Coastline seen from above at dawn, a dotted flight path linking several viewpoints along the beach.

Drone pilots

Sell aerial virtual tours to your clients

You already know how to fly and bring back a clean sphere. What is missing is what comes after: a virtual tour the client understands, hosting that holds for years, and a reason to call you again next season. That is exactly what Moorea gives you.

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The model

How the money flows

Four moments, and none of them asks you to share your margin. We do not sell shoots: we have no reason to compete with you.

Step 01
You invoice the flight
Site survey, permissions, capture, retouching: that is your trade and your rate. We take no commission on it, and we never even see the amount.
Step 02
The venue pays for hosting
The tour lives in a space in the client’s name, and the client holds that subscription. You step out of the hosting role - and out of the Saturday-evening call when a link stops working.
Step 03
Your credit stays
A clickable “Produced by {your name}” shows inside the player, free of charge and only if you want it. Every visitor sees who made the tour.
Step 04
You come back next year
A venue changes: a new pool, a new course, a new season. Reflying a few viewpoints is an easier sale than the first one, and the public URL never moves.

Why letting the client pay for hosting changes everything

Because the alternative - hosting your clients’ tours yourself - slowly turns you into an unpaid infrastructure provider.

The usual pattern is familiar: the contractor keeps every tour on their own account, because “it is simpler that way”. Three years later they carry fifteen tours, fifteen liabilities and no recurring revenue - and the day they raise their hosting fee, their clients discover they never owned anything.

One space per client turns the relationship around. The venue owns its tour, the leads it captures and its analytics; it pays for hosting the way it pays for its website. You remain the producer, with access to that space, and you invoice what you actually do: fly and produce.

And if the relationship ends, nobody is held hostage: a tour transfers from one space to another without changing its public address. That is written into the product, not into a contract.

Two buildings on either side of a lagoon, linked by a dotted current flowing between them. — You invoice the flight, the venue pays for its hosting: two invoices, and no commission in between.

Your toolkit

What Moorea puts in your hands

Official demos you can showOne published demo tour per industry, ready to send before a meeting. You do not have to fly for free to prove what you are selling.See the industries
Tours that never expireNo view quota, no bandwidth cap, no expiry date on a delivered tour. Your client pays for hosting and keeps the tour - printed QR codes stay valid for years.How hosting works
White-label client spacesThe client’s logo, colour and domain on their tour; the Moorea badge removed. You deliver under their brand, not ours.
The Atelier for sign-offYour client annotates the exact viewpoint to fix, you reply, you resolve. One review round instead of six ambiguous emails.
A QR kit in their brandPrint-ready cards and posters for the venue’s reception desk - a physical deliverable the client can see, and can be billed for.
Lead capture inside the tourA form placed in the tour, whose leads land with the client. This is the argument that turns “a nice picture” into “a sales tool”.

The Atelier

Sign-off happens inside the tour

Your client annotates the exact viewpoint to fix, you reply, you resolve: one review round instead of six ambiguous emails.

The Atelier is a layer: you switch it on to work, you close it to deliver, and the published tour keeps nothing of it. An annotation is not a hotspot - a visitor to the public player sees no trace of one.

A link, not an accountYour guests come in through a dedicated, revocable link. Nothing to sign up for.
Anchored in the sphereEvery remark sits on the viewpoint and the angle it is actually about.
Nothing survives deliveryYou resolve, you close the layer, and the published tour ships without a note.

The Atelier on the producer’s side: the client’s remark, pinned on the viewpoint it refers to.

Where the money is

Where the demand is

Venues that spread out, and venues that sell a stay: the places for which aerial is not a gimmick but the only honest way to show themselves.

The questions we get asked

Do I need an exclusivity agreement or approval?

No. No partnership contract, no territorial exclusivity, no prior validation. You create an account and you work.

Who owns the tour, me or the client?

Whoever’s space hosts it - and that is a choice, not a fate. The practice we recommend is a space in the client’s name, because it is the only one that holds over time. A tour stays transferable in both directions.

What happens if my client stops paying?

Their space is suspended: the tours stop being served publicly and show a neutral page - never an error, because QR codes are printed and out in the world. Nothing is destroyed, and payment brings everything back exactly as it was.

What should I charge for a shoot?

It depends on the venue and the number of viewpoints. We have consolidated the ranges actually charged in a dedicated guide - useful for placing yourself without undercutting the market.

Do I need to know how to stitch panoramas?

Not necessarily: most recent 360-capable drones stitch the sphere in-camera, and that is enough for the majority of deliverables. If you stitch on the ground for extra resolution, the platform accepts TIFF and PNG up to 32,000 pixels wide.

What if I would rather host on my own account?

That is possible and perfectly legitimate, especially for a portfolio or a demo tour. The hosting page covers both setups and what each one implies.

The account is free, and so is the first tour

Publish a demo tour with your own panoramas, and use it as a portfolio at your very next meeting.

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Sell aerial virtual tours to your clients

How the money flows

You invoice the flight

The venue pays for hosting

Your credit stays

You come back next year