An Agentic AI Solution by Level Up Labs, built to integrate with Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform®.
Self-hosted · local LLM by default
Turn IT requests into reusable Ansible automation. BacklogZero helps your team create reviewable playbooks and AAP job templates using the systems you already operate.
You already run these systems. BacklogZero drafts, commits, and pushes between them.
See it run
BacklogZero drafts the playbook. You review, commit, and push to AAP.
Tickets sit in ITSM. Playbooks are still written by hand. The backlog never becomes job templates.
Agents draft from the ticket. You refine, commit to Git, and push to Controller. Test in dev. Run in prod.
Service request → Ansible playbook generation and refinement → Git commit → push to AAP.
Deploy with Podbay, Podman, Docker, or VM scripts. Local language model default, your AAP auth boundaries, no external LLM API keys required.
Featured evidence
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Availability: Custom FDE only
Crane (Beta) exports an automation controller as a Git-native configuration-as-code repository and can apply that repository onto AAP. It is available in custom engineering engagements.
Availability: Generally available — self-managed
A self-managed subscription drafts a playbook from an IT request. A person reviews it, commits it to Git, and BacklogZero creates an AAP job template.
GA release · 2026.9.0
See the launch prompts. Then confirm-launch this run. Bind the controller project, sync SCM after you push, and finish CaC apply from the IDE.
Included for current subscribers. Take the 2026.9.0 appliance update, then fully restart the IDE MCP process and refresh the web UI.
Runs on your infrastructure
Self-hosted on your infrastructure. Same Ansible patterns you already use, only accelerated.
Availability: Generally available — self-managed
Self-hosted, containerized install. A local LLM is the default. Optional cloud providers (Anthropic, OpenAI) and a retrieval database stay on infrastructure you operate.Availability: Generally available — self-managed
Agents draft playbooks. You review and refine them, commit to Git, and approve what Ansible Automation Platform runs.Availability: Generally available — self-managed
Self-managed subscriptions work with Jira and ServiceNow, Git through AAP projects, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Other ITSM or Git layouts are separately scoped custom engineering.Availability: Custom FDE only
Enterprise authentication and single sign-on are not included in the self-managed subscription. They are a separately scoped custom engineering engagement.Availability: Generally available — self-managed
Annual subscription at the published list price. When we verify your AAP entitlement, the term can co-term to your Red Hat anniversary. Custom engineering is billed separately.Availability: Generally available — self-managed
Scripts for Podbay, Podman, Docker, or a VM.Availability: Generally available — self-managed
Web UI, plus a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for agentic interfaces.Availability: Generally available — self-managed
More tickets become playbooks and job templates your team reviews and Controller runs.Greater Ansible ROI Starts Here
Self-hosted by default
Runs on infrastructure you control. No cloud LLM keys required.
BacklogZero is built to run entirely on your own infrastructure, because that's how it works in our own environments. No cloud LLM API keys needed. No long-term vendor lock-in. You control the language model, the data access, and the privacy perimeter.
Level Up believes your company should be driving your future with AI, not simply along for the ride with large language model providers.
Technical demo
Self-managed subscriptions are on the pricing page. Use this form to request a technical demonstration of the self-managed product.