Aerial survey & inspection · Devon · 2026
Exeter Drone Surveys. A specialist site engineered to win commercial inspection work.
01 — Context
The brief
Exeter Drone Surveys is the specialist aerial-survey arm of Hembury Contracting — CAA-licensed roof inspections, thermal imaging, building surveys, planning-application footage. A different audience, a different sell, a different site.
The brief was to spin out a credible specialist brand from day one — not a sub-page of the parent contracting site, but a standalone presence that reads like a survey practice in its own right.
Target buyer: a property manager, surveyor or commercial landlord deciding which licensed operator to brief on a job worth four figures upwards. The site has 30 seconds to look like the right call.
02 — Approach
Our approach
We led with the work — drone footage, thermal imagery, real survey deliverables on the page rather than stock-library "drone over field" hero shots. Commercial buyers want to see what they’ll receive, not be sold the idea of drones.
Service architecture mirrors how commercial buyers actually procure: clear inspection types (roof, thermal, dilapidation, planning), clear deliverables, clear CAA-licence credentials front-and-centre. No hidden "request a quote" funnel.
On the technical side we re-used the proven Next.js + Vercel stack from the parent build — same performance bar, same SEO discipline, faster path to launch because the foundations were already battle-tested.
03 — Outcome
The outcome
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Average enquiry value sits materially above the parent business average — a function of the site reading specialist, not generalist.
The split-brand experiment validated: Exeter Drone Surveys is now its own line of work, with its own pipeline, while continuing to share back-office operations with Hembury Contracting.
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04 — Tech stack
What we built it on.
See it live
Exeter Drone Surveys is shipping at exeterdronesurveys.co.uk.
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