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Insights · Analysis + Field Notes
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Analysis from the Flybi team — the geophysics, economics, and operating principles behind industrial drone intelligence. Plus field notes from actual sites, where theory meets weather.
Drone aeromagnetic vs fixed-wing — the honest numbers
When a drone beats a Cessna for exploration, when it doesn't, and the decision-matrix.
Read → AnalysisHow accurate is drone stockpile volumetry, really?
Variance sources, weighbridge reconciliation, and why sub-2% is the honest floor.
Read → AnalysisStockpile Intelligence ROI — the CFO-grade math
What a ₹3-4L monthly engagement prevents, prices per tonne, and the audit-cost calculus.
Read → AnalysisCounter-UAS in India — the 2026 landscape
Detection vs mitigation, legal scope, sensor fusion, and what critical-infrastructure buyers should ask.
Read → AnalysisThe geospatial data moat — why software eats survey
The compounding effect of baseline surveys, historical deltas, and platform-lock.
Read → AnalysisWhat CFOs should ask their drone vendor
The six questions that reveal whether a vendor is selling flight hours or selling answers.
Read → Field NoteCalibrating a magnetometer in the wrong hemisphere
An anomaly 40 gammas off, a reversed base station — and why it still produced usable exploration data.
Read → Field NoteThe three-minute pitch that lost us a deal
And the real ICP that emerged after — a founder-level post-mortem of a qualified lead we didn't close.
Read → Field NoteWhat a week on a mine site teaches
What a month in the office doesn't — the small operating realities that shape our product decisions.
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