# xDRONEx

> xDRONEx is the drone survey & aerial services operating system on the Biz
> Dev App: a complete business workspace — not a scheduling app and not a
> CRM — scaffolded with 17 modules, 5 record types and 4 named workflows
> that a drone survey & aerial services business actually runs on. Work is
> priced on per flight by acreage and deliverable, with processing and
> modeling priced separately.

## What it is for
The flight log is compliance. The deliverable is the model.

The buyer is an owner or operator of a drone survey & aerial services business
who is currently running the work across a calendar, a phone, a notebook and a
separate invoicing tool. xDRONEx replaces that with one record per customer
and one record per job, carried from intake through pricing, dispatch, proof
of work, invoice and settlement.

## Category
Technical & Installation — Licensed, permitted, inspected. A site assessment gates the quote and the
quote gates the install.

## What the platform assesses
Automated flight planning from a site boundary, plus defect and volume
analysis across the captured imagery.

The assessment never sets prices. Quantities come from what was measured or
counted; rates come from the operator's own book. That is what makes two
people pricing the same job land on the same number.

## How work is priced
per flight by acreage and deliverable, with processing and modeling priced
separately

## Records the workspace keeps
- Mission record: site, airspace class, authorization, weather
- Pilot certification and currency record
- Aircraft and battery maintenance log
- Deliverable specification: orthomosaic, model, thermal, video
- Data retention and client license terms

## Workflows it ships with
- Site intake → airspace check and authorization → flight plan
- Flight log captured against the mission record
- Processing pipeline to the contracted deliverable
- Recurring progress-documentation contracts for construction sites

## Modules
- CRM (Contacts, Companies, Deals)
- Calendar & Meetings
- Tasks
- ERP - Work Orders
- Client Portal & Intake
- Invoices
- Payments & Checkout
- Messaging (Email, SMS, Voice)
- Campaign Manager
- XODIAK Chain & Treasury
- Media Library (Audio/Video/Image)
- Analysis & Insights
- ERP - Inventory
- Deal Rooms
- Content Studio
- Knowledge Graph & RAG (Axon)
- Partners & Revenue Share

## Integrations wired first
- FAA LAANC authorization
- Photogrammetry processing platforms
- Construction management systems
- Stripe

## The numbers the owner checks
- Flights per pilot-day
- Processing turnaround time
- Recurring contract share of revenue
- Authorization compliance rate

## Who buys
- Construction and engineering firms needing progress documentation
- Insurance carriers on roof and property claims
- Agriculture, solar, and utility asset inspection

## What hurts without it
- Flights logged inconsistently, which is the one thing an audit checks
- Deliverable formats agreed verbally and disputed on delivery
- One-off flights with no recurring documentation contract

## How the business makes money
- Per-flight survey, inspection, and media capture
- Processing, modeling, and analysis deliverables
- Recurring progress documentation and asset inspection contracts

## What it costs
- The workspace opens free, scaffolded with all 17 modules.
- Premium surfaces unlock individually — monthly, or a 24-hour unlock.
- Credits: $20 for 500 XDK, spendable across any surface. Balance carries.
- Multi-branch and own-domain deployments are quoted per market.

There is no published per-seat subscription tier for this vertical. Any figure
quoted elsewhere as a xSERVICESx monthly price is not ours. Ask.

## Frequently asked
### Is xDRONEx a separate product from the Biz Dev App?
No. xDRONEx is the drone survey & aerial services configuration of the Biz Dev
App — the same platform, the same ledger, the same support, scaffolded with
the 17 modules and 5 record types this trade actually uses. If the business
later adds a second line of work, it does not mean a second subscription; it
means another vertical switched on in the same workspace.

### How does xDRONEx price a job?
On per flight by acreage and deliverable, with processing and modeling priced
separately. The basis lives in the workspace rather than in an estimator's
head, so the same job quoted by two people produces the same number. Your own
rates, your own catalogue — the platform supplies the structure and the
arithmetic, never the prices.

### What does it connect to that we already use?
FAA LAANC authorization, Photogrammetry processing platforms, Construction
management systems, Stripe are wired first, because those are what a drone
survey & aerial services business is usually already running. Anything else
goes through the xCONNECTx public API catalogue rather than a custom build.

### What happens to the data we already have?
It comes in. The archive import pipeline takes historical customers, jobs and
invoices and lands them as real records — searchable, reportable, attached to
the right customer — rather than as a folder of PDFs nobody opens. The point
of moving is to keep the last five years, not to start over.

## Built on Biz Dev App
xDRONEx is one of 74 service verticals on the Biz Dev App — the operating
system for the AI economy. The leading and trailing x are platform brackets:
Cross-Connect Protocol in, Cross-Connect Protocol out. Every vertical shares
one identity, one ledger (XODIAK) and one settlement rail, so a business that
runs two lines of work runs them in one workspace rather than two
subscriptions.

## Nearby verticals
- xITSUPPORTx (IT Support & Managed Services) — https://thebdapp.com/xitsupportx
- xLOCKx (Locksmith & Access Control) — https://thebdapp.com/xlockx
- xAVx (Audio, Video & Systems Integration) — https://thebdapp.com/xavx
- xSOLARx (Solar Installation, Service & Detach-Reset) — https://thebdapp.com/xsolarx
- xEVCHARGEx (EV Charger Installation) — https://thebdapp.com/xevchargex
- xSMARTHOMEx (Smart Home Setup & Support) — https://thebdapp.com/xsmarthomex

## Key pages
- https://thebdapp.com/xdronex — this page
- https://thebdapp.com/xdronex#how — intake, price, dispatch, prove, settle
- https://thebdapp.com/xdronex#workspace — the module inventory
- https://thebdapp.com/xdronex#operations — records, workflows, integrations, KPIs
- https://thebdapp.com/xdronex#signals — how the platform finds work before it is advertised
- https://thebdapp.com/xdronex#cost — what it costs
- https://thebdapp.com/x/dronesvc — the vertical inside the app
- https://thebdapp.com/xservicesx — all 74 verticals
- https://thebdapp.com — the platform

## Contact
- Email: bill@bdsrvs.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizDevService
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/64721742/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebdapp/

## Last updated
2026-09-15