Raad

Raad operates an aerial intelligence platform that lets customers order drone-based data capture online and receive processed geospatial deliverables. Users draw a polygon over an area of interest — an address, a site, or a corridor — select resolution, sensors, and output formats, see the price up front, and receive data within 48 hours. Residential property captures start at $200, with imagery at 2 cm ground sample distance and outputs including 3D models and point clouds.

The capture side is fulfilled by a global pilot network, described on the company site as 6,000 drones across 65 countries. Pilots receive a daily agenda, upload raw field data directly to the platform, track payouts, and are assigned a flight coordinator at the company. On the client side, the platform provides orthomosaic maps at centimeter accuracy, vision-model analysis for detection, classification and measurement, site feasibility checks before commitment, and workflow triggers that start downstream processes when new data lands.

Delivery and analysis are built around open geospatial standards and existing customer toolchains. Data is exposed via STAC, WMS, WMTS, XYZ tiles, COG, GeoTIFF, LAS/LAZ and 3D Tiles, and integrates with ArcGIS, QGIS and Autodesk Civil 3D. Customers can upload their own model weights and run inference on their imagery, including YOLO, YOLO-seg and Mask R-CNN architectures or foundation models such as DINO and SAM 3. In-browser viewers include SplatStudio for Gaussian splats and a point-cloud viewer supporting classified point clouds, meshes and orthomosaics, and a workflow builder chains triggers, models and exports into automated pipelines.

Business model

Raad coordinates a third-party network of drone pilots to fulfill customer capture requests, then processes and delivers the resulting geospatial data through its own software platform. Pilots are compensated per job with payouts tracked in the platform, while customers pay for captures and deliverables.

Per-capture pricing quoted up front and ordered online, starting at $200 for residential properties, alongside a platform offering for organizations running recurring or portfolio-wide capture programs.

Latest developments

Published content includes a January 2026 case study on a global energy operator using aerial inspections to recover yield across 800 MW of underperforming solar assets, and an August 2026 post comparing LiDAR and photogrammetry.