One platform where the others ship a stack.
The recyclable-electronics industry runs on stitched-together vendors — one for diagnostics, one for erasure, one for grading, one for reports. Orion replaces all of them. AI- and LLM-powered intelligence — not AI-generated software.
/ The completeness gap
Most stacks ship one piece. Orion ships the whole table.
The market is fragmented — one vendor for firmware, one for erasure, one for grading, one for reporting. Orion collapses the matrix. Every row, every device class, one platform.
| Capability | Stenfox Orion | Mobile-only diagnostic tools | Legacy enterprise erasers | Suite-of-modules vendors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Device coverage | ||||
| Phones, tablets, wearables | Some | Some | ||
| Laptops, desktops, Chromebooks | Some | |||
| Macs — Intel, T2 and Apple Silicon | Some | Some | ||
| Servers and loose drives (SATA / NVMe / SAS) | Some | |||
| Mac depth | ||||
| Native DFU automation, no manual key combos | Some | |||
| MDM / Activation Lock detection bundled | Some | |||
| T2 / Apple Silicon firmware flash | Some | |||
| Erasure & compliance | ||||
| NIST 800-88 Purge with verified read-back | Some | |||
| ADISA, R2v3, IEEE 2883, DoD 5220.22-M, HMG IS5 | Some | Some | ||
| Cryptographically signed, tamper-evident certificates | Some | Some | ||
| AI grading | ||||
| AI cosmetic grading — no robotics CapEx required | ||||
| Deterministic grade ladder, customer-customisable | Some | |||
| Platform & reporting | ||||
| One license — diagnostics + grading + erasure + reporting | ||||
| Single-pane chain-of-custody, no spreadsheet stitching | ||||
| Built on 2026 vision models + LLM agents | ||||
| Warehouse operations | ||||
| Built-in warehouse management — pallets, lanes, lots, locations | ||||
| Barcode + bin scanning, mobile receiving and put-away | Some | |||
| Inbound → grade → wipe → outbound on one record | ||||
| Live operator dashboards, lane throughput, SLA timers | Some | Some | ||
| Commercial model | ||||
| Unlimited-device enterprise tier | ||||
| Per-PC unlimited for retailers and ITAD | ||||
| Pay-as-you-use, no expiring license blocks | ||||
Comparison reflects publicly documented capability and pricing patterns across the four major incumbent categories. Vendor names withheld; gaps verified against G2, Capterra and vendor support docs.
/ Three pillars of separation
Where Orion is structurally different.
01 / Unification
The whole table, not one piece of it.
Every other vendor splits diagnostics, grading, erasure and reporting into separate SKUs you have to integrate yourself. Orion ships them as one license, on one pane, with one chain-of-custody.
02 / Mac depth
Macs done the way Apple ships them.
Native DFU automation across Intel, T2 and Apple Silicon. MDM and Activation Lock detection bundled — never a separate license. Sub-90-second firmware flash on the M-series. The fastest on the planet, by design.
03 / AI without the robot tax
Software-only AI grading.
Pixel-level cosmetic grading powered by 2026 vision models — no robotics CapEx, no light-booth lock-in, no per-line install. The grade ladder is yours: SKU-customisable, deterministic, and signed.
Not just software. A warehouse, run.
Every other vendor ships a wipe tool and tells you to bolt on an external WMS. Orion ships the warehouse management system in the box — pallets, lanes, lots, locations, receiving, put-away, dispatch — wired directly to diagnostics, grading and erasure on the same record.
Inbound, scanned
Receive pallets and individual devices via barcode. Auto-generate lot IDs, attach origin, weight, customer.
Bin & lane assignment
Devices land in known locations. Operators see what's where; Orion knows what to grade, wipe, ship.
Floor-to-record
Diagnostic, grade and wipe certificate stitch onto the device's intake record — no manual reconciliation.
Outbound dispatch
Pick lists, packing slips, BOLs and per-device certs generated in one click. Hand to the carrier, done.
Lot economics, live
Margin, throughput, defect rate and SLA per lane in real time. The floor manager sees what's bleeding.
From single-bench to enterprise
One operator on one bench, or fifty lanes across three sites. Same OS. Same record. Same export.
/ Speed of the new stack
Faster, by orders — not by margins.
/ Pricing that bends to your shape
Three models. Yours, not theirs.
The incumbent playbook is rigid: per-asset stacking, expiring license blocks, separate add-ons for the things you actually need. Orion ships three commercial models so the economics fit the operation — not the other way round.
Enterprise license
Global ITADs, OEMs, defence, governments
Flat, predictable
- Unlimited devices, unlimited sites
- Dedicated success + on-site rollout
- Private-cloud or on-prem deployment
- SLA-backed certification reporting
Per-PC unlimited
Retailers, refurbishers, regional ITAD
One workstation, infinite throughput
- Pay per active workstation, not per device
- Add lanes as your floor grows
- All device classes included
- No use-or-lose license blocks
Pay-as-you-use
Buyback, marketplaces, variable-volume
Per device, no commitments
- Spin up in a day, scale at peak
- Volume bands kick in automatically
- API-first — embed into your ops
- Walk away whenever, no clawback
/ What you're replacing
The legacy stack vs. Orion.
- Diagnostics, erasure and grading sold as separate products you integrate yourself
- Warehouse management bolted on as a third-party WMS, with its own contract
- Per-asset pricing that scales linearly with volume
- Use-it-or-lose-it license blocks that expire at contract end
- Activation Lock detection sold as a third-party add-on
- Mac coverage gated by manual key combos and partial Apple Silicon support
- AI grading that needs a robotics rig to hit advertised accuracy
- Interfaces last refreshed before the iPhone X — and review patterns to match
- Reporting that lives in spreadsheets, with documented false-positive risk
- One license. Diagnostics + grading + erasure + reporting on a single pane
- Built-in warehouse OS — pallets, lanes, lots, locations, dispatch
- Three commercial models — flat, per-workstation unlimited, pay-as-you-use
- No expiring blocks. No clawback. No separate Activation Lock SKU
- Native Apple Silicon and T2 firmware flash, sub-90 seconds end-to-end
- AI cosmetic grading without robotics — software, not hardware
- Cryptographically signed certificates, verifiable outside our walls
- Modern interface designed for the warehouse floor, not the boardroom
- Built on 2026 vision models and LLM agents — intelligent, not generated
/ Ready when you are
Put Orion on your line.
30-minute live demo on your own pallet. Bring a phone, a MacBook and an SSD — we'll hand back grades and signed wipe certificates before the call ends.