Technology & Engineering

How a leading personal computing company turned monthly waste into millions and why most data centers still pay to destroy what they could recover    In 2017, a major OEM was paying $350,000 a month to destroy used storage devices. Most worked perfectly, but because they had once held customer data, they were marked for […]

Why analytics-obsessed companies go blind on recovery   One of the world’s largest online marketplace had what looked like a simple problem.  Every month, hundreds of thousands of returned electronics flowed back to their warehouses. Headphones, gaming systems, security cameras, laptops… millions of dollars worth of products that customers couldn’t get to work properly.  The […]

Why the future of recovery means less human intervention, not more Aivar Elbrecht is engineering our company toward a future where human intervention becomes minimal, and he’s completely fine with that. “No matter what I was doing and where I was working, I’d be committed to this vision… of creating a better, more sustainable future.” […]

Inside the quiet failure loop costing us billions in repairable tech Last year one global electronics repair line wrote off more than tens million dollars in parts. Business as usual, unfortunately, in the world of global oems. We decided to follow the money.  Most of it fell through one gap: machines that still grade hardware […]

How to generate real value from every return   It takes a laptop four weeks to reach the repair center. Another three to get processed. After that long journey, a lifetime in the fast moving world of technology, it finally lands on a technician’s desk. And wouldn’t you know it, it powers on without a […]

An Engineered Revolution in Device Lifecycle Extension It’s 2025 and while most technology innovations race forward at break-neck speed, the ways we extend hardware use-cycles haven’t quite kept up. Most “in-use” approaches for grading, testing and workflow analysis remain slow, fragile and overly subjective—even with advanced tools in place. The problem is bigger than any […]