Environmental Statement

Where we stand

GearHub is built around a simple idea: the most sustainable instrument is the one that stays in use. Everything on this page follows from that. We would rather state plainly what we do and don't do than decorate the footer with a leaf icon.

Repair

Our core product makes repair easier than replacement. Service histories, verified techs, maintenance reminders, and quote-to-job workflows all exist so that a worn instrument gets fixed rather than discarded. Every repair a GearHub tech logs is a purchase that didn't need to happen.

Reuse

Verified provenance makes second-hand gear safer to buy and easier to sell, which keeps instruments circulating instead of gathering dust or heading to landfill. Stolen-gear reporting and recovery puts instruments back in players' hands. Point-of-sale ownership transfer means a used guitar arrives with its history intact, worth more and trusted more.

Footprint

We run lean by design. Our infrastructure scales to zero when nobody is using it, so idle servers aren't burning power on our behalf. There are no ad networks or third-party tracking scripts spending cycles in your browser. Images are sized and cached at the edge rather than shipped at full resolution to every device.

The metered research tools behind features like serial lookup run only when you ask them to, never speculatively in the background. Our no-generative-content policy means we don't spend compute producing images or filler text.

Honesty

We are a small company and we won't pretend otherwise. We don't buy offset badges and we won't make net-zero claims we can't evidence. As we grow, our commitment is to measure what our infrastructure actually consumes and publish what we find here, in plain language.

If you have questions about any of this, or you can see something we should be doing better, write to us. This page carries the same last-updated date as our other policies and changes to it are deliberate.