Built inside one of these plants. Not demoed to one.

This environment eats software.

Most CMMS demos happen in a conference room. Your plant is dust that gets into everything, vibration that loosens what the dust missed, heat on the kiln deck, and gloves between the tech and the screen. A crusher deck at 2am is a hostile place for software that was designed for a tablet on a desk.

So Gage assumes the worst case by default: big targets, short flows, nothing that needs two careful thumbs. A tech closes a work order at the machine or flags it blocked in one tap — missing parts, scaffold access, lockout conflict — and the supervisor knows before walking the floor. If it doesn't survive a night shift, it doesn't ship.

24/7 means the handoff is the failure point.

A day-shift plant loses context overnight. A 24/7 mill loses it three times a day. The grinding noise an operator heard on nights becomes a verbal handoff, becomes a rumor, becomes a seized bearing on a mill you can't spare. In Gage, the operator files the work request in seconds from the floor, it lands in the supervisor's queue with a timestamp, and the record exists no matter who was standing there when the shift changed. Nothing rides on memory at 6am.

PMs that answer to a permit.

If you hold a Title V permit, some of your PMs aren't maintenance — they're law. The baghouse differential-pressure check is not in the same category as a filter change, and your CMMS should know the difference. Gage tags PMs to the program they answer to — Title V, OSHA, or any program you define, whatever's on the spine of your compliance binder. When the auditor asks, the regulatory subset with completion history is one filter, not a week of spreadsheet archaeology. And at cutover, compliance-tagged PMs move last and get verified one by one, so a permit obligation never falls in a gap between systems.

Rotating equipment tells you first — if someone writes it down.

Crushers, blowers, fans, pumps — rotating equipment gets loud and hot on its way to failing, and usually announces it to whoever happens to be walking past. In most plants that walk-by becomes a verbal note that dies at shift change. In Gage it becomes a logged observation or a work request in seconds — timestamp, equipment ID, and what the operator heard, straight into the supervisor's queue. Because every report lands on the asset's history, repeat offenders get grouped as chronic issues instead of treated as ten separate surprises.

The honest scope.

Gage fits a single facility with a crew of roughly 5–25 techs — the mineral-processing plant, the cement or lime operation, the aggregates site running on spreadsheets and one overworked planner. It's one flat price per site, published, with unlimited operators submitting requests — because at a mill, the operators are your best sensors. If you're a multi-pit enterprise with an IT department and a procurement gate, we're probably not your vendor yet, and we'd rather say that here than waste your demo slot.