One source of truth
Every device's real state (configuration, apps, health) lives in one place, not scattered across spreadsheets, OEM consoles, and technician memory.
Company/About
Built by people who ran fleets
Hive started with a shared frustration: too many truck rolls, too little visibility, and Android tooling built for phones instead of unattended machines. We built the control plane we wished we'd had.
How we started
Founded on too many site visits
Hive was founded by a small group of fleet operators and Android platform engineers who had spent years dispatching technicians to reboot vending machines and reflash kiosk tablets.
The founding team had run device fleets from both sides of the problem: as operators watching margins erode to windshield time, and as platform engineers frustrated that consumer-grade MDM tools stopped short of what unattended, business-critical hardware actually needed. Android Enterprise solved identity and policy. It didn't solve a vending machine that silently drops off Wi-Fi in a stairwell, or a kiosk that needs to recover itself before a customer notices.
So we built the layer above it: a control plane purpose-built for devices nobody visits. That's still the whole thesis today: deploy it, lock it down, keep it running, without anyone driving out to do it by hand.
Our philosophy
What "control plane" means to us
Not a dashboard you check. A system you trust to run the fleet correctly when nobody's watching, and to tell you the truth the moment something isn't.
Policy, not tickets
The fleet should converge on the state you declared automatically. A human should only get paged when a machine genuinely needs one.
How we work
Operating principles
Four rules that shape every product decision and every support ticket, in order of priority.
- 01 Reliability firstThe control plane fails safe. A dropped connection, a bad rollout, or a Hive outage should never leave a device worse off than before.
- 02 Unattended by defaultIf a workflow requires someone standing in front of the device, we treat it as unfinished. Every feature is designed for a machine nobody visits.
- 03 Boring on purposeFleet infrastructure earns trust by being predictable, not by being clever. We'd rather ship the dependable version a year later than the exciting version that surprises someone at 3am.
- 04 Support is productA support ticket is a signal the product should have handled automatically. Our support team feeds directly into the roadmap, not around it.
Leadership
The team behind the console
Founder-led
Small team, senior hands
Hive is founder-led and deliberately small. The people who build the platform are the same people who answer when a fleet needs help.
Operations DNA
We run fleets ourselves
Hive manages a production vending fleet in Singapore every day. The roadmap comes from machines in the field, not a whiteboard.
Android depth
Platform-level engineering
From Android Enterprise to signed AOSP builds, the team works at the layer where device problems are actually solved.
At a glance
Small team, global fleet
- Devices under management
- 100+Devices under management
- Countries live today
- 2Countries live today
- Team model
- Remote-firstBased from Singapore
- Deployment modes
- 4Deployment modes, cloud to air-gapped
Related
Keep exploring
Company
The mission, the operating principles, and how to reach the team behind Hive.
Explore →Contact
Reach sales, support, partnerships, or security directly: routes and response times inside.
Explore →Company
The full Company overview: mission, principles, leadership, and where to find us.
Explore →