Written and fact-checked by Roman Gaufman, Founder & CEO, TetherX

WHERE YOURSIX CONSTRAINS

One camera vendor. One bundled monitoring stack.

You and the platform sell the same monitoring

Cameras, AI and professional monitoring arrive inside one subscription. That is a clean pitch to an end customer. It is a problem for an installer running their own monitoring centre, or selling monitoring as the upsell that makes the job worth doing. The recurring revenue the bundle collects is the revenue you were going to collect.

The support network stops at the US border

YourSix runs from Roseville and St Paul in Minnesota and raised a US$10.5M Series A led by Vocap Partners in June 2024, around $16.1M in total. The installer network, the monitoring partners and the distribution through Jenne and ADI Global are all built for the American market. A UK, European or Australian customer is asking a US-shaped business to support a monitoring contract it was not designed around.

Thin recognition outside the Axis channel

IPVM tested YourSix in its 2023 VSaaS Shootout against Verkada, Eagle Eye, Rhombus, Genetec, Ava and Meraki, and rated it weakly. No public re-test has followed, and when IPVM surveyed more than 120 installers in 2025 YourSix appeared nowhere: not as a gainer, not as a loser, not even among the platforms people said they had considered. That silence is worth weighing before a customer commits ten years to it.

AT A GLANCE

YourSix and TetherX, question by question

The 4 questions an integrator asks on a site walk, answered for both platforms.

Question YourSix TetherX
Which devices you can connect Axis-primary. Narrower non-Axis ONVIF support exists, but the feature set is thinner on Hanwha, Hikvision, Dahua, Bosch, Avigilon, Pelco, Uniview, i-PRO, Mobotix and VIVOTEK. Rip-and-replace is the practical path to feature parity. 1,000+ integrations across 17,000+ device models, plus any ONVIF camera with full features - not a bridged, feature-reduced tier.
Who monitors your alarms YourSix runs its own monitoring centre and sells it inside the subscription. An installer who already has a centre is buying a second one. It stays. TetherX signals Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages, CHeKT and others directly, so the existing ARC, SOC contacts and alarm SLAs carry on.
Who you buy it from Through US distribution - Jenne and ADI Global - with the installer network, ARC and support all US-centric. UK, EU and Australian monitoring partners are not the primary supported set. Your installer, always. TetherX sells through the channel only and does not quote end customers direct, so the integrator keeps the account.
What you actually pay for Not published. The public product code is a multi-year prepaid base (YS-Y6OSVMS3Y), with monitoring, AI, access and Axis hardware quoted separately through distributors. An annual subscription by channel count, from £100/site/year. Not per operator seat, not per analytic, and no concurrent-user cap.

YourSix column built from: YourSix platform, YourSix on LinkedIn.

YOURSIX vs TETHERX

Axis-only bundle vs open multi-brand platform.

Both unify cameras, alarms and access. The honest read on where each one wins and where each one costs you something.

YourSix

Strengths

All-in-one Physical Security as a Service bundle - cameras, AI, professional monitoring and access in one subscription from one vendor

Premium Axis camera lineage with mature Axis-channel deployment patterns

Established US distribution through Jenne and ADI Global with bundled 24/7 ARC monitoring

Trade-offs

Axis-primary camera support - narrower non-Axis ONVIF coverage; rip-and-replace is the practical path for non-Axis sites that want full feature parity

IPVM 2023 VSaaS Shootout verdict: tested "weakly"; small absolute scale (around $16.1M total raised) and US-centric installer base

TetherX

Strengths

Open to 1,000+ integrations including Axis - no rip-and-replace

ARC integration is a la carte (Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages, CHeKT and others) - the customer picks the monitoring partner, the installer guides the choice

Cloud recording optional per camera - local-only, cloud-only or both, all in one platform

Trade-offs

You want cameras, AI, monitoring and access in one prepaid subscription, on Axis kit throughout. YourSix is the simpler buy.

Pricing figures, ownership, acquisition dates and product behaviour cited on this page are point-in-time and drawn from public sources - see the disclaimer at the bottom of this page for sourcing, "as of" date, and how to flag corrections.

WHICH ONE FITS

Pick the one your site points at

Find the column that describes the job in front of you.

Choose YourSix if

  • The site is Axis end to end and staying that way
  • The customer wants cameras, AI, access and 24/7 monitoring on one prepaid subscription from one vendor
  • The estate is entirely in the United States, where the installer network and monitoring are strongest
  • You do not run your own monitoring and are happy for the platform to provide it

Choose TetherX if

  • The site runs mixed camera brands and every one of them should get the full feature set
  • You sell your own monitoring, or the customer has an ARC contract worth keeping
  • The estate is in the UK, EU or Australia, where local support and data residency matter
  • You want a price you can work out rather than a multi-year prepaid quote assembled from separate line items
FAQ

Questions before you switch from YourSix

YourSix is an American PSaaS, or Physical Security as a Service, headquartered in Roseville, Minnesota, founded 2015 under CEO Eric Styles. It raised a US$10.5M Series A led by Vocap Partners on 13 June 2024, taking total funding to around US$16.1M across three rounds. The pitch bundles cameras, access, audio, sensors, AI and professional monitoring into one cloud subscription, Y6OS.

