Your drones are flying. The paperwork is still on WhatsApp.
If an aircraft picks something up tonight, how long does it take to turn that into something you would hand to a client’s insurer? For most operators the honest answer is "a while, and someone retypes it into Word".
- Alerting
- WhatsApp, GPS-pinned, with escalation
- Evidence
- SHA-256 on ingest, append-only custody
- Output
- A4 court-ready PDF, SAST, plain language
What actually goes wrong
The flying is the part that works. Your pilot is licensed, the aircraft is maintained, the patrol happens. What breaks is everything after it.
A controller sees something on the feed. They phone or WhatsApp the ground team from a personal phone. Somebody drives out. Later — sometimes days later — an incident report gets written from memory, and the footage sits in a folder on a laptop with a filename like WhatsApp Video 2026-09-14 at 02.11.47.mp4.
Every one of those steps is a place the record and the reality can differ, and every one of them is a place an opposing attorney will look.
What incident software has to do to be worth having
Detect and log without anybody typing. A geofence crossing should raise its own incident, at the moment it happens, with the position and the aircraft on it.
Reach the ground team where they actually are. In South Africa that is WhatsApp, with a map pin, and an acknowledgement that stops the escalation to the next person on call.
Seal the evidence on arrival. A SHA-256 digest computed on ingest — not on export — so anyone can later prove the file has not changed.
Produce a document somebody else can read. One incident, one PDF, with the timeline, the evidence digests and the full access history on it.
Built for here, not localised for here
Prices in rands. Timestamps in SAST, with the zone printed. Paystack as the primary rail. POPIA retention as a setting rather than a policy document nobody executes.
And two things deliberately absent: no facial recognition, and no matching against SAPS or any police database. Neither is on the roadmap.
See a real incident record
A sandboxed night shift — one aircraft, one estate, one intruder — ending in a real court-ready PDF. No signup, nothing to install.