What goes in the box.
Every kind of business stops on a different device. The box holds the ones that stop yours.
/ The slot next to the laptop
The laptop in the slot is the same everywhere: engineered for your company, zero trust from first boot. What sits next to it depends on what you do. We work that out with you site by site, and it changes as your business changes.
/ The rule
Three tests decide what gets a slot.
A device has to pass all three. If it fails one, it does not get a slot, and we say so up front.
/ 01
Downtime test
Does its failure stop revenue, care, production or the work? If nothing stops, it does not need a slot.
/ 02
Config test
Can we capture what it takes to bring a replacement up identical - the same versions, the same settings, the same behavior in the same place?
/ 03
Swap test
Can it be replaced from the box on a controlled runbook, by a person in the building, without a specialist standing there?
The order we get there.
- 01Laptops first. Every person, every site.
- 02Then the network and security gear that connects them.
- 03Then clinical, industrial and field compute - the machines your kind of business stops without.
- 04Then whatever else passes the three tests, worked out with you site by site.
Specialized equipment that fails one of the three tests does not get a slot. If we cannot capture what it takes to bring a replacement up identical, or it cannot be swapped from the box on a controlled runbook, a slot would be a promise we could not keep.
/ Examples
What typically has a slot.
Dental and medical clinics
Practice management server, imaging workstation, front desk machines, the switch that connects the chairs.
Plants and warehouses
The line terminal, the label printer, the scanner dock, the edge switch and firewall.
Labs
The instrument workstation, the licensed analysis machine, the controlled-access switch.
Field crews
Rugged laptops and tablets, staged at the yard or shipped from our hub.
Offices and remote teams
Laptops, shipped from our hub the next business day.
If it stops you when it fails, it has a slot. If it doesn't, it doesn't need one. We'd rather leave a slot empty than fill it with something you'll never take out.