Homeowners never see the best part of your job. The roof, the scale, the finished layout. We fly it, film it, and turn it into photos and video that sell the next one.
Ground-level phone pics Stock photos Nothing to show Proof from the air.
Drone shoots are included in the Growth and Market Leader plans, or booked as a one-off.
That is the problem with the trades that do the most expensive work. A homeowner spends twenty thousand dollars and the result is somewhere they will never stand. Aerial photos give them the view they paid for, and give you proof that a phone at ground level cannot capture.
It works on the way in, too. Almost no contractor in the Bay Area shows aerial work, so a single drone shot makes your listing look like the serious option next to five competitors using stock images.
The same angle on day one and on the final walkthrough. It closes future jobs, and it settles questions if a customer ever disputes the scope.
A slow rise over a finished roof stops the scroll in a way a photo never will. We cut it for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
Aerial footage behind your homepage headline makes a small operation look established. It is the fastest credibility upgrade a contractor site can get.
Every shoot feeds your Google Business Profile too. New photos each week tell Google the business is active, which feeds your map ranking.
The most common reason a contractor says no to this is the assumption it will eat a working day. It does not. Here is the whole process.
You tell us which project is worth filming and roughly when it finishes. We work backwards from that. Choosing the right job matters more than choosing the right day, because a tidy site photographs better than a big one.
Before anyone drives anywhere, we check what the airspace over that address allows. This is the step most people skip, and it is the one that cancels shoots. More on it below.
One flight covers the roof, the elevations, the approach and the wide context shot. Your crew keeps working. We are not directing anybody, and nobody has to stand around.
Retouched stills, a short vertical cut for social, and the raw frames. Yours to keep and use anywhere, including on the next contractor website you build with somebody else.
This is the practical reason to use somebody who does this properly rather than a friend with a drone.
Commercial drone work requires an FAA Part 107 certificate. Flying anywhere near the Bay Area’s airports also requires airspace authorization, and there is a lot of airport here: SFO, Oakland and San Jose between them cover a wide stretch of the peninsula and the south bay, with Palo Alto, San Carlos, Hayward and Moffett filling in much of the rest.
Authorization is usually quick through LAANC, often granted in minutes. Sometimes it is capped at a low ceiling, and under some approach paths it is not granted at all without a waiver that takes weeks.
None of that is a reason to skip drone work. It is a reason to check the address before the truck leaves, which is what step two is for. A shoot that gets cancelled on site costs you a morning and gets you nothing.
Roofing, hardest of all. The entire product is invisible from the ground. Aerial before-and-after is the closest thing to proof a roofer can hand a homeowner. See roofing marketing.
Solar. Panel layout, array size and roof coverage only make sense from above, and solar buyers research harder than almost any other homeowner. See solar marketing.
Landscaping and hardscape. A finished yard read from above shows the design. From the patio it just looks like a patio. See landscaping marketing.
Remodels and additions. Framing progress from a fixed overhead angle makes a compelling sequence, and it documents the build. See remodeling marketing.
It does less for trades whose work finishes indoors. If you are mostly a painting contractor doing interiors, put the budget into photography and reviews instead. We will tell you that rather than sell you a flight.
Drone media is a differentiator, not a traffic source. Almost nobody searches for a contractor because of aerial photography, and we checked rather than assumed: the searches that do exist are people hiring a drone pilot or booking a roof inspection, which is a different job from the one we do.
What it changes is the decision after somebody finds you. Getting found is still the work of local SEO and your Google Business Profile, which is why we run them together rather than selling flights on their own.
The good news is that one flight feeds all of it: your site, your profile, your social, and your reviews page. See how it fits in our full service lineup, or read the Bay Area search data behind how we choose what to build first.
Drone work comes with the Growth plan and the Market Leader plan, one shoot a month on each. The Foundation plan does not include it, because at that tier the money does more good in your website and your map ranking first.
If you are not on a plan and just want footage of one job, we shoot one-offs. A single shoot is $450 and a half day covering up to three sites is $850, both published rather than quoted. Tell us the address and the finish date and we will tell you what the airspace allows before you commit to anything.
Tell us about your next job. We will plan the shoot around your schedule and hand back photos and video you can use everywhere. If you would rather they went out than sat in a folder, that is social media management.
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