Jim Gurol

I'm the CEO of California Telecom, a managed network services provider I founded in 2008, and co-founder of Netverge, an AI-powered network intelligence platform launched in 2019. For 17+ years I've helped mid-market and enterprise companies design, deploy, and operate multi-site networks. My team handles SD-WAN, firewalls, WiFi, LAN/WAN, circuits, network monitoring, and voice/UCaaS. We spend over $150,000 a month with carriers including AT&T, Spectrum, Frontier, Cox, Cogent, and Crown Castle, so I have direct visibility into telecom procurement and pricing dynamics. At Netverge, I'm building AI agents and local LLM systems that unify network monitoring, documentation, and ticketing into one platform. I work hands-on with multi-agent orchestration, Claude and Gemma deployments, a...