Uber for the field. A Tesla-hybrid air network for any size of land.
A landowner books a job. AI matches, batches, and holds for weather.
Someone flies it — a licensed crew today, a Canopy dock when a week has no crew.
The customer watches live. The receipt writes itself.
We sell a completed job. Not a satellite. Not a drone. Not a pesticide.
The problem
The window opens. The plane is booked. The small plot is last.
62.8% of EU farms are under 5 ha
Romania 90%. Greece ~73%. Bulgaria 61%. Today’s DaaS copies a 10–25 acre minimum and locks out the majority. Eurostat, April 2026.
Spray is still a phone call
No live view. No automatic legal receipt. Satellite sits in another tab. The farmer supplies the mix and hopes the crew shows.
The expensive steel is empty
A private sat fleet over Bulgaria is empty most of the day. A dock with no jobs is the same mistake on the ground. Photons over empty land are waste.
The law is moving, unevenly
US and Canada treat a drone as aerial if the label already allows air. The EU still bans routine pesticide spray. Bulgaria named UAS in 2024. Greece did not.
The company
One job object. Any size of land. Any size of air company. Instant, like a ride.
Request → match + batch → fly → live → receipt. Satellite and weather on the same map. A duty officer books the same OS for a fire or a flood. 0.2 ha and 10,000 ha share one request.
01 · Request
Request
Landowner or duty desk. Mapped plot. No hectare minimum.
02 · Match + batch
Match + batch
AI pools nearby small jobs so the sortie still pays.
03 · Fly
Fly
Licensed operator, or later canopy_fleet. One queue.
04 · Live
Live
Customer watches the pass the way a rider watches a car.
Sentinel free. Commercial EO only on booked hectares.
Why now
The stack just became a company.
Certificates
US
1,710 unmanned Part 137 certificates vs 1,750 crewed (June 2025). Custom drone spray $15.17/ac in Nebraska 2026.
30 June 2026
Canada
30 June 2026: any aerial-labelled product may be applied by RPAS. Medium drones VLOS without SFOC.
Pilot geography
Bulgaria
2024 Act names spray drones, sets a weather envelope, and makes the receipt a public log. EnduroSat next door.
Dispatch, do not build
Hardware
XAG shipped the dock + mixer kit (July 2026). DJI Dock has a Brazil BVLOS path. We dispatch their kit. We do not build it.
Automation
AI
Match, batch, weather-hold, and a legal receipt from telemetry are now software. That is the product.
Regulation
EU law
Omnibus drone exemption is proposed, not law. First movers who already have the OS and the receipt win when it lands.
Product
The OS above the field
CueSentinel $0 + weather. Commercial EO on booked ha only.
Live telemetryCustomer and PIC share one map.
Weather holdHold the job until the window opens.
HubCanopy Job OS
One job object. Any size of land. Any size of flyer.
RequestLandowner or duty desk. No hectare minimum.
Match + batchPool nearby small plots so the sortie pays.
FlyLicensed crew, or later canopy_fleet.
ReceiptBFSA / EASA / insurer fields from telemetry.
Automation
AI runs the job, not a slide
1
Cue — Sentinel + weather + optional commercial EO on booked hectares. Hold the job until the window opens.
2
Match + batch — AI pools nearby small plots so the sortie pays. 0.2 ha is first-class.
3
Fly — Operator app / later dock dispatch. Human or canopy_fleet, one queue.
4
Live — Customer watches the pass like a ride. Telemetry on the map.
5
Receipt — Telemetry writes BFSA / EASA / insurer fields. No typed PDF after the fact.
Business model
The landowner pays for a finished job
Landowner / duty desk
Pays for the job (application). Chem extra if fulfilled.
Completed job
Mapped plot · live view · receipt
Operator
Majority of the job. Handshake crew, or later a Canopy dock.
Chem / seed
Only if fulfilled on that job.
Canopy take
Match + live + receipt + satellite cue. Percentage unset. Set after 10 paid flights.
Application only. Chem extra. No invented take %.
Designed end-state
Option C — Tesla hybrid for the field
Supply pool A — operator birds
Any licensed crew, their Agras / XAG. Like Tesla owners adding cars.
Canopy Job OS
AI match · batch · weather hold · live · receipt. One queue.
Supply pool B — canopy_fleet
Owned dock only when a week is no crew. Like Tesla-owned robotaxis.
Schema now. Steel later. Same Request → Live → Receipt.
Customer
Watches the pass live. Any size of land.
One job object
Human crew or dock. Same artefact.
Receipt
Operator-of-record written from telemetry.
Market · sourced, not a TAM cartoon
Price the job the way the buyer already pays.
