Building Drones Around the Application

The Product Had to Fit the Application

The idea for Aerocarrier grew from years of wanting to build a startup, experimenting with different ideas and learning from what did not work. To understand the drone industry from the inside, Ashish Yadav worked at a drone startup and studied the market, product-development process and operating challenges closely.

During that period, he saw a recurring product-level gap: many drone platforms depended heavily on generic imported frames and component ecosystems, while the aircraft itself was not always engineered around the exact application it had to perform. After meeting Kunal Dhiman, the two began exploring the idea of building an application-focused drone manufacturing and solutions company — Aerocarrier Innovation.

Their first deep study was agriculture spraying. By speaking directly with farmers and spraying pilots, they repeatedly encountered problems such as bulky 10-litre platforms, limited flight endurance, higher local transportation and operating effort, ownership cost and after-sales support concerns. Farmers were interested in drone technology, but many were hesitant about what happened after purchase.