⚡ AI · Automation · Security

Repetitive work is a design flaw.
We engineer it away.

BPAutonomics is a Dutch consultancy that builds autonomous systems — agentic AI on your own infrastructure, zero-touch automation, and security engineered in from the first line. Designed so that humans decide and machines do the rest.

25+years automating
87Klines · zero-touch cloud engine
1,000+servers run autonomously
1,000+automated runbooks
~1,000retail sites · rollout design
15+AI agents in production
What we do

Three disciplines, one principle: autonomous by design.

Most consultancies deliver reports. We deliver running systems — built on your infrastructure, under your control, with the safety nets to prove it.

Agentic AI — on your premises

AI systems that act, not chat. Designed compliance-first for regulated industries:

  • On-prem LLMs — data never leaves your building
  • Zero-training architecture: knowledge stays in your systems of record, retrieved per query with full provenance
  • Human-in-the-loop by design; audit trail on every action

Process & infrastructure automation

The signature move: take an end-to-end human process and make it run itself.

  • Zero-touch deployment — datacenters and store sites from bare metal, unattended
  • System-to-system integration: REST-first, event-driven, idempotent
  • Desired state, self-healing, full CI/CD pipelines

Security engineering

Security as an emergent property of good architecture — not a bolt-on.

  • API security architecture and assessment
  • Automated secret, password and certificate rotation
  • Hardening, root-of-trust design, security stacks in the pipeline
BPAutonomics Lightning

A working system in weeks. Not a roadmap in quarters.

Lightning is our fixed-scope strike engagement: we embed, map one high-friction process, and return with a running proof-of-concept on your own infrastructure — before committee number three has scheduled its kick-off.

  • Week 1–2: process walkthrough with the people who actually do the work; systems and data-surface mapping
  • Week 3–5: working prototype — deployed on-prem, on real (anonymised) cases
  • Week 6: measured results, cost-per-case economics, and a phased plan you can hold us to
  • Fixed price. Your data never leaves the building. No dependency lock-in.
Track record

Twenty-five years of the same verb: make it autonomous.

Client names withheld by design — references available in conversation.

Latest · Insurance operations · 2026

A universal claims-operations overlay above the global system of record

A multilingual sidecar turns a REST-based dossier platform into a guided operational workspace without replacing it. Each new intake receives an isolated AI agent for OCR, document vision, contract and policy lookup, evidence-linked field proposals and deterministic validation. Personal channel synchronisation removes manual double entry; correct expert-fee calculation preserves truthful deductible data; and a time-limited, insurer-scoped portal makes onsite audits self-service. Humans retain authority over uncertainty and legal judgment, while every source, rule, approval, write and read-back remains auditable.

Private cloud · Silicon Valley vendor

Zero-touch datacenter deployment engine — 873 functions, 87,000 lines

Authored an automation engine that deploys complete private-cloud datacenters unattended: hypervisor to security stack, password and certificate rotation included. Deals on two continents were won on the strength of this code.

Global retail · up to 1,000 sites

Whole-store infrastructure, built from scratch by pipeline

Designed and programmed the complete store-build process for a global retailer: physical infrastructure to running site, zero-touch, self-healing, desired-state — repeatable across a fleet approaching a thousand locations.

Global IT operations

1,000+ servers, 100+ automatons, 1,000+ automated runbooks

Directed continuous-improvement automation for the global operations of a leading autonomics provider — leading twelve senior engineers, replacing manual change, deployment and incident handling with machines. Operational effort fell sharply while client satisfaction rose; the method was later adopted far beyond the original estate.

Mission-critical operations

Trading floors and power-plant control — where a millisecond is money

Engineered mission-critical trading-desk and power-plant steering environments at a firm famous for its 100% uptime guarantee. Led full automation of the provisioning image: every build reproducible, every change reversible. The safety-net philosophy BPAutonomics still builds by was learned here — as an operator, not an observer.

Defense

National defense programmes — 2021 to 2025

DevOps and automation architecture for defense programmes. Scope and detail classified — precisely as it should be.

R&D · in production daily

A private agentic-AI ecosystem — 15+ autonomous agents

Designed, built and operates a full agentic platform on a self-hosted GPU cluster: voice-first assistant, persistent long-term memory, blue/green high availability, autonomous infrastructure and business agents. Not a demo — it runs the founder's house, infrastructure and companies every day.

Recognition

Hackathon winner, Silicon Valley — and five consecutive years a vendor Technology Champion

Three months into a Silicon Valley infrastructure company, became the first engineer worldwide to chain its entire product portfolio end-to-end — including the sales content to go with it. Recognised five years running as a Technology Champion; published author on infrastructure automation.

Experience branches

Sectors we know from the inside.

Different industries, identical disease: skilled people spending their days on work a machine should do.

01

Retail

Infrastructure rollout and store-build automation designed for fleets up to 1,000 sites. Zero-touch delivery, self-healing operations, desired-state everything.

02

Insurance

Claims intake, multi-system synchronisation and reporting automation — compliance-first agentic AI that respects carrier contracts, GDPR and the EU AI Act by construction.

03

Military & Defense

Automation architecture delivered inside classified programmes, 2021–2025. Cleared ways of working; details stay where they belong.

04

Technology

Silicon Valley infrastructure and API-security vendors: solution architecture, API-first product engineering, and the automation engines behind major enterprise wins.

How we work

Principles that survive contact with production.

Learned on trading floors, proven across two decades of autonomous systems.

Autonomous by designIf a human does it twice, it's a candidate. If they do it daily, it's a defect.
Safety nets over heroicsMistakes are expected — systems must absorb them. Every action reversible, every state recoverable.
Model does content, code does controlAI proposes within schemas; deterministic code executes. Never a probabilistic model driving a brittle UI.
Your data stays yoursOn-prem AI, zero-training architectures, provenance on every answer. Compliance as a property, not a promise.
Git first, pipeline firstEverything versioned, everything repeatable. If it isn't in the pipeline, it doesn't exist.
Humans decideJudgment stays with people — deliberately. Machines earn autonomy per task, with an audit trail to show for it.
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About the founder

Michell Grauwmans

Engineer, architect, and pattern-thinker — Computer Engineering (1996–2000), building autonomous systems since 2007. Based in Breda, the Netherlands.

The origin story is simple: after rebuilding the same demo environment two weekends in a row for a meeting that kept cancelling, he refused to do it a third time — and automated the entire thing instead. Weeks later that same instinct won a company-wide hackathon. It never stopped.

Since then the work has always been the same verb applied to bigger nouns: remote infrastructure management, fully automated provisioning for mission-critical trading floors, a thousand automated runbooks for global IT operations, zero-touch datacenters, store fleets that build themselves — and today, agentic AI ecosystems that run businesses.

BPAutonomics B.V. is his consultancy: one principal architect, a network of proven specialists when scale demands it, and a working lab of self-hosted AI infrastructure most enterprises haven't seen yet.

Contact

Bring us a process that hurts.

Tell us what your people do by hand, how often, and in which systems. You'll get an honest first read — feasible or not, and what it would take.

Business requests

Use the form — it lands directly with the founder.

Response time

Within two business days, usually faster.

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