Most CMMS software is built for the plant with a reliability department. You have a crew, a spreadsheet, and a planner who's also the parts guy. This page is for you.
A maintenance spreadsheet at a 10-tech site is usually a good piece of engineering. Somebody built it for free, it does exactly what the plant needs, and everyone knows where it lives. It worked — until it didn't. The failure modes are always the same: the PM schedule lives in one person's head and the spreadsheet is just where they write it down. Operators report problems by text, verbal handoff, or sticky note, and half of them evaporate at shift change. A tech hits a missing part and the job just… stops, silently, until someone asks about it three weeks later.
None of that is a spreadsheet problem you fix with a better spreadsheet. It's a handoff problem. The record has to exist independent of who was standing there when the problem happened.
A team of 5–25 techs needs three things from a CMMS: work orders that move and stay visible, PMs that generate themselves and report their own compliance number, and a way for a tech to say "I'm blocked" that notifies a supervisor without a phone call. That's the whole job.
What you get sold instead: asset hierarchies six levels deep, a reporting suite that needs its own consultant, timer enforcement that your techs will game by the second week, and an implementation plan with a steering committee. The enterprise CMMS isn't bad software — it's software for a plant that has people whose whole job is feeding it. You don't. Every screen in Gage assumes the person looking at it has somewhere else to be.
The reason small teams stay on spreadsheets isn't the monthly price — it's the six-month implementation they watched kill a CMMS at their last job. Ours is 90 days, founder-led, and costs your team roughly 14–24 hours total: data load from your existing exports, one pilot crew while the old system stays warm, then a full cutover with a parallel-run week. Compliance-tagged PMs move last and get verified one by one. The whole plan is written down, with your hours per phase, at how implementation actually works — including the import templates, downloadable today.
At a small site, "contact us for pricing" means three discovery calls before you learn the number, and the number was per-seat anyway — and per-seat math creeps at every renewal as your tech count grows. Gage is one flat price per facility with a published per-tech overage, published on the pricing page. You shouldn't have to book a call to find out whether the conversation is worth having. That's not a growth hack. It's just respect.
Gage was built by a working maintenance manager, inside his own 24/7 mineral-processing plant, for a crew the same size as yours. It's been running there since 2025 — every night shift, every handoff. If it doesn't survive a night shift, it doesn't ship.
A walkthrough with your equipment and your crew structure in mind — with someone who knows the product because he built it.
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