About
Veteran-owned. Dallas–Fort Worth.
Project Kinetic LLC, operating as Kinetic Systems. We run reality capture programs for construction and oil & gas across North Texas.
The military inheritance here isn't a look. It's checklists, a fixed publish day, and the habit of writing down what happened whether or not anyone asked for it.
Cleared through your gate
The paperwork, before the first visit.
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FAA Part 107 certificated
Remote pilot certification current, aircraft registered, Remote ID compliant. Airspace authorisation coordinated in advance where it's required — which around DFW is often.
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Insured, including aviation
Including the aircraft coverage most general liability policies exclude. Certificates on request, and we're through prequalification before the first site visit.
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OSHA 30 trained
Site orientation done, badges cleared, briefed on your safety program before we're on your dirt.
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Honest about scope
We say what we self-perform and what a partner delivers. You will never find out the difference from an invoice.
Small, local, and reachable by phone. The person who scopes your job is the person who shows up to it.
What we're here to do
Mission
To raise the construction standard through service, precision, and emerging technology.
Vision
To spark a movement that transforms construction through people, purpose, and God-given vision.
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Passion
We care about the outcome.
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Innovation
We continuously search for better ways to build and work.
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Connection
We connect people, information, design, and field reality.
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Design Excellence
We believe complex information should be clear, useful, and beautifully presented.
Why us
Most firms who want this already run it themselves.
That's the honest starting point, and it's why we don't open with a pitch about outsourcing. Roughly seven in ten firms with a capture program self-perform it. About fourteen in a hundred hand it over entirely.
So there are two real conversations here, and they are not the same one.
69%
of firms self-perform reality capture
Vendor-published. Directional, not neutral benchmarking.
14%
fully outsource it
Vendor-published.
DroneDeploy, State of Reality Capture 2024 — 1,447 respondents across 119 countries. Vendor-published: directional, not neutral benchmarking.
The hardware is the cheap part.
A capable aircraft, a base station, the software seat and the storage clears sixteen thousand dollars before anyone has been trained on any of it.
- Aircraft, sensors and a field kit
- Processing software, per seat, per year
- A trained operator, and the six months before they're reliable
- Terabytes of storage, and somewhere to put them
- Certifications that expire on their own schedule
- Aviation coverage most general liability policies exclude
And when the one person who learned it takes another job, the capability leaves with them.
Then you already know where it breaks.
It breaks when your technician is committed to another job, when the schedule moves and the capture doesn't, and when a scope needs an instrument you didn't buy.
- Overflow capacity when your own technician is committed
- Coverage for the weeks your cadence would otherwise slip
- Point cloud capture of existing buildings, through managed partners
- Interior 360 at volumes that aren't worth your own time
- A second pair of hands for milestone dates that can't move
Not a replacement for your program. The reason it doesn't miss a week.
The way to think about it.
Outsourcing this buys you an outcome.
Building it buys you an obligation.
Currency, competence, coverage and continuity — four things that have to stay true every week for years, on top of building the building. Some firms should own that. Plenty shouldn't. And a few already do, and just need the weeks covered.
Scope, in writing
Five things we won't do.
And we'll tell you before you ask. We're new, and a row of client logos would be the easy way to answer that — we don't have one. This is the harder answer.
The same limits, in the terms →- 01
Boundary or control survey
There is no licensed surveyor in responsible charge here. We document conditions and produce visual records. We do not set boundaries, establish control, or produce any deliverable that requires a surveyor's seal. When your project needs one, we bring in a licensed firm and it is named on the invoice.
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Quantity certification
Stockpile and earthwork volumes derived from imagery are photogrammetric estimates for planning and internal tracking. Useful for knowing whether the pad is half done. Not a pay application, and we will say so in writing every time.
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QA/QC sign-off
Design-versus-installed comparison shows you where the difference is and when it appeared. Whether that is acceptable work is your call and your inspector's. We're the record, not the referee.
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Safety compliance
Our crews follow your site's safety program — badged, oriented, OSHA 30 trained. What we are not is your safety consultant. If a capture happens to show a hazard we will tell you, but nobody should be reading our imagery instead of walking the site.
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Means, methods or schedule
We document what happened and when. How the work gets sequenced, staffed and built is the contractor's domain, and a documentation vendor with opinions about your means and methods is a vendor causing problems.
Easiest way to judge this is to make us do it once.
Send a schedule or a site address. You get back which phases, which instruments, which windows, and what each visit produces. Free, and yours to keep.