in our archive throughout the programme. On programme exit you take the full archive in industry-standard formats; we retain a business reference copy for 24 months for audit, continuity and dispute handling unless your Statement of Work requires longer. Recoverable on request — useful for dispute evidence, planning history, insurance claims and asset due-diligence.
Common cadences.
Indicative visit patterns across the six sector lines we work in. Most clients sit inside one of these — we tune the actual cadence to your project and asset cycle during scoping.
| Sector | Typical cadence | What it captures |
|---|---|---|
| Construction & civils | Monthly during active build · bi-monthly through slower phases | Progress vs programme, stockpile volumetrics, as-built vs design, dispute-grade evidence record. |
| Infrastructure & utilities | Quarterly · or bi-annual condition baseline | Powerline corridor walks, substation external inspection, mast condition, water-asset overflight. |
| Property & development | Monthly during build · quarterly post-completion | Phased development records, planning-evidence imagery, marketing assets refreshed each phase. |
| Built environment inspection | Bi-annual · or annual condition inspection | Roof/facade condition tracking, heritage asset records, post-weather-event check-ins. |
| Agriculture & land | Bi-monthly across the growing season (5–6 visits, March–September) | NDVI/NDRE crop-health tracking, drainage performance, livestock counts, habitat & ecology records. |
| Industrial & commercial | Quarterly · or bi-annual | Industrial roof condition, yard utilisation, distribution-hub external inspection, facilities-team evidence. |
Cadence agreed in the Statement of Work. Visit count and tier sit independently — e.g. a 4-visit Quarterly Cycle could be spaced evenly through the year, or front-loaded into a single phase.
Fixed monthly retainers.
12-month minimum term. Visit count is annual — spread evenly or weighted to project phases. After the initial term, you can leave at the next visit cycle with 60 days’ written notice. Retainers exclude non-standard travel beyond mainland UK.
- 4 scheduled visits per year
- Standard report pack each visit
- Visit-to-visit comparison summary
- Asset history archive
- 6 scheduled visits per year
- Standard report + change overlay each visit
- Multispectral capture on request (NDVI/NDRE)
- Priority scheduling within weather windows
- Asset history archive
- 12 scheduled visits per year
- Full processing pack each visit (orthomosaic, DTM/DSM, point cloud)
- Change-detection report against prior capture
- Annual timelapse compilation
- Top-of-list scheduling priority
- Asset history archive
- Per-site cadence picked from above
- Portfolio-level rollup report (quarterly)
- Comparative dashboard across sites
- Single contact, single invoice
- Asset history archive across the portfolio
Programmes are scoped individually. We provide a fixed monthly figure after a short scoping call, based on site size, cadence, travel and deliverable mix. Per the fixed-price-per-brief rule, no hourly rates and no “from £X” pricing.
All programmes are scoped against the site, the cadence and the deliverable mix you need. We’ll come back with a fixed monthly figure within 2 working days of a 15-minute scoping call — no hourly rates, no per-visit invoicing once the retainer is set. Standard travel within mainland UK included where reasonable; non-standard travel (Highlands, islands, NI) and night-time / restricted-airspace work scoped separately. Looking for security and broker-ready evidence? See the flagship Site Security Vulnerability Assessment instead — that’s a different product on a different fee structure. The same analyst runs the flagship Assessment for insurance-sensitive sites.
Why programmes beat ad-hoc.
The exact per-visit unit cost depends on tier, visit count, site complexity and travel — agreed at scoping. The point isn’t the headline price; it’s that the programme is priced to reduce the effective per-visit cost compared with equivalent disconnected one-off jobs, and you end the year with a connected asset history rather than a folder of unrelated captures.
What buyers ask before signing.
What’s the lock-in? Can I cancel?
Who owns the data, and what happens if I leave?
What if my cadence needs to change mid-programme?
What counts as a “site” for pricing?
Does Managed Capture cover the Site Security Vulnerability Assessment?
Same operating standards. Recurring cadence.
Managed Capture isn’t a different service line — it’s the same drone inspection, photogrammetry and aerial-capture work covered on the Services page, run on a programme rather than a per-brief quote. Same CAA Operational Authorisation, same insured pilot, same equipment, same processing pipeline.
Most clients start with a one-off engagement to validate the fit, then move to a programme once the pattern is clear. Either route is fine. If the brief is a security or insurer-renewal question rather than recurring inspection capture, the right product is the flagship Site Security Vulnerability Assessment — not Managed Capture.
Have an asset that needs regular eyes?
15-minute scoping call. We confirm the right tier and cadence, walk through the deliverables for your sector, and come back with a fixed monthly figure within 2 working days.