Breakthrough AI from
Data to Deployment

BDL delivers proven data, evaluations, and outcomes to AI labs, governments, and the Fortune 500.

Trusted by leading organisations

Home Office
Pixie
Fintech
Investment Banking
Government

Our Capabilities

Everything you need to deploy at scale

Specialist expertise across observability, architecture and engineering — delivered by teams who have done it before.

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Measure Everything

Use traces and metrics to track everything in your system. Embrace open source tooling like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.

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Cutting Edge Architecture

Scalable and responsive architecture using cutting-edge techniques — event-driven systems, Kubernetes, and streaming platforms — to gain deep operational insight.

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Professional Teams

Get the right people at the right time to manage your technical requirements. Senior engineers, architects and DevOps specialists on demand.

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Agentic Solutions

Transform your data and expertise into agentic solutions that continuously improve with human interaction.

The Team

Meet the experts

Our team of senior engineers, architects and DevOps specialists are there to help you deploy and support your systems — letting you take advantage of best-in-class software.

AI Architect & CTO

Jim Collins

Lead DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes)

Andrey Kozichev

Application Architect

Nicholas Smith

Streaming & Event Driven Architecture

Romain Gallet

Software Engineer (Java / Clojure)

Prashanth Kumar

Senior Software Engineer (Go / Rust)

Lee Provoost

Forward Deployment MLOps Engineer

Andy Gray

MCP Server Developer

Rohit Gokhale

UX Researcher

Priya Patel

Technologies We Work With
Kubernetes Kafka Go Rust Java Clojure Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Terraform AWS GCP PostgreSQL Flink Kubernetes Kafka Go Rust Java Clojure Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Terraform AWS GCP PostgreSQL Flink

Track Record

Over a decade of delivery for organisations that can't afford to fail.

From passport systems to crypto payment platforms, we have consistently delivered in complex, high-stakes environments since 2012.

2012
Founded
Over a decade of continuous delivery
9+
Expert Engineers
Senior specialists available on demand
3
Industries Served
Government, Fintech, Investment Banking

Client Work

We've delivered for some of the world's most demanding organisations.

Government

Home Office — Passport Exemplar

Fintech

Pixie Mobile App — Crypto Payments Platform

Observability

End-to-end distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Grafana

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes-native deployment pipelines for regulated environments

Streaming

Event-driven architecture with Kafka and Apache Flink at scale

Blog

Read our latest thinking at blackdoglabs.co/blog

How We Work

We embed directly into your teams, bringing senior expertise without the overhead. Flexible engagements that scale with your needs.

AI Driven Industry Operational Systems
Project Delivery
Architecture Review
Team Building
Technical Due Diligence

Ready to deploy with confidence?

Work with a team that has been delivering for the world's most demanding organisations.