Aerial intelligence for working land.

Lavarient is building an agricultural and natural resource drone platform in the Carolinas: mapping aircraft, the software that turns flights into decisions, and the dealer and service network that keeps them in the air. We are onboarding component suppliers, sensor and software partners, and dealers now.

Commercial and civil by design. Serving growers, applicators, foresters and land managers.
VTOL mapping drone lifting off beside a flue-cured tobacco field with curing barns in eastern North Carolina
Mapping launch, flue-cured tobacco, eastern North Carolina

Why now

The US market just opened up. The supply chain did not.

Dec 22, 2025

Covered List

The FCC placed all new foreign-made drones and critical components on its Covered List. Existing units keep flying. New models cannot enter the US market.
FCC action, Dec 2025

Market share

~80%

DJI’s share of ag spray drones used by US farmers in 2024. That supplier is now out of the new-unit market.
AgFunderNews, Jan 2026

Annual US demand

8k to 10k

Estimated spray drones the US market can absorb each year. Domestic production covers a fraction of that and is backlogged.
Industry estimate via AgFunderNews

Part 108 BVLOS

Late 2026

Expected final rule window. The draft limits airworthiness acceptance to US manufacturers, which favors a domestic integrator.
FAA NPRM Aug 2025; at OMB Jul 2026
Growers and applicators still need aircraft, parts, sensors, software and somebody local to service all of it. The alternatives that exist are costlier, less mature, and thinly supported in the Southeast. That is the gap Lavarient is organized to fill.
Straight-down drone orthomosaic of peanut rows, a field road and a drainage ditch in Bertie County, North Carolina
Peanut Crop, 400 FT AGL
Drone stand-count image of V4 corn rows with a grassed waterway on the North Carolina Coastal Plain
Corn stand count at V4, Coastal Plain, 200 ft AGL
Small mapping quadcopter hovering low over a soybean canopy at pod fill in September
Soybean canopy pass at pod fill, September

What we build

One platform. Four lanes.

Agricultural spray drone applying over tasseled corn with a nurse tank and generator at the turn row

Services

Field services

Part 107 mapping today. Part 137 application.  Stand counts, weed and disease pressure, drainage, timber inventory, reclamation monitoring and stockpile volumetrics.

Laptop on a pickup tailgate showing a drone field map with elevation contours and management zones

Software

Flight to decision

One workflow from flight plan to map to prescription. Grower-owned data. Exports to the farm management systems people already use.
Technician replacing a brushless motor on a mapping drone at the Lavarient service bench in Mooresville, North Carolina

Distribution

Dealer and service network

Sales, parts and repair across the Carolinas for allied-made airframes and sensors. Training, licensing support and financing.
Carbon fiber drone airframe on an assembly bench with motors, ESCs and wiring harness laid out

Integration

A Lavarient airframe

A commercial mapping aircraft assembled in Mooresville from partner-sourced components. Agricultural by design.

Partner programs

We are onboarding partners now.

We are seeking partners across our ecosystem to provide best in class agricultural drone services throughout the Carolinas and mid-Atlantic.

Mapping quadcopter over soybean rows with an RTK GNSS base station on a tripod in the North Carolina Piedmont

Component suppliers

What we need

What we offer

Multirotor drone with LiDAR flying above a loblolly pine plantation while a forester reviews data on a tablet

Sensor and software partners

What we need

What we offer

Two agricultural spray drones being refilled from a nurse tank at the edge of a peanut field

Dealers and service partners

Who we want

What we offer

Company

Built by people who have shipped hardware into hard places.

Lavarient USA, Inc. is a North Carolina corporation founded in 2017. Its leadership brings two decades of unmanned aerial system development and operations to an under-served and critical industry.

Tobacco grower and remote pilot reviewing a vegetation index map on a tablet at the end of a flue-cured tobacco row
Reading a vegetation index map at the row end

Office
500 S Main St, Suite 409
Mooresville, NC 28115

Questions partners ask

Straight answers for suppliers, technology partners and dealers.

What does Lavarient USA do?

Lavarient USA, Inc. is an agricultural and natural resource drone company in Mooresville, North Carolina. We fly Part 107 mapping work for growers, foresters and land managers, build the software that turns a flight into a map and a prescription, distribute and service allied-made aircraft and sensors through a Carolinas dealer network, and are assembling our own commercial mapping airframe from partner-sourced components.

Where is Lavarient based and where do you work?

Our office and service bench are at 500 S Main St, Suite 409, Mooresville, NC 28115. Field services and the dealer network cover North Carolina and South Carolina first. Supplier and technology partners come from anywhere in the United States and allied countries.

Is Lavarient a DJI dealer?

No. Since December 22, 2025 the FCC Covered List blocks new foreign-made drones and critical components from the US market. Lavarient distributes aircraft and sensors from US and allied manufacturers and is building a US-assembled commercial mapping airframe to fill the gap that decision created.

Who should apply to the partner programs?

Three groups. Component suppliers of motors, ESCs, batteries, flight controllers, GNSS and RTK modules, gimbals, radios, composites and application hardware. Sensor and software firms with multispectral, thermal, LiDAR, photogrammetry, agronomic analytics or farm management integrations. Dealers and service partners such as ag retailers, co-ops, crop consultants, licensed applicators, Part 137 operators and repair shops.

Do components need to be NDAA compliant?

Not for the Lavarient commercial platform, which is designed for civil agriculture and land management. Allied-country origin is preferred because of the FCC Covered List. NDAA-compliant and defense variants are handled by our affiliate Sentinel Precision, Inc.

Does Lavarient fly for growers today?

Yes, Part 107 mapping: orthomosaics, vegetation index maps, stand counts, weed and disease pressure, drainage, timber inventory, reclamation monitoring and stockpile volumetrics. Spray and application services follow once our Part 137 certificate and NCDA&CS aerial applicator license are in hand.

How do I reach Lavarient?

Use the partner form on this page. It routes to the right person and we reply within two business days. We do not publish an email address, which keeps the inbox clear of automated spam.

Become a partner

Tell us what you make, sell or fly.

Suppliers, technology partners and dealers use the same form. Pick your program and we will route it to the right person. We reply within two business days.
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