# Building Out A Drone-as-a-Service Model Through Acquisition

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Podcast: [Uncrewed Views](https://stenobird.com/podcast/uncrewed-views-6723185)
Published: 2026-03-11T05:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this week's episode of Uncrewed Views, Matt Collins speaks with Linda Montgomery, Vice President of Corporate Development, and Phil Franklin, Vice President of Business Development at ZenaTech, about the company's aggressive push into the drone-as-a-service market. The three discuss ZenaTech's rapid acquisition strategy across sectors like land surveying, power washing, and infrastructure inspection, the cultural challenges of integrating more than 20 companies in roughly a year, and how the evolving regulatory landscape is shaping the company's domestic manufacturing ambitions.

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