Who this is for
- Building owners and property managers facing a facade survey and wanting to know where the problems are before the scaffolding goes up
- Infrastructure operators inspecting bridges, towers, tunnels or plant with too few qualified inspectors and too many assets
- Manufacturers whose visual quality inspection depends on a handful of experienced eyes, and who want zero escapes without tripling the headcount
- Inspection contractors who spend more hours writing reports than looking at structures
The problem, stated plainly
Inspection is expensive because of the search, not the judgment. Nobody knows in advance which thirty percent of a facade has deteriorated, so a hundred percent of it gets scaffolded and tested. Nobody knows which welds on a line will fail, so every part gets the same look from an inspector whose attention is not the same at 4 p.m. as it was at 9 a.m.
Vision AI does not replace the judgment. It narrows the search: a first pass over every photograph, every frame, every part, that says where to send the person whose judgment matters. That reframing is what makes the economics work, and it is also what keeps the results defensible.
What we build
Facade and building inspection from photographs
Smartphone or drone photographs in, a ranked defect list out: cracks, tile lift, spalling, rust staining, water leak traces, each with a severity band and an urgency score so the report tells you what to do this quarter, not just what exists. The production version is the hosted facade inspection service on Airffic World; we also tune the same models to a client's own building stock and reporting format.
Infrastructure inspection from drone and camera footage
Bridges, transmission towers, tunnels and plant: detection of cracking, corrosion and deformation from drone imagery and fixed cameras, with the veteran inspector's criteria encoded into the model so the output is consistent between inspectors, seasons and years. Change detection against the previous survey is usually the most valuable feature.
Visual quality inspection for manufacturing
Line cameras and a model trained on your own defect history: scratches, foreign matter, color variation and shape defects flagged in real time. We start from the defect images you already have, which is why accuracy comes quickly, and we design the human review loop so the model keeps learning from what the line rejects.
Automated inspection reports
Every detected defect classified by location, type and severity and written straight into your report template, with the source image and the model's confidence attached. Report writing is where inspection hours disappear; this is where most clients see the first return.
Where the aviation model shows
Aircraft maintenance does not strip the airframe; it follows the system that showed an indication. That is the inspection philosophy here: a first pass that indicates, a qualified person who confirms. It also means we are deliberate about the limits, because in aviation a tool that overstates its certainty is more dangerous than no tool.
The reasoning is set out in facade inspection without scaffolding, including where AI screening does and does not belong.
How an engagement runs
| Stage | What happens | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free consultation (30 min) | You describe the assets and the current inspection routine | A view on whether photographs or video can carry the first pass |
| Sample assessment | You send 20 to 50 representative images | A first read on detectability, at no cost |
| Workflow improvement, implemented (from ¥50,000, about 2 weeks) | Model tuned on your images and defect definitions | Measured precision and recall on your data, and a sample report |
| Whole-operation architecture, implemented (from ¥300,000) | Integration with cameras, drones or field apps; report automation | A working inspection pipeline your team runs |
| Operate and improve (from ¥20,000 / month) | New defect classes, seasonal recalibration, model monitoring | Accuracy that holds as the asset base changes |
Figures are indicative. If your case is a standard facade survey, the hosted service in Airffic World may be all you need, and we will say so.
What this will not do
A photograph shows the surface. Subsurface delamination, hidden corrosion and structural capacity are not in the image, and no model recovers information that is not there. Vision AI is a first-pass screen and a consistency tool; it does not replace a statutory inspection or a detailed survey by a qualified engineer, and every report we produce says so on its first page.