For decades, the “ground truth” of commercial real estate was a dirty, expensive, and slow business. If a bank wanted to underwrite a loan for a strip mall in Ohio, or an insurer needed to assess fire risk for a warehouse in Texas, they sent a human. They paid for travel, waited for a report, and hoped the photos weren’t taken three months before during a dry spell. It was a bottleneck in a world that demands instant data. That bottleneck is about to be smashed, maybe.