LandSkyAI's October 2026 Newsletter
November 10th, 2026: Issue 39
A Word from Our Founder
LandSkyAI Family,
First, thank you, as always, for your continued support. It means a lot to me and to the whole team.
October was an awesome month for us. It was really interesting to see all the different projects going on across the company, from long-running sites we’ve protected for a while to new ones coming online. Every one brings something different, and that variety is a big part of what makes this work so fun.
We’ve continued to expand our RemoteOps team to keep up with the growing demand for our services around the world. Most of our focus over the last month has stayed on a few questions. How do we build better training tools? How do we keep making our operators even more efficient and, more importantly, more confident when something real happens? And how do we keep adding customer sites while holding the high level of service everyone expects from us? Those questions guide most of what we build and decide right now.
Swarm, our operator platform and client portal, is a big part of the answer. It also supports our reporting tools, and this month’s release put more control in our clients’ hands while freeing our operators to focus on alerts and live response. With more than 130,000 flights and 11,000 hours in the air behind us, Swarm and the way we run our operations are building a strong moat around the services we provide, and it gets harder to copy with every flight.
Something else I’m super proud to see is a management team starting to rise inside the company. These are people taking ownership, helping our operators grow, and keeping our standards high as we scale. I know they will help accelerate our growth from here.
Honestly, a lot of what we’re doing is the same stuff that has been working well for us. Not every month has to be impressive or groundbreaking. What matters is that we keep doing the basics well and don’t forget the simple things, like communicating clearly with clients and flying every patrol on time.
Our goal is to become the leader in this niche and beyond. I’m super excited about where we are and how this keeps accelerating. Thank you again for being part of it.
Best,
Jake Shild
Founder, LandSkyAI
What's Inside
⭐️ Overwatch at the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon
⭐️ 2027 Is Closer Than You Think: Start Your Drone Program on January 1st
⭐️ Swarm Updates: More Control in Your Hands
⭐️ Industry News: Security Buyers Are Planning for Drones
⭐️ October 2026 Blog Round-Up
⭐️ 130,000+ Flights and 11,000+ Hours in the Air
⭐️ Coming soon: November's MissionControl
Overwatch at the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon
On October 11, LandSkyAI flew aerial overwatch for the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, and the deployment was a success.
From a single tethered drone position inside the FAA security flight restriction over downtown Chicago, our team gave the event's Central Command a live aerial view of Grant Park and its surroundings, from before the race start through the post-race party.
9 hours 20 minutes of continuous live aerial coverage
About 320 acres of Grant Park under watch from one position
Zero unplanned landings, emergencies, or flight issues all day
Our pilots and SOC operator didn't wait to be told where to look. They actively scanned the park and the surrounding skyline, flagged what they saw to Central Command in real time, and supported every request that came in. We're proud to have helped keep one of the world's biggest races safe, and we look forward to doing it again.
Want to learn more about the operation, or bring aerial overwatch to your next event? Reach out to info@landsky.ai.
2027 Is Closer Than You Think: Start Your Drone Program on January 1st
We're turning the corner into the holiday season, and that means 2027 is only a few weeks away. Right now, security leaders everywhere are finalizing next year's budgets and deciding what makes the cut. For many of them, drone security is on the list.
Here's the catch: most organizations wait until January to get started. By the time planning, approvals, and installation wrap up, their first patrol is pushed into spring, and a quarter of the year has gone by unprotected.
The organizations that start now fly on day one. Getting your program moving between now and December means your drones are patrolling on January 1st, not April. With LandSkyAI, a Q4 start looks like this:
Site evaluation and patrol planning: We map your property and build routes around your perimeter, gates, and blind spots.
FAA approval, already done: Your site is evaluated and filed under LandSkyAI's existing BVLOS waiver, so there's no new waiver to wait on.
Installation and training: White-glove deployment of your drone-in-a-box system, plus onboarding for your team in the Swarm client portal.
Patrols live in the new year: Scheduled, alarm response, and on-demand patrols running 24/7 from day one.
Get the 2027 Drone Security Guide
To help organizations plan, we've put together our 2027 Drone Security Guide, available now on our website. It walks through the three ways to run a drone program (doing it yourself, relying on a local public safety program, or going fully managed), the patrols every property should run, what FAA approval for BVLOS flight really takes, and a full cost comparison. One example: a fully managed program runs 173K–191K a year less than staffing a 24/7 guard post.
Spoiler: fully managed is the only path that delivers consistent patrols from day one without building an aviation program yourself.
Ready to put drone security in your 2027 plan? Reach out to info@landsky.ai and we'll help you get flying on January 1st.
Swarm Updates: More Control in Your Hands
This month's Swarm release puts more of your security program directly in your hands. You can now request flights, adjust your patrol schedule, and talk to our operators from your own portal, while Swarm takes over launching every scheduled patrol on time.
