Overview
Legacy Technology Lab is transforming how commercial property owners understand and manage the condition of their roofs. By combining precision aerial capture, geospatial analytics, and forensic inspection methodology, Legacy provides institutional property owners with objective infrastructure intelligence that helps extend roof life, reduce capital surprises, and improve long-term asset planning.
The company operates at significant scale within the commercial real estate sector. In 2026 alone, Legacy expects to conduct over 20,000 roof inspections across more than 1.4 billion square feet of roofing assets spanning industrial, logistics, data center, hospitality, and mixed-use portfolios.
Supporting this scale requires a highly disciplined field operations workflow capable of coordinating pilots, missions, documentation, and compliance across thousands of assets. To power that operational infrastructure, Legacy turned to DroneBundle.
DroneBundle provides the platform Legacy uses to organize drone missions, manage inspection projects, and maintain visibility across its rapidly growing field operations.
20,000+
roof inspections expected in 2026
1.4B+ sq ft
of roofing assets under management
The Challenge
Legacy operates in a segment of the drone industry that most software platforms were not designed for: institutional-scale infrastructure inspection.
While many drone tools focus primarily on flight planning or basic data storage, Legacy needed a platform capable of supporting a far more complex operational environment. The company required a system that could:
Coordinate pilots and missions across large geographic regions
Organize inspection projects across thousands of commercial assets
Maintain consistent documentation tied to specific properties
Improve communication between pilots, operations teams, and analysts
Track project progress and mission completion in real time
Maintain inspection history for repeat visits and lifecycle analysis
Without the right operational platform, managing drone inspections at this scale becomes fragmented quickly. Disconnected systems, inconsistent documentation, and manual coordination can slow down field teams and create unnecessary operational risk.
Legacy needed a solution built for professional drone operations, not hobby flying. That is where DroneBundle proved to be the right fit.
The Solution
Legacy implemented DroneBundle as a core component of its drone operations infrastructure. DroneBundle gives the Legacy team a structured environment where missions, pilots, inspection projects, and documentation can all be managed in one place.
Instead of treating drone flights as isolated events, Legacy can manage each mission as part of a coordinated inspection workflow tied to specific commercial properties.
With DroneBundle, Legacy is able to:
Organize inspection projects at the asset level: Each building inspection can be created as a dedicated project within DroneBundle, allowing imagery, mission data, and documentation to remain tied to the correct property.
Coordinate pilots and missions more efficiently: DroneBundle provides clear visibility into mission assignments, flight activity, and project status, allowing Legacy's operations team to coordinate pilots and inspections more effectively.
Maintain consistent operational documentation: Inspection imagery, flight records, and project information remain organized within a centralized system, improving documentation standards and reducing operational friction.
Improve communication across teams: Pilots, operations personnel, and downstream analysts can all work within the same project environment, ensuring alignment across the entire inspection workflow.
Preserve inspection history for lifecycle analysis: Commercial roof management requires understanding how assets change over time. DroneBundle allows Legacy to maintain a structured historical record of inspections, supporting long-term asset tracking.
Leadership Perspective
"There has been a massive gap in the drone operations software space for years. Most platforms were either built for hobby pilots or narrowly focused on flight planning, but they never solved the operational side of running a real drone program. DroneBundle fills that gap. It gives organizations like ours the ability to manage missions, documentation, and field operations in a way that actually scales. Just as importantly, their leadership team has been exceptional to work with—responsive, thoughtful, and clearly committed to building something that supports professional operators."
— Chris Guarnera, CEO, Legacy Technology Lab
"From an operations standpoint, DroneBundle has allowed us to scale our data collection in a much more organized and predictable way. When you're coordinating pilots, assets, and inspections across multiple properties, communication and visibility are everything. The platform has helped streamline how our team manages missions and documentation, and we've received consistently positive feedback from both our pilots in the field and our clients who rely on the clarity of that process."
— Dustin Pendergrass, Director of Operations, Legacy Technology Lab
"Operational transparency and compliance are critical to everything we do at Legacy. Before any mission is executed, we ensure pilots are properly vetted, airspace risks are mitigated, and insurance requirements are confirmed. DroneBundle gives us the visibility needed to manage that process with confidence. It allows our team to maintain clear documentation and provides our clients with assurance that every mission is being conducted with the appropriate level of due diligence."
— Alicia VanderWal, Director of Operational Enablement, Legacy Technology Lab
The Impact
By implementing DroneBundle, Legacy has been able to build a scalable operational framework capable of supporting large-scale drone inspection programs across institutional commercial real estate portfolios.
Improved organization of inspection projects across thousands of assets
Better visibility into mission status and field activity
Streamlined coordination between pilots, operations teams, and analysts
More consistent documentation across inspection workflows
Stronger historical records for repeat inspections and asset tracking
A scalable operational system supporting continued portfolio growth
These improvements allow Legacy to focus on delivering what its clients value most: clear, defensible insight into the condition of their infrastructure.
Supporting the Future of Infrastructure Intelligence
Legacy Technology Lab continues to expand its work across the commercial real estate ecosystem, including collaborations with MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the MIT Real Estate Transformation Lab, where research is exploring how advanced sensing and analytics can improve building infrastructure intelligence.
With an experienced board and advisory group that includes leaders who have disrupted industries ranging from quantum computing to digital marketplaces for waste and recycling, Legacy is building a new model for how commercial properties are inspected and maintained.
Platforms like DroneBundle play a critical role in enabling that transformation by giving organizations the operational infrastructure needed to manage drone programs at scale.