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📰 INTERVIEW: Shepherd has partnered with DroneDeploy on a study finding partnered contractors saw claims cut nearly in half, and co-founder Justin Levine tells The Insurer the tie-up validates a five-year bet that reality capture technology can be priced directly into construction casualty coverage. 🟢 Read the DroneDeploy claims study >>> https://lnkd.in/ggvKj5Zp 🟢 Read Levine on Shepherd's pricing edge >>> https://lnkd.in/gPDGg8_H 🏷 Shepherd | DroneDeploy | Justin Levine | Thomson Reuters 🔓 Not a subscriber yet? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3OmPl0N 🔎 Key takeaways: ✅ DroneDeploy users saw 44% fewer claims and a 48% lower loss rate than non-users, with combined Ground-and-Aerial users 51% lower and tenured users past two years down 35% against their own pre-adoption experience ✅ Levine says nobody else in construction ties premium credit programmatically to reality capture use, a thesis Shepherd has spent five years validating against its own claims data ✅ Shepherd's premium credit typically outweighs the cost of using DroneDeploy itself, Levine said, calling it "a no-brainer" for most clients ✅ Shepherd receives real-time behavioral data on platform usage rather than the underlying images, and plans to add further reality capture partners over time #Shepherd #DroneDeploy #construction #insurtech #TheInsurer

Most reality capture tips reach the DroneDeploy Insider list before they reach this feed. The newsletter goes out to people who work in reality capture every day. Here's what's inside each issue: - New reality capture content, before it goes public. - A first look at where we'll be showing up this year. - Field-tested tips from people running these workflows daily. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/gHzGd6mW #newsletter #realitycapture #industrynews #constructiontech

In this month's newsletter: → We visit one 22-acre luxury hotel site in Fredericksburg, TX from the owner's (DC Partners) perspective and the builder's (Satterfield & Pontikes Construction) – and find out how drones saved the super 3-4 hours a day. → You can put a number on what reality capture is (actually) worth with our ROI calculator. → Plus Shepherd's six-year study shows how you can achieve 44% fewer claims and up to 25% off premiums. → And watch how Joeris General Contractors, LLC kept eyes on six months of overhead work.

Big news today. We signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Procore Technologies. For more than a decade, our customers have said the same thing. Reality capture should be a native part of how they work, not a separate system to reconcile. DroneDeploy is the eyes and ears on the jobsite, delivering the visual intelligence that bridges physical environments across the built world. Together with Procore we can turn visual data into action. Here is what stays the same for our customers: DroneDeploy stays an open ecosystem. We will keep integrating with the systems of record our customers already use across their projects and operations. Owners and operators stay core. DroneDeploy serves the people who build, power, and feed the world, and that doesn't change. Procore serves owners and operators at an even larger scale, and, upon close, our shared vision runs the full asset lifecycle from site selection through operations. Here is what we expect to accelerate: → Intelligent and deeply contextual progress tracking that catches schedule risk earlier to avoid delays.  → Fully autonomous capture. Ground robotics and autonomous flight both get more investment.  → One record instead of two. A unified platform gives teams one shared record between what was planned and what was actually built. The transaction is expected to close later this year, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gq_Yka89

A site this big is tough to view all at once. The A59 Kex Gill realignment stretches for miles through a remote, 300-meter-high section of North Yorkshire — too long to fly like a typical compact site, too far to walk end to end just to check a dimension. John Sisk & Son Ltd breaks it into stages instead. With DroneDeploy, the crew flies weekly maps across the full length of the job, tracking groundworks, tarmacking and tree planting as they move down the line – work that used to mean a drive out just to confirm one measurement now shows up in seconds. See how DroneDeploy supports heavy civil projects like this one: https://bit.ly/4wJ94wB #DroneDeploy #ConstructionTech #TheSiteVisit #Infrastructure