Why Brutal

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.

Who chooses us

Three kinds of operators

Mittelstand owners

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

PE-backed leadership

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

Tool-fatigued teams

They've bought the licenses and sat through the demos. What they never got was working software in production. That's the part we do.

Who we are

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

Felix Ohswald

Co-founder. CEO of GoStudent.

Gregor Müller

Gregor Müller

Co-founder.

The forward deployed team

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

Outcomes · LernQuadrat

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.

1

embedded team, from first scoping call to production.

100%

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

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