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Network hardware capex
Gearbox turns a static asset register into a prediction engine — failures flagged 30–90 days ahead, spares right-sized to demand, and a CFO-ready ROI report for every refresh.
$300K+/hr — average unplanned-downtime cost · ITIC 2024
17×
ROI
21 d
payback
$60K
per year
1,000 assets · $5/asset/mo · conservative model — Redress 2026 · ITIC 2024 · Uptime Institute 2026 · sample data
The cost of doing nothing
Average — not median — per ITIC 2024. For 41% of enterprises the same hour runs $1M–$5M. The machine's job is to make sure you never pay it.
Source: ITIC 2024 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report
The offices
Outcome first — no algorithm names, no jargon. A 1,000-asset mid-market tenant walks out with one report, four levers, and a number finance can defend.
SmartNet waste recovery
$562K
Spares optimization
$10K
Downtime avoidance
$240K
Refresh timing
$225K
Total annual savings
$1.04M
Subscription
$60K/yr
ROI
17×
Payback
21 days
Conservative model — sources: Redress 2026 maintenance-contract analysis · ITIC 2024 · Uptime Institute 2026 · predictive-analytics benchmark. Sample tenant data — your numbers come from your register, computed by the same model.
30–90 d
Remaining useful life per asset, on a live dashboard — replacements planned before the outage, not after.
30%
Pools right-sized to actual failure rates instead of insurance-bought.Predictive-analytics benchmark
1 yr
One extra year on 10% of the fleet, timed to vendor end-of-life instead of surprise.Standard TCO analysis
20–30%
SmartNet-style coverage on hardware that's dead, gone, or end-of-life.Redress 2026 contract analysis
The receipt
No implementation fees. No per-customer bespoke wiring. Self-serve from day one.
$5 / asset / month — free up to 100 assets
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