Timeline and deadlinesWhat triggers what, and in what order

Starting assumption: month 1 = September 2026

One thing governs everything else: the special operating authorisation. Whatever can move ahead without it is placed first; whatever costs money waits behind the lawyer’s answer.

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AThe critical path, on one page

Week 1

Lawyer meeting · nothing is committed before it

Month 3

First revenue · pressure washing

Months 7 to 15

Authorisation window · central case at month 7

Month 16

Second crew, on triggers

Four deadlines drive the project, and a fifth one cannot be driven at all: the authorisation. It is therefore set out here as three costed scenarios rather than a firm milestone.

Deadline	What must be done	What it unlocks	If it slips
W1–W3	The three meetings: lawyer, accountant, bank	The decision to incorporate, and the legal form it takes	Everything slips by the same amount
Month 1	Company incorporated, panel van and aircraft ordered, hiring of the field crew started	Delivery and import lead times finally start running	Month 3 becomes unreachable
Month 3	Authorisation file submitted, pressure washing in production, campaign launched	Revenue starts and the review begins	The cash position carries four months of costs on its own
Month 7 central	Special operating authorisation granted — the one date we do not control	The first billable drone job	Cash trough +23 932 ₪ at month 9
Month 9 short delay	Two more months of review	Two extra months of pressure washing	Cash trough +4 199 ₪ · facility undrawn
Month 12 long delay	Five more months of review	The building-committee order book waits, pressure washing carries the company alone	Cash trough −26 601 ₪ · facility drawn
Month 15 worst case	Eight more months of review	The model survives, it stops growing	Cash trough −58 677 ₪ · second crew pushed back a year
Months 14–16	Second-crew triggers met two months running	The doubling of revenue	Nothing: we stay with one crew

The rule that holds the whole timeline together. Nothing expensive is committed before the lawyer’s answer on the flight waiver. What is committed before that: the three meetings, the prior-rights search on the trade mark, the domain registration, and the preparatory work that costs nothing but time.

BBefore any commitment — the first three weeks

This phase costs almost nothing and decides everything. It is not in the financial forecast: it comes before it.

Week 125–31 August

Lawyer meeting

The 77 questions from the dedicated page, in order. Expected output: a written note on the flight waiver, confirmation of the 25 kg threshold including payload, an estimate of time and cost, and the name of a regulatory consultant.

Lawyer · critical
Week 1in parallel

Prior-rights search on the trade mark, and domain registration

Israeli trade mark register, availability of osmoz.co.il, business listing and social accounts. Nothing goes into production — no vehicle wrap, no embroidery — before the filing.

Lawyer · trade mark
Week 2

Accountant meeting

Legal form, share capital or shareholder loan for the 600 000 ₪, tax treatment of a vehicle above 3.5 tonnes, and the trade-off between founders’ equity contribution and borrowing. Her written answer becomes the request we take to the bank.

Accountant
Week 3

Bank meeting

Opening the business account, rate on a pledged balloon loan, position on financing the drones, a 100 000 ₪ overdraft facility. We arrive with two written opinions in hand.

Bank
End of W3

Commitment decision

Three possible answers. The business can be operated: we start month 1. It can be operated subject to conditions: we cost the conditions and decide. It cannot be operated: ground-level pressure washing stands alone, with no drone — the project then changes nature and loses its barrier to entry.

Both partners

CThe first twelve months

Month 1 is set at September 2026 to fix ideas. The calendar dates follow from that.

Month 1September 2026

Incorporation and orders

Company incorporated, tax files opened, VAT registration. Panel van and both aircraft ordered. Spectrum authorisation 1301 filed at the same time as the order, never after. Hiring of the two-person field crew started. Website and CRM built in-house. Survey vehicle bought outright.

45 000 ₪ + 91 000 ₪ committed
Month 2October 2026

The heaviest month in the plan

Van delivered and fitted out with racking, aircraft registered, 290 000 ₪ paid out. The crew starts mid-month. This is where the balloon loan must be in place: without it, the founders’ equity contribution no longer covers the plan.

Cash position · 185 700 ₪
Month 3November 2026

Authorisation file submitted · first revenue

Risk management plan written with the consultant, authorisation application filed. Ground-level pressure washing goes into production: seventeen days at 4 000 ₪, that is 68 000 ₪ over the month. Website and campaign launched at day 90. 44 085 ₪ of input VAT credit recovered on the van.

The review clock starts
Month 4December 2026

Technical sales rep and first leads

He joins when the first qualified building-committee leads come in. Vehicle wrap on both vehicles — after the trade mark filing, not before. The conditional order book is built up.

Sales
Months 5–6Jan–Feb 2027

File under review · insurance taken out

Exchanges with the authority, further documents requested. Aviation third-party liability and machinery breakdown cover taken out. Framework agreements signed with property management companies, conditional on the authorisation being granted. Pressure washing holds up the cash position.

Watch point
Month 7March 2027

Authorisation granted · first drone job

Trial jobs, then the first billable job on an order book already built. Ramp-up over three months: three jobs, then five, then seven. Pressure washing recedes as the drone fills the working days.

The one date we do not control
Month 8April 2027

Inside sales rep

Hired when there are inbound enquiries to handle, not before. Hebrew-French bilingual, a non-negotiable criterion. Fixed costs reach their cruising level, 69 707 ₪ per month.

Full structure
Month 9May 2027

Cash trough — 23 932 ₪

Ten days of costs. This is the point where the overdraft facility must exist, even undrawn. Revenue for the month already reaches 85 164 ₪, but 60% is collected at sixty days.

Weekly monitoring
Months 10–12Jun–Aug 2027

One crew at full capacity

Nine jobs a month, 90 654 ₪, margin of 10 069 ₪. First framework contracts signed with property management companies — recurring work does not come from residential customers. Real output measured, stopwatch in hand — that figure decides the rest of the model.

Model check

DMonths 13 to 24

Months 13–14Sep–Oct 2027

Trigger check · third aircraft

Three conditions met at the same time over two consecutive months: at least fourteen of the seventeen days booked, order book more than five weeks out, cash position above 200 000 ₪ with the facility undrawn. If they are met, the third aircraft is ordered — whichever model has proved itself.

A decision, not a deadline
Month 16December 2027

Second crew operational

Two more people, 28 800 ₪ of additional monthly costs. Revenue can double; so can the winter cash dip. The overdraft facility covers it and is repaid within two months.

Growth
Month 18February 2028

Bilingual office administrator · review point

Hired with the second crew, once flight coordinations exceed fifteen a month. Review point: does the trajectory justify opening the high-rise offer? Yes or no — both are acceptable, indecision is not.

Investment decision
31 May 2028external date

End of the customs duty exemption

The exemption on code 8806.23 is published as running until 31 May 2028. Any aircraft imported after that date may cost more. To check with the lawyer: is the exemption fixed at the order date or at customs clearance?

Imposed deadline
Months 20–24Apr–Aug 2028

High-rise offer

Aircraft above 25 kg, air operator status, certificate of airworthiness under the 1981 regulations. A long path, taken only if the first eighteen months have delivered.

Conditional

EThe deadlines that come round again

Once the company is running, these are the dates that catch out inattentive businesses.

Deadline	Frequency	Detail
Flight coordination	Per job	Filed ten days ahead with מודיעין טיס (flight information unit), seven working days minimum. A lead time that cannot be compressed, and sold to the client as such.
VAT return	Monthly or bi-monthly	The accountant to confirm the frequency in the first month.
Corporate income tax instalments	Monthly	Based on declared revenue. To be set with the accountant.
Payroll and employer on-costs	Monthly	Four employees in year 1, six from month 16.
Balloon loan instalment	Monthly	6 866 ₪ for forty-eight months, then a balloon payment of 120 700 ₪ to deal with — refinancing, buy-out or return of the vehicle.
Insurance renewal	Annual	Aviation third-party liability, machinery breakdown, fleet. To be renegotiated as volume grows.
Vehicle technical test	Annual	126.19 ₪ for a vehicle under 8 tonnes, official rate at 01.06.2026.
Flight and maintenance log	Ongoing	Required by the authority. A log that is not kept costs the authorisation — not a fine.
Growth trigger review	Monthly	Utilisation rate, order book lead time, available cash, conversion rate.

FIf it slips

Delay	Quantified effect	What we do
Authorisation at month 9	Cash trough +4 199 ₪	Nothing special: two more months of pressure washing, and the cash position holds without drawing on the facility.
Authorisation at month 12	Cash trough −26 601 ₪	Overdraft facility drawn, repaid over three months. Technical sales rep postponed if necessary.
Authorisation at month 15	Cash trough −58 677 ₪	Facility fully used, marketing cut back, second crew pushed back a year. The model survives, it stops growing.
Real output at 600 m²/day	−11 916 ₪/month	The model is not viable as it stands: raise prices, lighten the structure, or shift the weight of revenue towards pressure washing. The decision is taken on the first three jobs, not after a year.
Equipment held up at import	Everything shifts	This is why spectrum authorisation 1301 is filed at the same time as the order. An aircraft stuck at the port ties up 135 000 ₪ without earning a shekel.
Authorisation refused	The drone work falls away	Three activities stay open without a waiver: ground-level pressure washing, solar panels on open roofs, isolated industrial sites. They cover part of the costs — not the whole plan.

What can never be made up. A month lost at the start is paid for twice: once in cash, once in season. A file submitted in November is reviewed over the winter, when pressure washing runs at full capacity and carries the company. A file submitted in March starts the drone in the middle of the slow season, with four months of costs and no work.