Rethinking how we deliver drone jobs - looking for feedback

[NDS-Success]

I’m looking for some honest feedback from other commercial pilots on a new client job portal / dashboard we’ve been working on.

We’ve been experimenting with a client-facing “job portal” instead of traditional PDFs or Drive folders — basically a single link where a client can see and interact with everything that they want to. The idea is to move away from “here’s a folder of photos” and toward something that feels more like a structured job deliverable, especially for inspections, roofing, and construction progress.

I put together a demo of what a client would see (no login required) for anyone willing to take a look and share thoughts:
Click here

Not selling anything here — genuinely interested in:

• Would clients actually use this?
• Is this overkill for most jobs?
• What would you remove or simplify?

Appreciate any feedback.

 

[GFields]

I have clients that want the assets to be delivered to Dropbox, some that want Google Drive, and none that have required a Physical USB.

 

[Airmapper]

I'm pretty much exclusively working in civil stuff for now, where I work, this would be massive overkill. They see stuff like that as something they are paying extra for. Most of the time on the rare occasions I do photo or video for real estate type work, it's going to someone who is just going to drop it in a powerpoint. This unknown end user might appreciate that site for a presentation, but the 3 layers of middle management don't know exactly what it's for or what the person getting it actually desires, and they aren't going to explain.

I appreciate it, how cool it is and professional looking. But any time I do anything I'm just asked to put photos in a folder somewhere someone can download them. Sometime they just want them "emailed" and fuss if it's not a normal attachment, then I have to go through explaining their minimum cost email server does not want to send attachments more than 20MB.

But, do not despair, as I am very confident my experience is not representative of your target customers. I feel like the people I usually work with don't want anything better because it would require them to learn that there is something better.

 

[PWidmayer]

I admit that program looks awesome and professional. Like others I am not sure the customers would be interested in that, yet. I think its great for moving forward and addressing the needs of construction customers. I say keep moving forward and establish a standard.

 

[Sierra Drone Concepts LLC]

That's great and will keep you it mind for future projects. Would be great for home inspections. There's select job or two that this would have been a nice touch as a deliverable, but most of the time the inspector that I work with just wants the raw photos.
My main focus is on 2D and 3D maps, but I could see this being very useful for an ongoing monitoring job. You could even offer different template styles; one for site inspections that might break the ortho down into smaller portions depending on the size with the option to add certain annotations in the single photos, or a template for progress updates that has a timeline or compare feature to look back at specific dates, maybe a template for stockpiles/earthworks sites.. Ether way I think it's good move forward for the industry as a whole.