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About Nautomation Prime

Founder-led education, tools, and consulting for enterprise Cisco automation

About Nautomation Prime

Nautomation Prime exists to close the gap between complex Cisco infrastructure and automation teams can actually understand, trust, and own. The business brings together learning content, premium automation tools, and professional services around one clear idea: no black-box delivery.

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  • Founder-led
  • Enterprise Cisco focus
  • Education plus delivery
  • Ownership-first automation

What Nautomation Prime does

Tutorials, deep dives, and production-grade guidance help engineers build real Cisco automation capability.

  • Deploy

Premium, production-ready tools and practical implementation patterns shorten the path from idea to usable automation.

  • Transform

PRIME Framework engagements help organisations move from ad hoc scripting to measurable, governed, team-owned delivery.

Transparency note: Nautomation Prime is an early-stage, founder-led practice. Delivery methods and technical examples are based on Christopher's enterprise engineering experience, and metrics or outcomes are presented as representative unless explicitly identified as direct Nautomation Prime client results.

Why Nautomation Prime exists

The Birth of the PRIME Framework

Before launching Nautomation Prime, Christopher delivered custom automation in enterprise roles and project environments the traditional way: teams described pain points, automation was built, and technical delivery completed. Projects succeeded technically, but a pattern kept appearing:

6 months later, the automation had stalled.

Not because the code broke, but because:

  • 🔻 Nobody could modify it when requirements changed (vendor lock-in)
  • 🔻 Leadership questioned the value (no ROI metrics)
  • 🔻 The "easy" automations had been built (leaving hard, high-value work undone)
  • 🔻 Teams didn't know what to automate next (no roadmap)

We realised: Delivering scripts isn't enough. Sustainable automation requires a structured methodology.

That's why we created the PRIME Framework—a five-stage approach that ensures every automation project delivers:

✅ Measurable value (Pinpoint opportunities based on data, not guesswork)
✅ Optimised workflows (Re-engineer processes before automating)
✅ Production-grade quality (Implement with safety, testing, documentation)
✅ Proven ROI (Measure performance with concrete metrics)
✅ Team capability (Empower internal staff to maintain and extend)

The name "PRIME" reflects our commitment to excellence over mediocrity:

  • **P**inpoint Inefficiencies
  • **R**e-engineer Workflows
  • **I**mplement Solutions
  • **M**easure Performance
  • **E**mpower Your Team

The framework is built on the PRIME Philosophy (our five core engineering principles), ensuring every line of code is transparent, measurable, owned, safe, and empowering.

Learn about the PRIME Framework →

What We Do

We provide education, premium automation tools, and professional services—all guided by the PRIME Framework and PRIME Philosophy.

🎓 The Nautomation Prime Foundation

Our free education arm. All tutorials, deep dives, and production-grade guidance live under the Nautomation Prime Foundation and teach network automation through real-world Cisco use cases:

  • Tutorials: Step-by-step practical scripts for beginners, intermediate, and expert levels
  • Deep Dives: Production-grade code walkthroughs with line-by-line explanations
  • Free & Low-Cost Services for Charities: Cisco and general networking engineering, infrastructure advice, and Python-based automation for registered UK charities and CICs
  • Learning Path: From first Netmiko script to advanced Nornir parallelisation

Every script is explained line-by-line, every design decision documented, and every piece of Foundation content stays free to access.

🛠️ Premium Automation Tools

Production-hardened Python tools for common network automation tasks, available to buy as-is or customised to your environment:

Each tool can be purchased on request, with optional customisation — see the Script Library for pricing and details.

💼 Professional Services via PRIME Framework

Structured automation delivery through a proven five-stage methodology:

Pinpoint → Re-engineer → Implement → Measure → Empower

Our Engineering Philosophy

Every project we deliver is guided by the PRIME Philosophy—five core principles that ensure transparency, measurability, ownership, safety, and empowerment.

These principles define how we build automation (pragmatic, transparent, reliable), while the PRIME Framework defines what we deliver (structured methodology from discovery to team capability).

Read the complete PRIME Philosophy →

The Team

Christopher Davies - Founder & Principal Automation Engineer

Christopher specialises in enterprise Cisco automation, with deep expertise in Python, ISE, and Zero Trust architectures. His mission is to democratise network automation through transparency and education.

Read more about Christopher's background and story →

Trading Status: Christopher Davies, intending to trade as (T/A) Nautomation Prime. Not yet trading — this site is being built ahead of launch. See Foundation Legal Status & Governance for the current position.

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Ready to Transform Your Network Automation?

Whether you want to learn, deploy tools, or build bespoke solutions, let's talk.

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Technology Stack

Our tools and guides leverage industry-standard Python libraries:

  • Netmiko - Multi-vendor SSH automation
  • Paramiko - Low-level SSH protocol implementation
  • Nornir - Multi-threaded automation framework
  • TextFSM - Structured parsing of CLI output
  • Pandas & OpenPyXL - Professional Excel reporting
  • PyATS - Cisco test automation framework

Licensing & Community Commitment

We balance proprietary methodology and product protection with community-driven education:

🔒 PRIME Framework & Philosophy (All Rights Reserved)

Our methodology is proprietary. The PRIME Framework and Philosophy represent our core IP and competitive differentiation.

📚 Educational Content (CC-BY 4.0)

Tutorials, guides, and technical deep dives are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution. Share them freely in courses, blogs, and educational settings—just credit Nautomation Prime.

💻 Premium Tools (Commercial Licence)

Our automation tools are premium products. Buy a tool as-is (unmodified) under a commercial licence, or commission a customised build for your environment. Licensed source is included so your team can audit, learn from, and maintain what they run:

  • Full source transparency for the tools you licence
  • Buy as-is or customised to your estate
  • Setup runbook and documentation included
  • Direct support from the engineer who built it

Bespoke client code is licenced under Apache 2.0 or MIT as agreed during engagement.

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Get Involved

Use Our Tools

Browse the Script Library for ready-to-use automation tools and production-grade code samples.

Learn Network Automation

Explore our Technical Deep Dives for comprehensive guides.

Request Custom Solutions

Need bespoke automation? Contact us to discuss your requirements.

Feedback & Support

Found a bug, need support, or have a feature request for one of our tools? Get in touch—we read every message.

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Between the Lines

A well-built automation runs quietly enough that a team stops thinking about it—the same quality a good forest path has, where all the work that went into it is invisible and the point is that you can walk it without paying attention.

Anything built that carefully is really buying someone's attention back. What they choose to spend it on is not our business, and it is the entire reason for doing the work.

Mission: To empower network engineers through the PRIME Framework—delivering automation with measurable ROI, production-grade quality, and sustainable team capability built on the PRIME Philosophy of transparency, measurability, ownership, safety, and empowerment.