Hi there! We're Jeffery and Harry — regular gym-goers for the past 7 years, with Jeffery also being a gym owner himself. Ledge started with a personal, recurring annoyance that was echoed by peers throughout the fitness industry: every workout, our stuff ended up on the floor. Jeffery especially, having started his own gyms in China, noticed that his members overseas did the exact same thing.大家好！我们是 Jeffery 和 Harry——健身超过七年的老会员，其中 Jeffery 本人也是健身房老板。Ledge 源于一个反复出现的个人困扰，这种感受在健身行业中引发了广泛共鸣：每次健身，我们的东西都会落在地上。 Jeffery 在中国经营健身房时也发现，他的会员同样如此。
Like most gym-goers, we didn't question it at first — it seemed like too minor an inconvenience to worry about. But we eventually reached a breaking point: "The floor is gross, especially in a gym. Why are we putting our $1,000 phones and water bottles — things we touch constantly and bring close to our face — on the same surface that everyone walks on, in an environment with heavy weights and high foot traffic?" In a single hour-long gym session, the average person does somewhere between 20–32 sets, meaning they reach down to the floor that many times just to check their phone or take a sip of water. Once we noticed it, we couldn't un-notice it.和大多数健身者一样，我们起初也没当回事——不过是一点小麻烦。但我们终于忍不住了：「健身房的地板太脏了。为什么我们要把价值几千元的手机和水瓶——这些我们不断触摸、会带到脸边的东西——放在一个人人踩过的地面上，而且还是在一个哑铃乱飞、人流密集的环境里？」一次一小时的健身课，普通人要做 20 到 32 组训练，意味着他们要弯腰捡起手机或水瓶 20 到 32 次。一旦意识到这一点，你就再也无法忽视它。
We looked for an existing solution. There wasn't one — not one designed to actually work on gym machines at a facility level. The few products we found were flimsy magnetic pouches, clearly sourced from the same factory with different brand stickers slapped on. Nothing built to be permanent, and nothing designed for B2B.我们找过现有的解决方案。没有。没有一款是真正为健身房设施级别设计的。我们找到的几款产品，不过是一些劣质磁吸袋，明显出自同一工厂，贴着不同品牌的标签而已。没有一款是为长期使用而打造的，也没有一款面向 B2B 市场。
So we started building Ledge. Not a consumer gadget. A facility-grade product that gym owners want to stock — because cleaner, more organized gyms improve the member experience and help with retention. It's thoughtful infrastructure.于是我们开始打造 Ledge。不是消费级小玩意。而是一款健身房老板真正愿意采购的设施级产品——因为更整洁、更有序的健身房，能提升会员体验，也有助于留存。这是有温度的基础设施。
