Why Brix
We learned
the hard way.
Brix Intelligence exists because small operations deserve the same leverage the big ones bought years ago, without the enterprise price tag.
Brix Intelligence exists because small operations deserve the same leverage the big ones bought years ago, without the enterprise price tag.
Most automation companies sell you software and walk away. We build systems that actually get used, then stick around to make sure they keep working.
Brix Intelligence is led by Chad Derosier. He founded it in 2026 after two decades running operations inside small Pacific Northwest businesses: wineries, farms, food and beverage producers, event venues, retail and CPG.
Most recently he managed custom crush at Naumes Crush & Fermentation in Medford, and before that he worked in the cellar at Quady North Winery in Jacksonville. Along the way he handled budgets, SOPs, team structure, and compliance, including OLCC and OSHA requirements. It is the unglamorous infrastructure that keeps a small business upright.
That is what Brix is built on. Chad knows what the work feels like, where the time goes, and which systems quietly earn their keep. When you work with Brix, you work with him directly.
Away from the keyboard, he is usually out with his dog, Bowie, or visiting one of the numerous wineries the Rogue Valley has to offer.
The name comes from winemaking. Brix is the measure of sugar in the grape, the number that tells you when the fruit is ready, when potential becomes something real. It's the moment of readiness. That's what we're after for your business: the point where the groundwork is done and the value is finally there for the taking.
We started in the Rogue Valley, working in and alongside small businesses drowning in manual work: customer lists in spreadsheets, follow-ups done by memory, sales and inventory data scattered across three or four systems that didn't talk to each other. These are good businesses run by people who never had time to fix the plumbing. That's the gap we fill. Our work so far spans wine, wellness, and food and beverage. See who we work with.
A few of the businesses and partners we work with, described plainly: what we did, and nothing more.
A Squarespace website with online booking, payments, and waivers for a wellness studio in Ontario, Oregon, offering Pilates, breathwork, yoga, and equestrian wellness. We are building it in phases so each piece works before the next is added. Phase one covers the full site, class and event booking, payments, digital waivers, client intake, and a media gallery. Phase two adds a membership video library, livestream classes, and email marketing.
Rogue Valley Vintners promotes wine and wine tourism across the Rogue Valley AVA. We ran a technical SEO and content audit of roguevalleywine.com, then worked through the findings: updated crawler rules so AI search tools can find the site while scrapers stay out, tidied the site's plugins, added Terms and Privacy pages, standardized the contact email sitewide, and rebuilt the Labor Day winery page. The site was built by a third party. Our job is to make it work harder.
Mache Co. is our design partner. They bring logos, graphic design, brand packages, social media management, and select website design. We bring the build, the automation, and the systems behind it. We work together on a variety of projects.
Technology should disappear into the work. You shouldn't have to think about the system, learn a new dashboard every quarter, or babysit an integration that breaks every time something updates. If we've done our job, you forget we were ever there, until you realize how much time you've gotten back.
We're not an agency with account managers and change orders. You work directly with Chad, the person building your system. That means faster decisions, honest answers, and no one between you and the work.
Sell you software, then disappear.
Build the system, then stay to tune it.
Six-month timelines and enterprise pricing.
Focused builds in weeks, larger ones in phases, priced for small operations.
Templates dressed up as custom work.
Built around your operation, never a template.
Layers of account managers and handoffs.
You work directly with Chad, who builds it.
No pitch deck. No discovery fee. Just a conversation about what's actually in the way.