We built the alert system that should have existed
Fleetpio started in Denver in 2023 when a field operations veteran decided he'd watched one too many preventable cold chain failures destroy someone's livelihood.
The $60K failure that should have been a $400 bearing replacement
Daniel Osei spent six years in field service operations at a regional cold storage and distribution company in the Denver area. In July 2022, he watched a single compressor failure wipe out a client's $60,000 fresh produce shipment over a Fourth of July weekend. The unit was a walk-in condenser at a produce staging facility — warm ambient temps during the holiday weekend turned a degraded compressor into a total loss event.
The painful part: the vibration data was there. The unit's sensors had been logging elevated frequency readings for 22 days before failure. But no one was reading the data — the maintenance schedule said the next visit was three weeks out, and the previous tech had marked the unit clean on a calendar check two weeks prior. Bearing wear doesn't show up on a clipboard checklist.
Daniel left to build the monitoring layer that would have caught it. He recruited Priya Nair — an industrial IoT engineer he'd met at a field service conference in 2021 — and Carlos Fuentes, a former commercial refrigeration technician who had moved into product management. They incorporated Fleetpio in January 2023 and spent the first year building the sensor ingestion and anomaly detection engine before taking on their first customers.
We're building the condition-based maintenance layer for commercial refrigeration fleets — the sensor monitoring, compressor health scoring, and work order automation that field operations teams need but that enterprise-priced competitors (Augury, Aspentech) have kept out of reach for small and mid-size food logistics operators. Fleetpio is not a repurposed HVAC platform or a generic CMMS with a refrigeration module. It's built specifically for the compressor health monitoring and cold chain compliance requirements of food distribution.
Three people. All field operations, no fluff.
Daniel spent six years in field service operations at a regional cold storage company before starting Fleetpio. He watched one failed compressor wipe out a client's $60K fresh produce inventory — and decided to build the alert system that should have existed. Denver-based, refrigeration-obsessed.
Seven years in industrial IoT and vibration analysis, most recently at a heavy equipment condition monitoring company. Priya designed Fleetpio's sensor integration layer and the per-unit baseline system — the core of why the detection engine produces fewer false positives than generic threshold-based alerting.
Five years as a commercial refrigeration technician before moving into product management. Carlos built the dispatch and work order interface based on what he actually needed on-site: equipment history up front, parts pre-staging before arrival, failure pattern context — not a generic ticket number and an address.
Built for Mountain West food logistics
We're headquartered in downtown Denver — 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 2400 — and our first customers are Colorado and Mountain West food logistics operators. The cold chain failures these operators face aren't hypothetical to us: Daniel spent six years in this region watching them happen, and the sensor data behind our first case studies came from facilities within 200 miles of our office.
We built regionally first because we wanted customers we could call, facilities we could physically visit, and failure events we could trace back to sensor data Fleetpio actually ingested. We're not selling a generic industrial IoT platform with refrigeration templates — we're selling a system we've validated against real cold chain failure events in real Mountain West operations.
Denver, CO 80203
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