Application only. Chem extra. No invented take. Labels on every figure.
Job
Public price
Source
US drone spray
$15.17 / acre avg
UNL 2026 custom survey, n=6
US ground boom
$9.85 / acre avg
UNL 2026, n=29
US industry avg
$13 / acre (2025)
ASDC survey; was $21 in 2024
Canada vendors
$14–18 / acre
Papple, AUAV. Setup $225–300
BG Trichogramma
€19.50 / ha
Vendor list. Spray card NOT FOUND
RO press 2024
70–200 lei / ha
Not a legal catalogue item
Forestry LiDAR CA
CAD $3,995 / first 100 ha
CropCopters, then $45/ha
Duty / fire ES
€100k–€250k / season
INFOCA RPAS tenders 2026
Planet SkySat
$6 / $12 / $40 per km²
Official list, min 25 km²
Sentinel-2
$0
Copernicus CDSE
Bulgaria lab: 5.01M ha UAA, 3.48M ha arable (MAF 2024). 5% of arable × one pass is a testbed, not the company.
Competition
Everyone owns a layer. No one owns the job.
Layer
Hardware
DJI Agras, XAG, Hylio, Pyka, Guardian
Commodity / geopolitically fragile. We dispatch. We do not build.
Layer
DaaS
Rantizo (US), local spray contractors
No satellite cue, no live customer view, no EU chem/reg receipt.
Layer
Analytics
DroneDeploy, Taranis, Sentera
Scout, do not book, fly, or write the legal artefact.
Layer
EO
Planet, Sentinel, Airbus, EnduroSat
Photons, not a field job. We buy residual pixels on booked hectares.
Layer
Duty fleets
Greece 100+ bases, DOI IDIQ, EMSA
Own the bird. We sell the job OS they can book.
Canopy
Canopy
Job OS + live + receipt + cue
Any size land. Any size flyer. Tesla-hybrid when density exists.
The next 12 months · the proof, not a valuation
Software and the first jobs. Default alive.
A good Sand Hill meeting is won on the next proof, not a $1B slide. Twelve months is the go / no-go. Unicorn-scale is the category we are building toward.
Now
This week
Handshake one BG Agras/XAG crew. Ship Request → Live → PDF receipt on one test plot. Call EnduroSat for Balkan tasking, not a bus.
Month 1
30 days
Five test jobs. Write ferry time, batching, cloud-kill. BFSA fields in the receipt schema. Sentinel + OpenWeather.
Quarter 1
90 days
First paid job. Stripe split stub. One chem talk (fulfilment). One fire/forest demo. Ask: was the gap no crew, or no pixel?
Go / no-go
12 months
10–30 paying jobs with live view and a receipt. Take % still unset until 10 paid. No dock buy. No FRAME Max. Go / no-go on density.
The moonshot
Unicorn-scale is earned by utilization.
Tesla is not valuable because it bought cars. It is valuable because one stack dispatches idle steel. Canopy is the same bet on rural air: every weather window, every small plot, every duty cell, one job object. We do not forecast a $1B mark in month twelve. We design the company that can get there when the network is full.
Now
Year 0–1
OS + first 100 jobs. Operators bring birds. AI does match, batch, cue, receipt.
Then
Density
More crews. One chem partner. Cue on booked hectares. Take set from real flights.
End-state
Option C
First Canopy dock only in an oblast with demand and no crew. Same job object.
Network
Category
Agri + forest + duty on one OS, SE Europe then EU. Software-margin network.
Team and the ask
Velocity already ships. Canopy is next.
Founder
Who
Alexander Trifonov, CEO/CTO, Velocity EU Inc. Twenty-year Microsoft MSP/SI pivoting into product. Spark (UK colleges), Velocity Events, Velocity Print already shipping. Stack in hand: Vercel, Stripe, GitHub, Supabase, AI coding agents. Pilot geography: Bulgaria — regulation named, EnduroSat next door, lower CAC.
Raise
What we are raising for
Not a number on this slide. Seed money builds the Job OS and buys the first hundred jobs’ worth of residual pixels. Next hire slice: two engineers, one BG ops person, more crews. Not a cleanroom. Not a dock factory. Not FRAME Max. A Space Service slot only if the bottleneck is pixels, not crews. Ask us for the live cap table and the raise when you want the meeting.
No weapons. No offensive ISR. Civil retool = SAR, comms, software re-accreditation.
Book the job. Watch it live. Keep the receipt.
Canopy is Uber for the field, designed as a Tesla hybrid.
Software and the first jobs now. Steel when a week is no crew.
The moonshot is a full rural air network. The next proof is a live map on a Bulgarian plot.
