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The dashboard your operation runs from.
BOLD AERIAL™ · LIVE DASHBOARD
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SCREENSHOT · BOLD AERIAL™ DASHBOARD · YOUR REVENUE, PIPELINE AND TOP CLIENTS AT A GLANCE
THE OPERATING SYSTEM FOR DRONE BUSINESSES
Quote, propose, comply, invoice from one platform. Built for commercial operators working under CASA, FAA and CAA NZ, by a working drone pilot, not a SaaS designer who has never held a controller on a 40-knot day with a client waiting on deck.
THE PROBLEM
OPERATOR REPORT · 2026
Most commercial drone operators run their business across five disconnected apps. A spreadsheet for quoting. A Word document for proposals. A folder of compliance PDFs no client wants to read. A flight logger that does not know what was quoted. An accounting tool that does not know what was flown.
That stack costs four to eight hours a week to keep aligned. The hours are unbillable. The seams cost jobs at procurement audit. And every quote that takes ninety minutes loses to the operator who quoted in twelve.
Most operators flew before they sold. The aircraft is the easy part. The business around it is what bleeds margin, loses tier-one bids, and pushes weekend hours into Sunday night.
The problem is not that you are bad at business. No one has built the operating system for the work. Until now.
THE BOLD METHOD · THE CYCLE
PRICE · PROPOSE · PREPARE · DELIVER · INVOICE · REVIEW
The cost calculator works out your real margin on every job before the proposal goes out. Day rate, post-production, travel, the floor below which you lose money. You price from the floor up, not from a guess.
Strike, Return and Pitch templates built for drone work generate a branded PDF in minutes. Clients get a document that matches your footage. You get the yes before they cool off. Paid plans white-label it.
JSA, pre-flight checklist, the can-I-fly-here airspace check and a weather go or no-go, all on the job. CASA, FAA Part 107 and CAA NZ built in, each job reading its own country. You walk to the site with the paperwork done.
Import your DJI and DroneLogBook flights, or log them on the job. The flight map plots every takeoff, so the coverage record a client or an auditor asks for is already drawn.
Accept a job and the invoice is one step away. Push it to Xero or QuickBooks Online, or take payment through PayPal, without re-keying the numbers into a fourth app.
Growth analytics show the shape of your business. Which sectors pay, which clients return, where the margin really sits. The numbers you need before you decide what to chase next.
ONE ACCOUNT · THREE REGULATORS
CASA · FAA · CAA NZ
Work under CASA, FAA and CAA NZ, in any combination. Schedule a job in a new country and Bold Aerial™ reads the site location and applies that country’s airspace, rules, citations, units and tax automatically. An Australian job reads CASA. A US job reads FAA. A New Zealand job reads CAA NZ. No setting to remember, no second tool, no reconfiguring.
Most platforms make you pick one regulator. Bold Aerial™ runs all three on the same account.
If you work both sides of the Tasman, you stop carrying two systems in your head.
LIVE FROM THE COCKPIT
BOLD AERIAL™ · LIVE DASHBOARD
SCREENSHOT · BOLD AERIAL™ DASHBOARD · YOUR REVENUE, PIPELINE AND TOP CLIENTS AT A GLANCE
MOD-Q · COST CALCULATOR
MOVE THE FOUR SLIDERS · WATCH THE MATH
The day rate you quote is not the money you keep. Crew hours, your real per-hour crew cost, fuel, kit depreciation, insurance, currency. The hidden costs that turn a $1,800 day into a $700 day if you do not see them coming.
Drag the four sliders. The right panel shows what the job actually pays you, after the costs you can name and the costs most operators forget.
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This is one tool inside Bold Aerial™. Get the rest free.
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WHAT YOU LOSE WHEN YOUR TOOLS DO NOT TALK
WHY THIS EXISTS
OPERATOR FILE · #0979
Rod Matsumoto holds CASA ReOC #0979 and RePL with comprehensive public liability cover. 6,500 flights across maritime, mining, and defence, with Netflix-credited cinematography work and a 25-year background building business systems before building this one.
Bold Aerial™ exists because every tool he tried was designed by someone who had never held a controller on a 40-knot day with a client waiting on deck. The compliance pack was generic. The quoting tool did not know the kit. The proposal builder produced documents the procurement officer rejected.
This is the operating system he wrote for himself, then opened it to operators who run their drone business like a business.
FOUNDER · BOLD AERIAL™ · CHIEF PILOT
THE PLATFORM · WHAT YOU GET
ONE PLATFORM · QUOTE TO INVOICE
Work out your real margin before the proposal goes out. Day rate, post-production, travel, the costs that quietly eat the job. You price from the floor up, not from a guess.
Strike, Return and Pitch templates built for drone work. A document that matches your footage, sent before the client cools off. Paid plans white-label the PDF.
JSAs, custom checklists and a hazard library mapped to CASA, FAA Part 107 and CAA NZ. Land access consent captured and kept. The safety paperwork clients ask for, ready before they ask.
The can-I-fly-here check reads the site and flags the airspace. Weather go and no-go on your own limits, with an alert when a site turns. The call you would have made at 6am, made for you.
Import DJI logs and DroneLogBook exports. Aircraft, batteries, cameras and gimbals in an equipment register, with service schedules that tell you what is due. Save the sites you fly often and reuse them.
Takeoff pins and a heatmap of everywhere you have flown. The coverage record a client or an auditor asks for, already drawn.
Ask Wingman to approve a flight plan and it checks the JSA, the aircraft, your credentials and the live weather, then records a Chief Remote Pilot sign-off or tells you exactly what is missing. Ask if you can fly a site and it checks the airspace. Set a wind alert and it watches the conditions for you. It still answers any question about a job, a price or a reg.
A pipeline that moves a lead from first call to paid, with the activity timeline beside it. No more chasing a thread across three inboxes to remember what you promised.
Owner, admin and member roles, with you in control of who sees what. Add a pilot, set their access, remove it when they leave. One account, not a spreadsheet of logins.
Push to Xero or QuickBooks Online, or take payment through PayPal, without re-keying the numbers into a fourth app.
OPERATOR GUIDES
WRITTEN BY OPERATORS · NOT MARKETERS
What defence, mining, and maritime clients actually want to see, and the drone-specific hazards generic templates miss.
The five cost variables operators overlook. Australian day rates by sector built in.
Pricing, proposals, invoicing, and post-job review processes that hold under load.
FROM THE BLOG
WRITTEN BY OPERATORS · NOT MARKETERS
CLEARED FOR LAUNCH
Quote, propose, comply and invoice in one platform. Spin up a free account and run your first job through it today. No card needed.
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