Every sortie is also a survey. We're building India's first drone-grounded crop-risk model — licensed to insurers and reinsurers who can't get this resolution any other way.
Book a DGCA-certified drone to spray pesticides, fertilizer or scare birds across paddy, ragi, coconut, areca and vegetables in Tumkur. 1 acre in 8 minutes. Launching Q3 2026.
From the AGRIDRONE BEP Value-Chain Report. Live operations begin Q3 2026 in Tumkur.
Every AGRIDRONE flight will carry LiDAR, 5-band multispectral, thermal, and cm-level RGB. The result: the highest-fidelity agricultural ground-truth dataset in India — licensed to crop insurers, reinsurers, and FinData desks who can't get this resolution from satellite at any price.
Data network effect: more flights → denser dataset → better-priced licenses → more buyers fund more flights. The loop runs only inside our fleet. Cropin uses satellite (10m resolution). SatSure uses satellite. We use drones (sub-decimeter) with a signed farmer consent rider. That's the data nobody else can buy at any price.
Every flight asks for explicit, DPDP-compliant consent before capture. In return, the farmer's crop-insurance premium drops 10–25%. They thank us for taking the data — and revoke their consent in 30 days if they ever want to.
Every farmer signs a tri-language (English / Kannada / Hindi) consent rider before capture. Voice-recorded signing. Revocable in 30 days. This is the moat artifact.
Crop-insurance premium discount of 10–25%, worth ₹1,500–3,750 per farmer per year. The farmer thanks us for taking the data.
A new entrant has no spray fleet, no FPO relationship, and no consent carrot. The consent rider is the dataset; the dataset is the moat.
Marut AG365 and IoTechWorld AgriBot platforms, 10-16L payload, RPTO-trained pilot on every flight.
10–16L payload drones. Standard, premium and plantation-grade chemistries on demand.
Liquid nano-urea and micronutrient sprays at 1/40th the volume of manual application.
Pre-programmed flight loops over paddy and ragi at dawn and dusk. No pilot on-site.
RGB + multispectral surveys. Plant counts, pest heat-maps, variable-rate prescriptions.
Pulled from the AGRIDRONE BEP Value-Chain Report — comparing one acre of paddy under manual knapsack spraying vs. drone application.
Source: AGRIDRONE Break-Even Value Chain Report.
WhatsApp your village name, crop, and acreage. We confirm price, drone, and slot in minutes.
Pilot, drone, payload and DGCA paperwork pull up at the field bund. 17 min of setup, including chemical mix.
Autonomous flight path, fine-droplet spray, no drift. You sign off, we send the flight log.
Tumkur is the launch hub — drones, pilots, payload, charging. Five spoke districts across Karnataka follow on a published timeline, all within a 90-minute drive of any field. Tamil Nadu and Kerala enter the catchment in 2028.
Farmer pays ₹2,000 for manual spray, gets ₹500 of net value. Margins evaporating in plain sight.
80% of farmers met had no working crop-insurance product. The product exists; procurement is broken.
FPOs are the real buying unit, not individual farmers. Sell to 1 FPO president, you've sold to 200 farms.
Pesticide drift onto roads, water, school yards. Manual spray is a public-health problem, not just a cost problem.
No agri-drone operator we met had scaled past a single state.
Option-pricing research scholar · 4 publications forthcoming in risk modeling. 1 year inside FactSet — knows how Bloomberg-class data buyers procure.
Operating B2B/B2C digital agency. 15+ active clients ranking #1 on Google for buyer-intent keywords.
18 Indian states · 3 months · March–June 2025. Walked, eaten with, and sold to the actual farmer.
Co-founder Sumit Pillai leads APAC B2B sales at a supply-chain SaaS company. Licensed photography-drone pilot, RPTO upgrade scheduled. Full-time on AGRIDRONE post-first-cheque.
“I price risk for a living. Agricultural risk is the largest unpriced asset class on Earth. AGRIDRONE creates the data to price it. — Sumin Pillai, Founder.”
Liberalized commercial drone ops in India.
Marut AG365 + IoTechWorld AgriBot certified — legal 10–16L spray drones now exist.
Farmer consent becomes an audit-grade legal asset, not a fluffy claim.
IRDAI pushing parametric crop products — needs per-acre ground truth that satellites can't deliver.
Fine-tuning aerial CV models dropped from ₹50L to ₹2L. Founder-led R&D is now feasible.
Climate change has broken global crop reinsurance pricing. Munich Re publicly cites lack of India ground truth as the binding constraint.
SatSure was founded in 2017 — pre-drone-rules. Cropin was founded in 2010 — pre-DPDP. Re-platforming a 7-year-old satellite-data company onto drones is hard. We are born in this window.
Tumkur first, Q3 2026. Tell us your district, crop and acreage. We'll send a confirmed quote and slot within 4 hours.
Drone-grounded crop-risk ground truth at sub-decimeter resolution, with a DPDP-compliant consent rider on every acre. Year-1 buyers: ICICI Lombard, Bajaj Allianz, HDFC Ergo, Skymet Risk.