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About FaultGuard

Built for the teams
the big platforms ignore.

FaultGuard exists to give small maintenance teams a structured system for managing equipment, PM, and work orders — without the cost and complexity of enterprise software.

Our Story

The gap between spreadsheets
and enterprise CMMS is real.

Small maintenance teams — a 5-person crew at a water utility, a 10-person contractor running equipment across multiple sites — have always fallen into a gap. Spreadsheets and shared drives aren't enough structure. Enterprise CMMS platforms are designed for organizations with IT teams, implementation budgets, and months to spare.

FaultGuard was built to fill that gap. The goal is straightforward: give small teams a place to register their assets, set up PM schedules, track work orders, attach documentation, and build a maintenance history that survives turnover and retirements.

The system also includes AI-assisted documentation Q&A — technicians can ask plain-language questions about equipment and get cited answers from the manuals you've uploaded. This is a supporting feature, not the headline.

The headline is simpler: a maintenance system that a small team can actually use, that doesn't require an implementation consultant.

FaultGuard showing work order open work queue and week-ahead PM schedule
What We Believe

Our principles

Built for the Field
Not the boardroom. Every decision we make starts with: does this help a technician at a pump station or job site? If not, we don't build it.
Simple Enough to Actually Use
A maintenance system that requires a week of training or a consultant to set up is a system that won't get used. We optimize for adoption, not feature count.
AI That Assists, Not Replaces
FaultGuard doesn't replace technicians. The documentation Q&A gives them faster access to the information they need. The human always makes the final call.
Affordable by Design
Enterprise CMMS platforms price out small and mid-size teams. FaultGuard is built to be accessible to the organizations that need it most.
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Help us build the future of field maintenance

We're looking for early partners who want to shape the next generation of maintenance management for small teams. Your use cases and feedback drive our roadmap.

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