A lattice communications tower with a beacon at dusk before the Organ Mountains
Chaparral Wireless Networks · CWN Ops

AI on staff.
Operators in command.

NICK is the AI operations system we built inside a working broadband and cable network in southern New Mexico. It watches the network, answers the phone, keeps the record — and airs our cable channel. Meet NICK →

We operate communications infrastructure. We built an AI to help us operate it.

Not a vendor demo, not a laboratory. NICK runs on real towers, real plant, real customers. This is what it does, and how a person stays in command of it.

RF and coax connectors on a rack, one amber indicator lit
Site 07 · 06:42 MDT

The network is out here.

Radios, coax, fiber and headend gear across the high desert — the plant a small operator actually runs. NICK works from the systems that already run it, not a rip-and-replace. What we operate →

One system. Many jobs — and every action stays on the record, so people stay in control.

Watch

Round-the-clock monitoring and alerting that reaches a human with a verdict, not a wall of red — and proves its own alarms work.

Assist

Answers the phone, helps the front desk and the field crew, and hands off to a person the moment it matters.

Build

Provisioning, automation, and even a live cable channel — AI-produced, human-gated.

Remember

Keeps the documentation, the tickets and the change record current — the institutional memory small operators never have time to write.

A signal sweep across desert terrain contours

It finds the problem before the phone rings.

A communications tower on a desert ridge at dawn
32.0197° N · Chaparral, New Mexico

NICK wasn’t invented in Silicon Valley.

It grew up inside a cable and wireless network in southern New Mexico — and it earns its autonomy the way you’d grow a new hire’s: read-only first, human-approved always.

Coverage · AZ 243°

One system, spanning the whole plant.

The alarm knows which customer, the customer record knows which device, the device knows what changed last Tuesday and who approved it. That continuity is the point — and it isn’t a product you can buy.

A tower and its coverage contours radiating across the desert
A field technician at the base of a tower at dawn
Built by operators

The same system can run your network.

NICK runs our network; it can help run yours — remote troubleshooting, repair and AI-assisted management, from here. You’re hiring an operator, not licensing software: NICK itself isn’t for sale, but what it lets us do is. See what we offer →

AI on staff. Humans accountable.

Production changes require human authorization, and authorized people keep control of automated operation. We publish how we govern it — the principles, not the internals. Read our public governance statement →


Let’s talk.

If you run an independent cable or broadband network, we can help you run it — remote troubleshooting, repair and AI-assisted management — or just compare notes on the AI side. Straight conversation, no pressure. hello@cwn-ops.com