What changed at the site, read from above.
Early access to an annual drone or aircraft imagery review of layout, branding and condition across your franchise network. It tells you which sites to send an auditor to first.
- GSD
- <10cm
- Cadence
- Annual
- Platform
- Drone/ crewed aircraft
- Spectral
- RGB
The sites nobody has seen lately
The brand book says what a forecourt should look like. The audit is how you find out whether it does. An area consultant or auditor drives to each site with the scorecard, checks the canopy fascia, the pole sign, the pump island layout, the shopfront and the state of the car park, then writes up the non-conformances and logs them against the franchisee with a date to put them right. Where something is badly off, someone goes back.
The sites on the route get seen properly, and the rest wait. The visit cycle is set by travel time and headcount, so the remote forecourt, the long-standing franchisee with a clean record and the site off the main trunk road go long between visits. A faded canopy panel, a sign face from the old identity, a pump island that was re-laid without anyone telling you: these are found when the auditor finally arrives, or when a customer complains, or when a regional manager drives past. Meanwhile the network audit is supposed to be a picture of the whole estate, and you know it is a picture of the part you could reach.
Early access gives you a first look at every site from above, once a year, with a flag wherever a site differs from last year's pass. It does not do the audit. It tells you where the audit matters most.
Limit L1A screening read, not an audit
What an early-access site read holds
Early participants get these for their own network, ahead of a general release. The first pass over a site becomes its baseline.
- Shop
- Canopy
- Pump islands
- Pole signflagged
- Car park
- Bins
Schematic, not imagery. One site, drawn as the elements a read looks at.
2.1
Per-site condition read
Table keyed to site ID
One row per site for the layout, signage and general condition that show from above, with the imagery for that site alongside. It opens in a spreadsheet or whatever you log site visits in.
Limit L2Only what shows from above
2.2
Change flag list
List of flagged sites
From the second annual pass, the sites where the imagery differs from the prior pass, with what looks different. A flag is a reason to look, not a finding against the franchisee.
Limit L4Detection is unproven
Limit L5Once a year, weather permitting
2.3
Network summary
One-page roll-up
The flagged sites across the whole network in one view, so you can set the year's visit order before the audit calendar is fixed.
How it works
Network in
You send your site list with site IDs and addresses, or coordinates if you hold them, and say what the brand book expects at a site.
Imagery
Drone or crewed aircraft imagery is sourced once a year for each site, in a weather window that allows it.
Limit L5Once a year, weather permitting
Analysis
Each site is read for layout, signage and condition, and compared with its prior pass once there is one.
Limit L3Resolution
Delivery
You get the per-site read, the flag list and the network summary, ready to sort into your visit calendar.
Where it fits in your workflow
- Before the audit calendar is set.
- Use the flag list to decide which sites get an in-person visit this year and which can wait. The visit itself stays as it is: the auditor scores the site against the brand book, and the corrective action notice goes out from you.
- For brand standards reporting.
- The network summary is a snapshot of how many sites show a difference from the last pass, useful in the conversation about where re-imaging money goes.
- When a site joins the network.
- The first read is a baseline. Later passes are compared against it, so a new site's starting condition is on record.
Limits
- L1
A screening read, not an audit
This does not replace an in-person brand standards audit and produces no certified audit outcome. A flag is where to look. The finding is still the auditor's.
- L2
Only what shows from above
Interior condition, equipment that works or does not, and anything under the canopy or behind a building are out of reach. Signage that is the right shape can still be unreadable or wrong in the small print, and this will not catch that.
- L3
Resolution
Under 10 cm a pixel is small enough to tell a canopy panel, a pole sign and a pump island apart and to see a change in layout. Fine print, small decals and lettering on a pump are not readable.
- L4
Detection is unproven
Early access means how reliably flags catch a real departure across different site types is still being proven. Some will be false alarms and some departures will be missed. We make no detection promise.
- L5
Once a year, weather permitting
One pass per site per year. Nothing continuous, and a site's pass can slip if the weather will not allow flying or imaging. The first year has no prior pass, so no change flags.
Who it's for
For
- Brand standards managers at a fuel or quick-service franchisor who run an annual network audit
- Teams whose visit cycle leaves some sites unseen for long stretches
- Networks with enough sites that visiting each one every year is a budget fight
Not for
- Anyone looking to replace the in-person audit or a certified brand audit
- Interior checks: shop condition, hygiene, equipment function
- Continuous or real-time site monitoring
- Single-site owners with no franchise network to compare
Questions before early access
Does this replace our in-person brand standards audit?
No. It is a screening read. It points the auditor at the sites where a visit matters most, and the audit outcome still comes from a person at the site.
Is this a finished product?
No. It is early access, and we are still proving coverage across site types and how reliable the flags are.
What can it miss?
Interior condition, signage legibility problems, equipment that does not work and anything not visible from above.
How current is a read?
Annual per site. It is not continuous monitoring.
Does weather affect delivery?
Yes. Each site's pass needs a day when flying and imaging are possible, so timing can move.
Can we test it against our own audit results?
Pick sites your auditors have already scored and compare our read with their scorecards once it arrives. That is the fairest way to judge whether the flags are worth using.
What do you need from us?
A site list with IDs and locations, and your brand standards so we know what departs from them.
Who owns the imagery and the results?
Ownership and licence terms are agreed before anything is ordered. Ask for them early if your legal team needs to review them.
How is early access priced?
We talk about price once we know your network and what you would include.
Tell us about your network.
Say how many sites you run and what the audit cycle looks like now. We will tell you straight whether early access fits.
Request early access