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About Gearbox
Gearbox turns telemetry, inventory, and procurement data into a single source of truth for the hardware your network runs on — what it is worth, what it is costing you, and what happens next.
Origin
The internet runs on hardware. Every device has a lifecycle — and every lifecycle is managed in a spreadsheet.
The internet runs on hardware. Routers, switches, optics, line cards, chassis — millions of devices across thousands of sites. Every one of them will fail, reach end-of-life, or need to be replaced as traffic grows.
Today, the largest network operators manage this with spreadsheets, email threads, and tribal knowledge. A single refresh cycle can involve dozens of suppliers, six-figure quotes, and months of lead time — with no system tracking what is actually deployed, what is about to fail, and what is no longer supported.
The problem is not a lack of data. It is a lack of a system that connects the data. Telemetry lives in Netcool. Inventory lives in ServiceNow. Pricing lives in Cisco Commerce and Juniper Partner Portal. Procurement lives in SAP Ariba. These systems do not talk to each other.
Gearbox is the layer that connects them. We ingest telemetry, build a live digital twin, predict failures before they happen, optimize spares across warehouses, and automate procurement from RFQ to PO. One platform. One source of truth.
By the numbers
Why network hardware capex is one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise IT — every figure sourced in-page.
Average hourly cost of unplanned downtime for 90%+ of mid-size and large enterprises
Of enterprises report $1M–$5M in losses per hour of downtime
Of maintenance-contract spend covers hardware that is dead, gone, or past end-of-life
Per asset per month — lifecycle intelligence versus $85–210 for enterprise EAM
Sources: ITIC 2024 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report · Redress 2026 maintenance-contract analysis · vendor pricing research — full citations in the research index.
Straight talk
There is no marketing department here. No sales floor, no SDRs. What exists is the product, the data behind every claim on this site, and a shipping cadence you can audit. The machine did the work — and the receipts are on this page.
The team
A small, product-led team. We build the product ourselves, ship continuously, and hold every claim we publish to the same standard our customers' networks demand.
Engineering-led
Architecture, models, and UI live in one team. No outsourced modules, no services theater — the product is the pitch.
Evidence over hype
Every figure on this site is sourced and verifiable — from the ITIC and Redress data we cite to the SOC 2 Type II audit now in progress.
Mission-driven
We exist to make hardware capex visible. Products that pay for themselves in avoided downtime, wasted maintenance spend, and premature refresh.
How this page is built
The design system this site runs on is itself the product of the same discipline: no stock assets, no borrowed imagery — everything composed from type, tokens, and motion. The receipt: