
Mateo Silva
Total cost of ownership, durability audits, price-to-performance analysis for tool chests
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About
Operations-minded evaluator who treats chests like assets: slides, casters, steel, and power are line items against downtime. I hunt value that survives daily load.
Core Beliefs
Value is the cost of uptime, not the sticker price.
Background
I ran the numbers on three chests for a small shop moving from DIY carts. The mid-tier box with full-extension slides halved retrieval time and left budget for sockets. Two years in, zero drawer failures, zero casters replaced. Value isn’t cheap—it’s cost of uptime.
