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Build a business worth running.
Explore the commercial cleaning opportunity, understand the costs, and see how SkyPSI helps with equipment, training, support, and finding your own customers.
Build the Whole Business
Existing Cleaning Businesses
From Rappelling to Drone Cleaning
Add drone washing to a rope-access cleaning business without mistaking the aircraft for the whole cleaning system.
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Complete Cleaning
Where Drone Washing Fits
See where drone washing fits inside a complete commercial window and exterior cleaning scope.
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Job Economics
Commercial vs. Residential Window Cleaning
Compare how residential and commercial window cleaning scopes, access, crews, and pricing decisions differ.
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Sales and Marketing
Why Drone Cleaning Businesses Fail
Cleaning businesses run short on customers before skill. See the sales, estimating, and cash-flow gaps, and how SkyPSI helps you close each one.
4 min read →Job Economics
Commercial Drone Cleaning Job Sizes
Use three planning bands to size commercial drone-cleaning opportunities before you price a property.
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Sales and Marketing
Win Commercial Drone Cleaning Contracts
A high-level commercial prospecting system for cleaning operators: property, buyer, offer, proof, next step, and follow-up.
4 min read →Before You Fly
Legal Risks of Drone Cleaning
Understand the main FAA, aircraft-weight, dispensing, insurance, site-safety, and environmental questions in commercial drone cleaning.
5 min read →U.S. Robotics Policy
FCC Drone and Robotics Restrictions
A plain-English review of the FCC Covered List, foreign-produced drones, advanced robots, and the U.S. industrial-policy trend.
5 min read →Commercial Opportunity
How Drone Cleaning Can Double Jobs
Reduce access cost on suitable work and use the same annual budget for more frequent cleaning.
4 min read →Starting a Business
Working-Class Robotics
Build a Robotics-Enabled Service Business
Robots widen what a small crew can deliver. See what an operator builds around professional cleaning equipment to win and finish the work.
5 min read →Starting a Business
Start a Cleaning Business
Start a cleaning business by choosing a service, pricing the full cost, winning customers, and comparing independent, franchise, and supported equipment paths.
5 min read →Starting a Business
Start a Pressure Washing Business
Start a pressure washing business with the right customer, rig, pricing, compliance, and a clear test for when drone cleaning improves the job economics.
5 min read →Operator guide
Add drones to your business
Keep your truck, rig, chemicals, insurance, and customers. Add a commercial cleaning drone, reach the higher elevations, and see what the step up costs.
4 min read →Before You Fly
Funding the Build
SBA Loans and Startup Cost
What it costs to start a drone washing business, and how SBA 7(a) small loans, microloans, and equipment financing cover the operator side of the build.
7 min read →Licensing and Certification
Drone Pilot Licensing
Flying a drone for work requires an FAA Part 107 remote pilot certificate. The eligibility rules, the knowledge test, TSA vetting, and staying current.
4 min read →Insurance
Operator Insurance
Operators are independent businesses that carry their own insurance. See the coverage a commercial cleaning job calls for and how the requirements reach you.
4 min read →Featured Research
Field Engineering
Cleaning Drones Above 200 Feet
FAA altitude rules, the 55-pound Part 107 boundary, hose load, tie-offs, and what must be proven before a cleaning drone works above 200 feet.
5 min read →Industry History
History of the Pressure-Washing Drone
The pressure-washing drone story runs from Apellix's 2014 patent filings to Lucid's Y Combinator and venture-funded route, then ABZ and a wider field.
5 min read →Company Background
Apellix Company Background
Apellix is a founder-led Jacksonville manufacturer with 2014 patent roots, U.S. manufacturing, and its own Army and NDAA claims.
5 min read →Build With SkyPSI
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Commercial properties offer larger scopes and repeat maintenance opportunities. SkyPSI brings the flight kit, training, support, and marketing guidance together from $3k a month. Bring your current setup and target customers to a conversation about fit.