ABOUT BMRK
Built for businesses that build things.
BMRK is a boutique AI design and implementation studio. We help business owners replace legacy systems, unify their data, and build the internal tools their teams actually need — at a price that makes sense for a small business.
CORE PRINCIPLES
Scope honestly.
We tell you when a project is out of scope or better left alone. Not every problem needs a custom solution.
Build what the team can use.
Your people should be able to use it, onboard new employees on it, and take a well-earned vacation without it breaking. We maintain the code. That's our job.
AI only where it earns its keep.
Traditional software is often the right answer. We use AI when it meaningfully outperforms the standard option.
Numbers over adjectives.
Every engagement ends with measurable metrics we agree to up front. "Better" is not a metric.
No lock-in, ever.
You own the code, the data, and the deployment. Every engagement ends with a full transfer and team training.
WHO RUNS THIS
Brian
I started BMRK because I kept watching small businesses pay for software that didn't fit. One client was spending twenty-five thousand dollars a year on a product that did about 60% of what they needed. I rebuilt it in five months. They pay half. They own the code. I run it and keep it current for them.
I'm not tool-stack limited. I work across Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI depending on the task. I run local models on my own GPU hardware when clients don't want their data touching the internet. I still run traditional ML — regression, k-means, hypothesis testing — when the problem calls for it. Not everything needs a language model.
I build my own tools too. I wrote the wireframe system I use to show clients what I'm building before I build it. They comment in it. AI reads the comments and folds them into the plan. The whole workflow stays in one place.
How I think about ownership
"It's their code, not anybody else's. I run it for them, keep it up to date for them. I monitor it for them, but they own the intellectual property. If they don't want to own the IP, I can charge them like a SaaS company. But I don't think people want that."
What I'm building right now
A family logistics system. It reads emails from my kids' schools, pulls dates and locations, checks calendars, runs routes through Google Maps, factors in weather — and figures out which parent can be where and when. Multiple kids, multiple schools, multiple schedules. It's a work in progress. AI development usually is.
SERVICE REGION
150 miles from DC.
We do on-site process mapping and stakeholder interviews. Our region covers Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, and surrounding areas — roughly 150 miles from the Capitol.
Let's talk about what you're building.
No pitch deck. No pressure. Just a conversation about your operation.