SkyGrain aerial to spatial model scale transition - outdoor terrain capture

SkyGrain / Spatial Computing Services

SkyGrain.
Spatial truth for
course experience.

Interactive 3D course models with sponsor branding and embeddable viewer. For PDGA tournament directors and the sponsors who fund them.

Joe Morrow • Central Illinois • DJI Mini 3 + Insta360 X5

The Opportunity

Jomez does broadcast video. UDisc has flat 2D course maps. Nobody does interactive 3D.

The Ledgestone Open in East Peoria runs every July as an elite PDGA Disc Golf Pro Tour event with national sponsors. It is not a local tournament - it is a legitimate professional event with broadcast coverage, major brand sponsors, and a national audience that follows the Pro Tour. That event is 25 minutes from where SkyGrain is being built. That proximity is not nothing.

The current vendor landscape for course documentation is specific and has a clear gap. Jomez Productions and GK Pro produce broadcast-quality video coverage of major tournaments - that market is owned. UDisc provides flat 2D course maps for navigation and scorekeeping - that market is also owned. What does not exist is an interactive embeddable photogrammetric 3D course experience with sponsor branding baked in. Tournament directors do not have a vendor for that product because the product does not exist yet at a price point a tournament can justify.

The business model for this segment is B2B2C: the tournament director is the direct buyer, but sponsors fund the purchase as part of their event sponsorship package. A course experience widget that lives on the event page, carries the sponsor logo, and gives fans an interactive course walkthrough before the event is exactly the kind of digital deliverable a sponsor will pay for separately from their banner placement and title credit.

The Product

One capture session. A course experience that lives on the event page.

Isometric cutaway spatial model - the same visualization idiom applied to course terrain and sponsor overlays

The SkyGrain spatial model visualization idiom: isometric cutaway, tactical overlay, 360 navigable spheres. The same architecture that works for a hunting property's stand positions applies to a disc golf course's hole layouts, OB markers, sponsor placements, and viewing-area callouts. One product, different vocabulary per vertical.

Drone Photogrammetry Course Capture

DJI Mini 3 double-grid mission over the full course. Georeferenced 3D terrain mesh: hole layouts, elevation changes, OB lines, basket and tee pad positions. GSD ~1.1 cm/pixel. Processed via Polycam or WebODM. One flight, full course data.

Sponsor-Branded Overlay Layer

Icon and branding layer anchored to the 3D model. Sponsor logos pinned to course features. Hole sponsor callouts, title sponsor banner zones, branded viewing area markers. The overlay is the sponsor's deliverable - not just a banner placement, but an interactive course presence.

360 Ground-Level Course Walk

Insta360 X5 at 8K/72MP from tee pads and key fairway positions. Navigable spheres pinned to the 3D model - fans can fly the course layout and then drop to ground level on any hole. Works on desktop or mobile before or during the event.

Embeddable Event Page Widget

Hosted viewer link that embeds directly into the event's existing website. No app install for fans. Tournament director gets one embed code. Sponsor gets branded presence in the widget header and overlay. Works on iPad, desktop, mobile.

The Process

Course to delivered sponsor experience in three steps.

Step 1

Course Capture

Part 107 licensed pilot flies the full course. Insta360 X5 ground walk covers tee pads, key fairways, and basket positions. One site visit, pre-event. Works around regular course play - no course closure needed.

▲Mesh

⸻Ortho

✦Points

◦360

☰Brand

✔QA

Step 2

Process + Brand

Polycam cloud processing produces the 3D terrain mesh. Sponsor branding and overlay layer applied. Hole metadata (par, distance, OB markers) keyed to real coordinates from course scorecard. Embeddable viewer configured with event colors and sponsor header.

Step 3

Deliver

Tournament director gets an embed code. Sponsor gets branded presence in the widget. Fans get an interactive course experience on the event page before the first round tees off. Post-event: archive version stays live for the season.

The Proof at Scale

What this looks like for Ledgestone Open or a comparable PDGA Pro Tour event.

