A screenshot of commercial tools for the assessment of real estate risk of Technologies site.
With kind technology site permission
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The first hurricane of the Atlantic 2025 season turns outside the East Coast, and there will certainly be more in its wake. Like the season after the season produces more intense storms causing increasingly expensive damage, the managers of commercial real estate facilities make real estate resilience a priority.
One of the ways to do so is technology. Progress has already been made in the fight against forest risks: companies like Pano AI, Satelytics and Aidash integrate satellite technology with artificial intelligence to identify particular fire risks, with large electric companies as customers.
And similar progress strive to reduce the risk of damage caused by hurricanes: Technologies site employs drones to help business managers of real estate facilities to see where vulnerabilities are in their properties and to approach them before these storms were. The site was originally a construction company.
“We have teamed up with our team of experts and engineers in sidewalks and roofs and facades and landscaping, and we have started to understand how we must be able to capture data from installations to be able to carry out engineering work and an examination of current properties,” said Austin Rabine, CEO of the site.
The site does not have its own drones, but uses freelancers across the country. Rabine says that the company questioned around 13,000 properties in 15 different countries and deploys drones on an annual basis for large customers who have hundreds or thousands of facilities.
The images, once captured, can be introduced into the artificial intelligence platform of the site which integrates the expertise of its own staff and analyzes properties, providing condition and risk reports for the outside of each installation.
“We also identify how they should spend their money over the next three to five years to ensure that their establishment is in good condition,” said Rabine. “So we create work and condition relationships using AI, then we have a lot of dashboard features that allow them to sort by their worst properties or their properties most at risk so that they can focus their attention on their highest needs.”
This predictive maintenance allows managers of properties and installations to see the problems before becoming responsibilities. That’s all, from drains clogged with trees invaded by vegetation with weak roofs.
For existing customers, the site offers to control drones on properties after any type of destructive event has occurred. The images can then be used as before and after assessments of insurance complaints.
The customers of the site include Prologis, a large real estate investment trust, as well as Link Logistics and large national retailers. Most customers will have at least 100 properties, as companies with smaller real estate fingerprints can more easily use human surveyors.
“When you have hundreds or thousands of properties, it has never really been a viable option to get an instantaneous, on an annual basis, from your facilities until technology like this,” said Rabine.