BuildBrief — Your Build, Briefed Weekly

The Problem

Your site moves fast. Your visibility doesn't.

Every week without clear documentation costs you time, money, and trust with your owner.

01

Owners keep asking for updates

Owners and investors can't visit the site every week — so they call, email, and ask. Your PMs spend hours every Friday assembling phone photos into something presentable.

02

Weekly reporting eats your team's time

Site walks, scattered photos in text threads, and manually-built slide decks. Your best people spend their week reporting on work instead of doing it.

03

No proof when disputes happen

Six months later, a subcontractor says the work was done differently. Without dated, organized visual records, it's their word against yours — and that's expensive.

What You Get

Not raw files. Finished communication.

A drone company hands you a folder of photos and wishes you luck. We hand you four finished products — ready to send to your owner, your investors, or your next bid committee, without your team touching a thing.

Every Week

Weekly Progress Report

A clean, organized PDF: this week's aerial photos, key areas documented, progress highlights, and notes — ready to forward to your owner every Friday. No assembly required on your end.

Every Month

Executive Progress Video

A polished 3–5 minute video: drone flyovers, month-over-month progress sequences, and milestone captions. Built to be sent straight to owners, investors, and leadership — it makes you look exceptional.

Licensed site capture specialist at work

Behind The Scenes

Full-Service Capture, Handled

How do we get the footage? That's our problem, not yours. A licensed, insured local specialist documents your site on a fixed weekly schedule — you never hire, schedule, or manage anyone.

Always On

The Living Archive

Every photo from every week, organized by date and location, stored for the life of your project. When a dispute, claim, or warranty question comes up months later — you have dated visual proof in seconds.

How It Works

From kickoff to first report in one week

1

Tell us about your site

A 20-minute call: location, project timeline, key areas to capture, and who receives the reports.

2

We take it from there

A licensed, insured local capture specialist is assigned to your site on a fixed weekly schedule. You never manage anyone.

3

Our production team builds

Every capture becomes your weekly report within 48 hours — and your executive video every month. Guaranteed turnaround, in writing.

4

You share & lead

Reports land in your inbox every Friday. Forward them, present them, and run your project with total visibility.

Who It's For

Built for teams running serious projects

General Contractors

Win trust on every project

Deliver owners a level of weekly communication your competitors can't match — and walk into your next bid with proof of how you run a site.

Developers & Owners

Eyes on your investment, anywhere

Building in another state? See exactly what happened on your site every week — without flying in or chasing your GC for updates.

Data Center & Industrial

Documentation at mega-project scale

Long timelines, demanding stakeholders, high stakes. Weekly visual records from groundbreaking to commissioning — and a full archive at handover.

Why Us

Drone companies deliver files.
We deliver the story of your build.

Anyone can fly a drone over your site. What nobody else does is turn that footage into finished, branded communication — a weekly report your owner reads and a monthly video your investors remember. That's a media production discipline, and it's all we do.

Reports and videos that are ready to forward — never raw footage to sort through
Production-grade quality from a dedicated media team, not a pilot with a phone
No software to buy, no staff to train, no pilots to manage
Fixed weekly cadence and a guaranteed 48-hour turnaround, in writing
A complete visual archive that protects you long after handover

Book a Free Pilot

Pricing

Simple pricing. Start with a pilot.

Every engagement starts with a one-month pilot on your real site — a discounted trial of the Standard plan. Love the reports? Continue at the standard rate. Don't? Walk away, no questions.

Pilot Month

$2,500

one-time · 4 weeks · first month only

Everything in Standard, for one month
4 weekly captures + 4 weekly reports
1 executive progress video
Full project archive
Zero commitment — decide after week 4

Start Your Pilot

Trusted by the people who run the site

▶ See a Sample Report

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Our owner used to call three times a week for updates. Now he gets the report before he asks. The monthly video ended up in their investor presentation — that made us look like the most organized builder they've worked with.

JM

James M.VP of Operations, Regional GC

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We're developing two facilities out of state. I haven't visited either site in six weeks and I know exactly where both projects stand. The archive alone paid for itself when a schedule dispute came up.

SK

Sarah K.Director of Development, Industrial Developer

FAQ

Questions, answered straight

No. We handle everything — the licensed pilot, the equipment, the processing, the production. You receive finished reports and videos. There is nothing to install, learn, or manage on your side.

A drone photographer delivers a folder of files and moves on. We run a weekly production system: consistent capture, a finished report within 48 hours, a professionally edited monthly video, and a permanent organized archive. You're buying the outcome your owner sees — not the flight.

A licensed (FAA Part 107), insured capture specialist from our vetted local network, assigned to your site on a fixed weekly schedule. We verify their insurance and flight authorizations before their first visit — and manage them entirely, so you never have to.

Within 48 hours of each capture — guaranteed in your service agreement. Weekly reports typically land Friday afternoon so they're ready for your Monday owner calls.

You do — 100% of it, documented in the agreement. We operate under NDA by default, and your archive is available to you for the life of the project and after handover.

We currently operate in Texas, Virginia, and Arizona, with national coverage available for large-scale and multi-site projects. If your site is elsewhere, ask — our pilot network expands with our clients.

You receive the complete organized archive — every capture, every report, every video — plus a final project-completion film covering groundbreaking to handover. Many clients use it in their next bid presentation.

Your site is being built right now.
Start documenting it properly.

Book a one-month pilot. We'll capture your site four times, deliver four weekly reports and one executive video — then you decide.

▶ See a Sample Report First

Prefer to talk first? Grab a time on our calendar, call (321) 710-9671, or email hello@getbuildbrief.com