About BDE
We make technology boring.
After 20+ years in enterprise technology, we noticed a pattern: the same problems, the same failed initiatives, the same excuses. Big consultancies taking years to deliver what should take months. Vendors selling complexity as a feature.
We started BDE to prove there's a better way. Turns out, when you staff engagements with senior engineers who've solved these problems before, things move fast. When you prioritize working solutions over impressive presentations, clients actually get results.
The "Making Tech Boring" Philosophy
We believe the best technology is invisible. It just works. No drama, no heroics, no 3 AM pages.
Boring is Beautiful
Complexity is the enemy. We reduce complicated systems to simple, understandable ones. Established technologies over the latest and greatest: easier to hire for, easier to maintain, easier to debug at 3 AM. Boring means profitable and sustainable.
Simple Fits in Your Head
Complexity doesn't disappear, it gets moved around. The goal is systems you can hold in your contextual space, reason about, and solve. Fewer choices means faster troubleshooting. If you can't fit it in your head, you can't fix it when it breaks.
In the Weeds
We think in code. Problems get solved by reading code, writing code, and submitting pull requests. Network traces and PCAPs win all arguments. The source code tells you the truth. Go to first principles, always.
Experience Drives Outcomes
Expertise comes from time, mistakes, exploration, and pattern recognition. It's making conclusions without consciously knowing why, then testing hypotheses fast. Seniors bifurcate problem spaces into thirds, not halves. This dramatically reduces time to resolution.
AI Makes Us Better
AI amplifies experts. It doesn't replace them. We use AI tools to explore faster, validate assumptions, and deliver in weeks what used to take months. But only expertise knows what questions to ask and when the AI is wrong. The tools make us better, not unnecessary.
Our Edge
AI amplifies experts. It doesn't replace them.
There's a fundamental truth about AI that most people get wrong: AI is a force multiplier, not a replacement for expertise. An expert with AI can accomplish what used to require a team. But AI without expertise just produces confident-sounding nonsense faster.
This is the single most powerful shift happening in technical consulting right now. Our senior engineers, people with 20+ years of experience who've seen every failure mode, can now leverage AI to explore solutions faster, validate assumptions in real-time, and deliver in weeks what used to take months.
The key is expertise directing the AI. We know what questions to ask, what patterns work, and critically, when the AI is wrong. That judgment can't be automated. It comes from decades of building and breaking systems.
What AI-Amplified Delivery Looks Like
We evaluate more options in days than traditional teams do in months
Every AI output is reviewed by engineers who know what "right" looks like
More experience means better AI direction means better results
Leadership
Founded by practitioners, not theorists
BDE was founded by engineers who spent decades in the trenches building systems, breaking systems, and rebuilding them better. We've been the ones debugging production at 2 AM, architecting systems that scaled 100x, and cleaning up after vendors who overpromised and underdelivered.
That experience shapes everything we do. We know which shortcuts come back to haunt you. We know which "best practices" are actually worst practices in disguise. And we know that the difference between a project that succeeds and one that fails usually comes down to a few critical decisions made in the first few weeks.
We built BDE to be the firm we always wished existed when we were on the client side: technically deep, refreshingly honest, and relentlessly focused on outcomes over hours billed.
Our Journey
BDE Founded
Started with a simple premise: enterprise tech problems shouldn't require enterprise-sized teams or timelines.
First Major Turnaround
Completed a full security architecture overhaul for a Fortune 500 in 9 months. A project their previous vendor estimated at 3 years.
AI-Amplified Delivery
Pioneered the use of AI as a force multiplier for expert consultants. Not a replacement for expertise, but an amplifier of it.
M&A Due Diligence
Expanded into technical due diligence, helping PE firms avoid costly acquisition mistakes.
Selective Growth
Maintained our boutique model: experienced practitioners on every engagement, with principals directly involved.
What Our Clients Say
We let our work speak for itself. Here's what leaders at Fortune 500 companies have to say.
"They accomplished in 9 months what our previous vendor couldn't do in 3 years. No excuses, no scope creep, just results."
"Finally, consultants who actually write code. They were in the trenches with our team from day one."
"Their technical due diligence saved us from a $50M acquisition mistake. Worth every penny."
"They told us what we needed to hear, not what we wanted to hear. That honesty saved our AI initiative."
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