Increasingly channel-friendly NetBox has made its interactive AI agent embedded directly into the NetBox platform generally available. At the same time, the company unveiled a strategic partnership with World Wide Technology as NetBox invests heavily in the channel in 2026.
Unveiled in July, NetBox Copilot is an interactive AI agent that’s embedded directly into the NetBox platform. Now generally available, Copilot will empower infrastructure teams to automate changes to their infrastructure as well as validate data completeness and quality, investigate changes for troubleshooting and compliance, assess impact before maintenance, plan capacity across sites and infrastructure, and build automation workflows and operational playbooks, the company said.
NetBox Copilot makes infrastructure data more accessible to IT and channel partners, as well as to less frequent NetBox users, Kris Beevers, NetBox’s co-founder and CEO, told CRN.
“I don’t think there is an AI data center in the world built without NetBox,” he said.
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Founded in 2023 after it spun out of DNS platform provider NS1, NetBox Labs offers what the company calls “the world’s most popular ecosystem for operating, automating and securing networks and infrastructure.” NetBox’s widespread use in various infrastructures has led to a rapid partner-led growth strategy. Beevers said that as a result, 40 percent of the company’s growth is expected to come from partners over the next year.
In fact, the fastest-growing team within NetBox is the partner team, he said.
“The first 12 to 18 months for us as a business were very direct. We had an established brand. … The reason that [channel interest] has happened so quickly is really the open source. Basically all of our partners already all use NetBox in their reference architectures for network or for automation, AI practices, OT [and] security practices, and so the commercial brand and differentiation has kind of locked in and spread real fast across these organizations, which has caused us to surge our investment in this area,” Beevers said.
NetBox in July revealed a $35 million Series B funding round aimed at helping enterprises build and manage complex network infrastructure. The company said at the time that the funding was earmarked for innovation, helping the upstart scale to meet global market demand and hire across customer success, engineering, marketing, product, partnerships and sales.
The company is also heavily investing in what it calls “AI for infrastructure and infrastructure for AI,” with significant product development and team growth over the past year. It’s a natural adjacency since NetBox provides the knowledge for AIOps, Beevers said.
NetBox And WWT
The newly forged partnership between NetBox and WWT will bring the company’s platform for network and infrastructure management into WWT’s global advanced IT services portfolio, according to NetBox.
Beevers said that NetBox is strategic to WWT and that its technology is spanning “multiple practices” within partner organizations like WWT.
Via the partnership, NetBox Labs’ commercial platforms—NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise—can be used within WWT-led architecture design and validation efforts to serve up a clear view of what’s in a network, how the infrastructure changes over time and how operational reality differs from the intended state of the infrastructure, the companies said. NetBox’s platform will also be integrated into the WWT Advanced Technology Center, an ecosystem of physical and virtual labs designed to help customers evaluate, design, build and deploy modern architectural solutions at scale. WWT customers will be able to purchase the NetBox Labs platform as the foundational layer for infrastructure modeling and automation via their WWT-led engagement.
In addition to WWT, NetBox is expanding its strategic partnership strategy with more solution provider leaders, including Ahead and Presidio, later this year, the company told CRN.
