Gecko's End-to-End Inspection Platform
Gecko Robotics
Gecko is selling a closed loop maintenance workflow, not a robot. The robot captures dense inspection data on steel assets, the Cantilever software turns that scan into thickness maps and repair priorities, and Gecko crews deliver the job on site, which lets the company sell multi year contracts instead of one off equipment deals. That bundle is what makes the model stickier and higher value than hardware only inspection vendors.
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In practice, a Gecko job looks like a field team arriving with multiple wall crawling robots, scanning boilers, tanks, ship hulls, or piping, and pushing data into Cantilever within hours. Customers are buying faster outage decisions and repair planning, not just images or sensor readings.
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The revenue model is layered. Inspection deployments are priced by how much asset surface gets covered, software subscriptions add recurring access to data storage and AI analytics, and engineering work adds repair design and compliance support. That mix turns each robot into an anchor for services and software revenue.
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Comparable vendors usually break the stack apart. ANYbotics pairs a mobile inspection robot with inspection software for autonomous rounds, while incumbents like Siemens package robotics into broader asset software. Gecko is more specialized around difficult vertical steel surfaces and uses that specialization to own more of the inspection workflow end to end.
This is heading toward a model where inspection is only the entry point. As Cantilever expands into repair planning, procurement, and asset operations, Gecko can move from finding defects to shaping how large industrial and defense operators schedule maintenance, spend capital, and run critical infrastructure over time.