DFR is a rapidly growing category. There are multiple companies trying different approaches. This is a great thing for everyone! I’m sure we’ll all learn a lot over the next few years. But incident volume - not area coverage - as the key efficiency metric for most agencies is one of the most clear truths. Not all of our competitors agree on this yet, but I would bet (a lot) that they will come around if they get more deployments and experience under their belts.

Skydio’s cost-per-incident capacity is unmatched in the market today. Our cost-per-Dock is also quite a bit lower than our competitors and we have a longer response range thanks to built-in 5G, so a single Dock can cover more area, making our cost per area also lower for agencies that choose to deploy just a single Dock - but we focus less on that metric since it’s less important.

We’re passionate enough about using data to get good answers that we actually developed a simulator that uses real, histo