Raad

It’s 2025. Drone pilots are the invisible backbone of modern society, safeguarding the physical infrastructure that keeps America running. From the skies, they ensure our bridges are strong, our roofs remain sealed, and our power lines keep communities lit. So far, pilots have operated exclusively to protect and advance the physical domain. Today, that changes. Raad was founded to massively expand the GDP of the drone industry, making it easy for pilots to source and deliver meaningful work. We've since helped our pilots land jobs across many US states. While construction companies, landlords, insurance carriers, and utilities derive enormous value from skilled drone monitoring, a new mega-buyer has entered the game: AI developers training the next generation of generative media and computer vision models. For AI to advance, it needs high quality data. But the internet’s entire archive of images and videos has been scraped by big companies like OpenAI and Meta. Because media models have been trained on mainly human-centric images and video, AI can flawlessly create influencers, celebrity look-alikes, and anime, but it struggles to accurately reconstruct real-world environments—streets, factories, infrastructure, topography, and weather events. So here’s the real challenge: How can AI models gain a deeper, more physics-aware understanding of reality if they’ve already consumed all readily available visual data? The answer lies in building novel, proprietary pipelines for high-fidelity video data. Raad is looking where others aren’t. The global drone pilot community holds the key that unlocks the future of real world reality generation: millions of hours of immersive, sweeping aerial footage that capture the nuances of motion, weather, lighting, material properties, and environmental conditions...just sitting on our hard disks collecting dust. No one pilot’s aerial footage is worth very much, but collectively, our footage represents one of the most valuable troves of pixels for AI training purposes. ? Raad is rolling out the largest drone video data campaign ever - “Fuel AI” Pilots can compete, earn points, and climb the leaderboards by uploading unused video footage, flying active bounties targeting particular physical environments, and referring other pilots to Raad. By doing so, drone pilots will contribute directly to the frontier of digital infrastructure—shaping and teaching modern AI models. Thank you to our beta users who have already uploaded hundreds of Gigabytes of aerial footage. We invite you to go join them. If you are an existing Raad pilot, your account has now been activated. To start earning rewards, click the link in the comments section.