AI for managed IT, built in the open
This is where XL.net, a Chicago managed-IT company, builds with AI and shows the results: the systems we run, the governance documents we help you write, the training we teach, and the agent that answers our phone. Everything here is real and running, including the site you are reading. Tour it, use it, or ask Tron Netter about any of it, 24/7.
What runs here
Five working surfaces, not a brochure. Each one is live today, and each one links to the real thing.
Our Work: a tour of the lab
Everything on our work floor is real and running: the Software Brain, the conversation-first AI engine behind every exhibit; the @aicompany/core middleware that wraps an AI persona and a whole working site around one config file; client-delivery platforms; our autonomy experiments; and tools our own team builds and submits. The site you are reading is one of the exhibits.
Tour the exhibit hall →AI Governance Writer
Tron Netter reads your website before the first question, then interviews you one question at a time and drafts an AI acceptable use policy, an FFIEC-aligned bank AI policy suite, or working-draft document sets mapped to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, or ISO/IEC 42001. Free: sign in with Google or Microsoft, and the documents are yours in Word, watermarked DRAFT until you confirm the final.
Start a governance draft →Your AI Roadmap
A private portal for your whole company: eleven steps from an AI governance document on file to a scorecard of the builders on your team. Submit AI-built work and an automated editorial panel reviews it, publishing what it can verify to a private work page for your company; request projects worth building and your own people claim and ship them; then give those builders a sanctioned platform, the data they need, and the tools you have approved. Nine steps are free, two are paid training. Sign in with a work email; your roadmap is visible only to your company.
Open your roadmap →AI Builders training
We believe most knowledge workers will be AI Builders by 2028, and we started with ourselves. Learn to build your own AI workflows and automations the smart and safe way: a four-hour hands-on workshop ($995 one-time, capped at 8 attendees) or a weekly cohort hour ($495/month, capped at 6 people), taught by the XL.net team.
Explore the programs →AI News for Business
Every night Tron Netter reads the AI news and writes up the one story a business owner should actually care about. Every article discloses that an AI wrote it, and our methodology page documents the publication gates, the two-named-sources minimum, and the corrections policy.
Meet Tron Netter
Tron Netter is our AI agent: one persona across web chat, text, email, and voice. It is not a demo. It runs the governance interviews, takes work submissions by email, and writes the nightly news, and you can reach it any hour.
- Chat · the widget in the corner of every page
- Call or text · (872) 350-4325, answered 24/7
- Email · Tron.Netter@ai.xl.net
Guardrails by architecture: every email it sends is BCC'd to a human, and its public persona has no tools and no live internet access, so it can never take an action we have not designed.
All the ways to reach it →The company behind it, and the sister site
XL.net
Our parent company delivers managed IT to small and mid-size businesses across Chicago, certified to SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022. The numbers above are theirs, and this lab exists to push that service further with AI.
Visit xl.net →roleplay.xl.net
Our external-tenant experiment: what happens when the Software Brain powers a product that is not about XL.net at all. A public multi-user AI playground running directly on the Brain SDK, with realtime voice, Google sign-in gated by admin approval, and isolated per-tenant databases.
Start where you like
Draft a governance policy for free, open a roadmap for your company, learn to build, or just ask Tron Netter what any of this means for your business.