Lab Tests Lie.
The Field Tells the Truth.
Why a team of engineers built an intelligence engine for the outdoors.
We are engineers, not influencers.
The YardBase team brings together backgrounds in Automotive R&D, Consumer Robotics, and Fluid Dynamics. In our previous lives, we used HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing)—shaking components until they shattered—to break products before they hit the market.
But we learned a hard truth: The Lab is not the World.
A robot mower that survives a sterile test chamber might die in the abrasive dust of a Texas drought. A smart valve that passes a factory cycle test might seize up in the calcium-heavy water of the Midwest.
The stressors of the real world are infinite. A single lab cannot simulate them all.
We built YardBase to solve the 'Spec Sheet Gap.' We aggregate millions of data points from the field—hidden in forums, Reddit threads, and repair logs—to create a single source of truth.
We don't guess. We map user complaints to local physics (slope, heat, water hardness) to predict if a product will survive your specific yard.