Camera support is the biggest constraint. In practice the integration-tested fleet is Axis hardware. YourSix no longer claims an absolute Axis-only boundary, and narrower ONVIF support for non-Axis cameras exists, but most deployments run an Axis-anchored estate. Non-Axis sites typically rip and replace to get the full feature set.

IPVM's 2023 VSaaS Shootout tested YourSix and rated it "weakly" against Verkada, Eagle Eye / Brivo, Rhombus, Genetec, Ava and Meraki (see the best VSaaS providers shortlist for the full set). Combined with Axis-only hardware support (cameras are typically the most expensive single line item in a deployment), the model concentrates risk on one camera vendor for a category where several open-camera platforms also deliver cloud + AI. TetherX is the open alternative: 1,000+ integrations including Axis, sold only through installers, TetherBox at every site, cloud recording and AI search as optional per-camera services.

Yes - and so will every other brand on the site. TetherX is a top-tier Axis integration partner; the existing Axis fleet stays exactly where it is and works through TetherX from day one. The difference: if next year the customer puts Hanwha into a new building or inherits Hikvision / Dahua at an acquired site, those cameras run on the same TetherX platform too. YourSix would require swapping every non-Axis camera before it could even start.

TetherX offers AI search as an optional per-camera service: person, vehicle and animal detection plus 63-class audio analytics, searchable across multi-site footage in seconds across an open camera fleet. For 24/7 monitoring with an alarm receiving centre operator verifying and dispatching, route verified events to monitoring stations already running on TetherX, or partner ARCs (Immix, Sentinel, CONXTD, MASterMind, Bold Patriot Manitou, Stages, CHeKT and others). YourSix ships cloud-side person / vehicle / motion analytics and runs its own Security Operations Centre (SOC) for live remote guarding inside the subscription; TetherX lets the customer pick which ARC and which monitoring model fits the site, and the installer keeps the monitoring revenue.

YourSix does not publish per-camera pricing - the public product codes (e.g. YS-Y6OSVMS3Y at ADI Global) are multi-year prepaid base subscriptions, with monitoring, AI, access and Axis hardware quoted on top through the channel. TetherX is an annual platform subscription priced by channel count (from £100/site/year) through the qualified installer, with cloud recording, AI search and ARC integration as optional per-camera services - and any camera brand under it. The installer remains the customer's single point of contact and the customer is not locked into one camera vendor.

TetherX is monitoring-agnostic. If the customer wants the same "platform handles the monitoring" experience, the customer picks any ARC (Alarm Receiving Centre) partner from the supported list (with installer guidance) and the workflow looks identical to the operator. If the customer already has an ARC contract, TetherX hands off to that ARC. YourSix bundles its own Security Operations Centre inside the subscription - which is a feature for the end customer, but competes directly with the installer's own monitoring revenue. TetherX leaves that revenue layer with the installer.

Axis is Swedish, NDAA-compliant, and a strong choice on greenfield US federal-adjacent sites - that part of the YourSix pitch is genuine. TetherX supports Axis at full feature, plus Hanwha, i-PRO, Bosch, Avigilon and other NDAA-compliant brands, so an NDAA-driven refresh is not a single-vendor decision. On hardware-as-a-service: YourSix bundles camera refresh into the subscription. TetherX is software-only, so refresh cadence and ownership stay with the installer and end customer - which suits installers who want to preserve hardware margin and give the customer a real asset rather than a rental.

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COMPANY HISTORY

YourSix: Minnesota PSaaS startup, Axis-only by design

YourSix Inc. was founded in 2015 in Roseville / St. Paul, Minnesota. Co-founders: Eric Styles (CEO), Jacob Hengel (CTO) and Matt Goldman. Backed by Vocap Partners, approximately $16.1M raised total.

The product is Y6OS - a cloud-native Physical Security as a Service (PSaaS) platform that wraps Axis cameras only inside an end-to-end cloud subscription (hardware + software + monitoring bundled in one bill, no upfront capex). Axis-only on cameras is both the moat and the ceiling. IPVM tested YourSix in 2023 and the verdict was "weakly".

Sold indirect through regional integrators like Bay Alarm on private contracts, primarily into US commercial property and retail loss-prevention accounts. Small, focused niche play - real on Axis, invisible elsewhere. The manufacturer's site is the authoritative source for current product status.

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