The real cost
What a bad work order actually costs your city.
Budgets count trucks, crews, and fuel. They rarely count the trip to a location that was wrong, the second visit because a report was bad, or the pile that was never reported at all. Those are the costs that quietly compound as a backlog grows.
Three kinds of work order, three kinds of cost
- An ordinary work order. A real pile in the right place — the trip you intended to make.
- A bad work order. Wrong location, wrong contents, or a site already cleaned. The crew still rolls; the city still pays.
- A missed work order. A pile nobody reported. The cheapest-looking line item, and often the most expensive outcome.
Our published model puts a bad order near $200 and a missed pile anywhere from $200 to $2,000 depending on size, location, and how long it sits. Read the full build-up in our cost analysis.
Why we price per corrected order, not per hour
Most vendors bill for activity: hours flown, images captured, reports filed. That rewards volume, not outcomes. Aerbits bills for the work order itself — created, updated, or closed — and charges nothing when nothing changes.
The result is a fee tied to what your department can verify: fewer wasted trips, fewer ghost orders, more piles actually cleared.
Read the full cost analysis →What you can measure
- Location corrections and valid closures per week.
- Avoidable trips — visits to wrong locations or sites already cleaned.
- Previously unreported piles surfaced by coverage.
- Verified cleanup time, start to completion.
All of it documented with imagery, so the numbers hold up in a budget conversation.
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Tell us the area you have in mind and how your crews work today. We'll show what aerial verification would change before you commit to anything.