Aerial drone view of a disc golf hole at golden hour with sponsor-branded tactical overlay - tee pad, fairway corridor, and basket visible

Frame 9: Hole 7 par 4 387 ft. Sponsor-branded fairway view, ready for embeddable widget. Tee pad marker, basket, sponsor banner overlay, and suggested flight line rendered over a real aerial drone vantage at golden hour.

Ledgestone Open. East Peoria. Every July. 25 minutes from here.

The Ledgestone Open is an elite PDGA Disc Golf Pro Tour event - not a regional tournament, a national-tier event with national sponsors and broadcast coverage. It is the most prominent disc golf event in central Illinois by a significant margin, and it runs close enough to home that SkyGrain can offer a local crew, a fast turnaround, and a lower cost structure than a vendor traveling in for the weekend.

The pitch to a Ledgestone event director is not complicated: Jomez already covers your broadcast. UDisc already covers your scorekeeping. What does not exist is an interactive 3D course experience that your title sponsor can put on their own website as a branded deliverable - not just a logo on a banner, but an actual interactive course widget. That sponsor conversation is SkyGrain's entry point into the event side of this segment.

At $1K to $5K per event-season package, the price point fits within a sponsorship activation budget rather than requiring a separate tournament budget line item. The tournament director becomes the channel to the sponsor - not the end buyer themselves.

Pricing Posture

Sponsor-funded through the tournament organizer. Priced to fit an activation budget.

$1,000 – $5,000

per event-season package, sponsor-funded through tournament organizer

The pricing model is designed to fit inside a sponsor's event activation budget, not the tournament director's operating budget. A title sponsor paying $10K to $25K for event-level naming rights has room for a $2,000 to $3,000 interactive course experience add-on - it is a better deliverable for their brand than an extra banner. The tournament director's incentive is to offer sponsors more compelling packages. SkyGrain's incentive is to build enough event-level relationships to anchor the disc golf segment with recurring annual engagements as events repeat each year.

Base Event Package

$1,000 - $1,500 for course capture + hosted viewer, no sponsor layer

Sponsor-Branded Package

$2,500 - $5,000 with sponsor overlay, branded embed, and archive season

Competition at this tier

Nobody. UDisc is flat 2D. Jomez is broadcast video. No interactive 3D vendor exists at this tier.

Recurring path

Annual event re-capture as courses and sponsor packages renew each season

What We're Asking

If you know a Ledgestone TD or a PDGA Pro Tour sponsor contact, that is the conversation.

SkyGrain does not have a disc golf segment customer yet. This is the segment where a single introduction is worth more than any marketing spend. The Ledgestone Open is the local anchor event - if you know the tournament director there, or if you work in event sponsorship for a brand that activates at PDGA Pro Tour events, that connection is the entire ask.

The pitch to the TD is simple: let me capture Ledgestone for free in year 1 in exchange for putting the sponsor-branded viewer on your event page and letting me use it as a portfolio case. I am not asking for payment on the first event. I am asking for the access and the live event URL. If the viewer drives engagement and the sponsor finds value in the branded deliverable, year 2 is a paid engagement. If it does not land, you spent nothing.

That is a no-risk conversation for a tournament director. If you can get me in that room, I will take it from there.

Where This Goes

The embeddable sponsor widget becomes a standalone product line for any outdoor event with a digital presence.

iPad showing property data interface - same embeddable widget architecture reframed for sponsor page integration

One embed code. Sponsor's website. Interactive course on their landing page.

The embeddable viewer widget is the forward-looking product for this segment. The same hosted viewer architecture that delivers a hunting-property listing or a real estate spatial model can be skinned with event branding and embedded directly in a sponsor's website - not just the event page. A title sponsor for Ledgestone can feature an interactive course walkthrough on their brand's own site during the week of the event. That is a different kind of sponsor deliverable than a logo placement, and it is what opens the door to repeat annual business from the sponsor side rather than just the TD side.

Longer term, the same product applies to any outdoor event with spatial terrain: ultramarathon course previews, adventure race course experiences, golf course previews for club members, park visitor orientation. The disc golf entry point is the proof case. The product category is broader.

SkyGrain.Spatial truth forcourse experience.