Brutlabs LLC

Brutlabs is a network automation and AI consultancy. We work with infrastructure teams whose networks have outgrown manual operation — typically fifty devices and up, usually multi-vendor, often with a cloud footprint that has drifted into its own operating model.

We are network engineers first. The team is CCIE-level — people who operated production estates, carried the pager and ran the change windows before they wrote their first playbook. This is why the frameworks we build are repeatable rather than demo-grade, and why agentic AI can rely on the data it reasons over.

We have worked at both ends of the range: fifty-device networks where one engineer owns everything, and hyperscaler estates where nobody can hold the topology in their head. The scale decides which problems are urgent. It does not change the failure mode — automation that survives a demo and not a Tuesday.

Our view, formed the hard way, is that most network AI fails for an unglamorous reason: the data underneath it does not support reasoning. An agent that cannot query intended state cannot tell you that a running value is wrong. An agent with no change telemetry cannot connect a fault to the deploy that caused it. So we do the foundation work first, and we are direct about the fact that it is the larger half of the job.

How we work

• With your team, not around them. We build in your repositories, with your engineers, using tools they already know. A handover that requires us to stay is a failed engagement.
• Open source first. NetBox, Nautobot, Ansible, Nornir, Prometheus, Grafana. No proprietary lock-in layer that only we can maintain.
• You own it. Code, templates, pipelines, documentation and runbooks are yours, in your version control, from the first commit.
• Staged, not big-bang. Most clients engage one stage at a time and decide on the next once the previous one has proven itself.

What we will tell you

If the readiness assessment says an agent would not help you yet, we will say that, and what would have to change first. A consultancy that recommends its flagship product regardless of the assessment is not running an assessment.