SkyPSI cleaning drones entered the market on August 25, 2026, when the newly launched Dallas-Fort Worth technology company announced a plan to turn cleaning crews into company owners. Founder Vic Pellicano is backing the launch with $5 million of his own money. While some observers argue that AI and robotics will wipe out working-class jobs, SkyPSI is built on the opposite bet: that the same machines are about to create a generation of blue-collar business owners.
Drones that wash buildings are not a new idea. They have been doing that work for about a decade. What SkyPSI says has never been built is the infrastructure that puts those machines in working people’s hands: the training, the certification, and above all, the paying contracts. Closing that gap is the entire purpose of the company, which launches with commercial cleaning contracts it has already sold.
How SkyPSI Cleaning Drones Put Operators in Business
The model is straightforward. SkyPSI places a professional cleaning drone with an independent operator, trains that person, certifies them, and books them onto commercial contracts the company has already secured. The operator runs their own business, with their own truck, their own crew, and their own name on the door. Workers who want in can apply through the operator program the company runs, and the drone takes on the part of the job that once put human bodies at risk.
Pellicano framed the launch as a shift in a bargain that has defined manual labor for generations.
“For working-class people the tradeoff was always the same: you traded your body for a paycheck. Not anymore. The robot takes the risk. You take the contract. And this time your name is on the company.” Vic Pellicano, Founder of SkyPSI
Safety sits at the center of the pitch. People still die doing this work, and falls remain among the deadliest hazards American workers face. SkyPSI argues that robots should have fixed that problem already, and its answer is to train and certify every operator it equips, building careers around the machines instead of replacing the people who run them. Every job is flown from the ground with an FAA-certified pilot on the controls.
A Founder Betting His Own Money on Working People
Pellicano’s backstory explains why he is funding the launch himself. The son of a truck driver, he was raised in a trailer park outside Chicago and was one of the first kids in his neighborhood with a computer. He lost both of his parents, ended up homeless, and lived out of his car. He rebuilt his life from an entry-level job, put his computer science and math degrees to work, and built Verenia, a company acquired by Oracle in 2022. He then founded the AI drone company Avianna and sold it in 2024. Technology carried him from sleeping in a car to a two-time multimillionaire founder, and SkyPSI exists to hand that same lever to the next generation.
“Some think the robot economy belongs to people with the right badge and the right zip code. I think it belongs to the guy who shows up at 5 a.m. with calluses on his hands. Tech turned a homeless kid from a trailer park into a multimillionaire. I’m putting $5 million of my own money into making sure working people get the same shot. Machines should take the strain. People should take the profit.” Vic Pellicano, Founder of SkyPSI
The market SkyPSI is chasing is enormous. Commercial cleaning is heading toward $860 billion by 2034, and robots touch barely 1 percent of it today, which the company describes as one of the biggest automation gaps in the world economy. SkyPSI also argues that robots grow this industry rather than shrink it. Buildings that were washed once a year because rope work was dangerous and expensive can instead be cleaned four times a year by SkyPSI cleaning drones, flown from the ground.
SkyPSI is starting in Dallas-Fort Worth and plans to expand through the Texas Triangle before reaching other American cities with glass in the sky. The company serves commercial properties only, including hotels, senior living communities, office buildings, multifamily and HOA communities, medical facilities, parking structures, and retail and mixed-use developments, across Dallas-Fort Worth and within 200 miles of Dallas. Property teams can book an assessment at skypsi.com or by calling (888) 508-7940.