Updates for clients
Revamped client portal: Your dashboard, flights, alerts, schedule, photos, and reports each have their own page. Pages load on their own and refresh automatically, so you find what you need faster.
Request flights from your portal: Need eyes on your site right now? Pick a route and time, or ask for a flight as soon as possible. Every request goes to our operators for review before launch.
Request schedule changes: Shape your patrol coverage without a phone call. Choose routes, days, and time windows, with flights on a set interval or at random times. Changes go live once our team approves them.
Chat with our operators from any device: Alert links now open a secure chat without signing in, so you can reply to an alert from your phone in seconds.
Clearer monthly reports: Each report shows mission completion, response times, and what changed at your site, for a clear picture of your coverage every month.
Updates for operators
Swarm now launches scheduled flights automatically. Each patrol starts at its scheduled time, with safety checks before every takeoff and a full record of every flight. That frees our operators to focus on alerts, client requests, and live response.
What this means for you
More consistent, on-time patrols, a direct line to the team flying them, and the ability to change your coverage as your site's needs change.
Already a client? Log in to your portal and try requesting a flight or a schedule change today. Want a walkthrough of Swarm, or curious what it would look like for your site? Email info@landsky.ai and we'll show you.
Industry News: Security Buyers Are Planning for Drones
Security budgets are starting to make room for drones. Securitas Technology's 2027 Global Technology Outlook Report, covered by ASIS International's Security Management in October, found that nearly 10% of the 16,000 client organizations it surveyed plan to adopt drone detection, drone surveillance, or robotics within the next 12 to 18 months. Among security technology providers, 88% expect autonomous technology to meaningfully change security operations over the next 5 to 10 years.
What security teams want drones to do:
Real-time incident monitoring: 29% of security and loss prevention professionals
Security patrols: 27%
Alarm verification: 23%
The same research found that 5.7% of organizations had a drone-related incident on their property in the past year, from accidental intrusions to deliberate surveillance.
The bigger takeaway: Drones deliver the most value when they're part of the wider security operation, not a standalone gadget. The report points to centralized platforms that bring drone video, flight data, and alerts together with cameras, access control, and intrusion detection.
Where LandSkyAI fits: Those three use cases are what our fully managed program runs every day: scheduled patrols, alarm verification flights, and live monitoring by our operators. Our Swarm platform keeps drone video, alerts, and flight records in one place and works alongside the security systems clients already have. And because we run the program end to end, from the drone-in-a-box hardware to FAA authority to the operators, organizations in that 10% can launch a drone program without building a drone team. For the sites worried about drones on the other side of the fence, our Drone Detection service covers that too.
The market is moving the same way. The subscription-based drone security market is projected to grow from about $4.06 billion in 2026 to nearly $10 billion by 2030, as more organizations choose managed drone services over owning and running fleets themselves.
Planning to be part of that 10%? Download our 2027 Drone Security Guide or email info@landsky.ai to see how a fully managed program would work at your site.
October 2026 Blog Round-Up
To read all of our October SkyBlogs and more, head to our website here!
Never miss a SkyBlog. Follow LandSkyAI on LinkedIn for new posts every week, or have a topic you want us to cover? Send it to info@landsky.ai.
130,000+ Flights and 11,000+ Hours in the Air
Last month we passed 100,000 drone patrols. We haven't slowed down: SkyGuard has now flown more than 130,000 flights and logged over 11,000 flight hours, all fully remote.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
More than 15 months of combined airtime, flown without a pilot on site
Patrols running day and night across every site we protect
Every flight adding real-world data that makes the next one sharper
The pace is the story. Each Hive we add puts more patrols in the air, and our operations team scales with it, so growth doesn't come at the cost of consistency.
Next stop: 200,000.
Want to see what 130,000 flights of experience looks like over your property? Email info@landsky.ai to schedule a live demo of our operation.
Coming soon: November's MissionControl
November is for giving thanks and looking ahead. Join us for a Mission Control that looks back on a record year for LandSkyAI and previews what's coming in 2027.
What's in this session:
The Year in Flights: How we went from 100,000 to 130,000+ patrols, and what 11,000 hours in the air has taught us.
Highlights of 2026: GSX, new partnerships, and the sites we brought online this year.
Looking Ahead to 2027: What Part 108 could mean for drone security programs, and how we're preparing.
Live Drone Demo: See the system in action.
Open Q&A: Ask us anything.
Mission Control is our town hall style webinar for getting to know LandSkyAI without a one-on-one meeting. We walk through our technology, real-world use cases, and how our drones are actually deployed in the field. Easy, no pressure.
Register now → https://luma.com/40twgs03
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