Who builds with Brutal, and why

Operators who are done with pilots. Leaders who want software that ships, documented decisions, and a number that moves.

Three kinds of operators

Mittelstand owners

Running real businesses on aging systems. Rebuilding the software without stopping the machine that pays everyone's salary.

PE-backed leadership

A portfolio-level modernization mandate and a clock. Documented, auditable builds that survive diligence and leadership changes.

Tool-fatigued teams

The licenses are bought. The demos are done. What's still missing is working software in production. That's the part we do.

Operators and engineers

Brutal is built by the operators behind GoStudent, one of Europe's largest tutoring companies, and by engineers who ship inside client teams every week.

Felix Ohswald

Co-founder. CEO of GoStudent

Gregor Müller

Co-founder. COO of GoStudent

The forward deployed team

Senior engineers who build production AI systems from inside client teams across the DACH region.

Case study

A legacy TYPO3 stack, retired without stopping the business.

Most organizations run on a system nobody fully understands anymore. LernQuadrat had a decade of it. We rebuilt it as a modern, AI-ready platform while the business kept running.

10+ yrs

of legacy TYPO3, rebuilt as a modern, AI-ready platform.

embedded team, from first scoping call to production.

100%

owned by the client: code, data, and infrastructure.

Ready to move a number?

Bring us one concrete problem and get a straight answer.