BWRP ENGINEERING
Enlarge your software
BWRP Engineering · Independent Technology Counsel
BWRP Engineering is the consulting practice of Bernard Pratz. The firm holds the conviction that most technology problems are decision problems wearing an engineering costume. We do not produce decks for their own sake, nor staff armies of analysts against your retainer.
The work is direct, the counsel is grounded, and the person reading your codebase is the same person sitting across from your board.
We carry both sides: the engineer who has shipped the system, and the executive who has owned the consequences.
Each engagement is scoped to the question in front of you, not to a fixed catalogue.
The role rarely comes with a manual, and almost never with a peer who has done it. We accompany technology leaders through the transition from building systems to building the organisation that builds them.
A strategic sounding board for the calls you cannot make out loud inside your own company. A confidential interlocutor who has built, scaled, exited, and shut down, and who will tell you when the plan is wrong before the market does.
Technical due diligence for investors who would rather know now than discover later. We examine the codebase, the architecture, the team, and the practices behind a stated valuation, then report in language a partner and a CTO can both act on.
When the argument can only be settled by running code, we write it. We build the prototype that resolves the technical question, validates the bet, or de-risks the investment, fast enough to inform the decision rather than survive it.
Sessions built from systems that shipped and decisions that were lived, not from slideware. We cover the craft, the judgement, and the uncomfortable middle where the two meet.
Early-stage companies rarely fail for lack of ambition. They fail for lack of a precise question. BWRP Engineering works with founders and investors at the idea stage to stress-test the business thesis, identify the single assumption that breaks everything, and design the shortest path to evidence of product-market fit.
Bernard Pratz has spent thirty years writing software and fifteen leading the teams that write it, including seven as a founding CTO. He has scaled engineering organisations to fifty people, taken a hardware-to-software company through to acquisition, rebuilt collapsed infrastructure from two hundred thousand to three million monthly users at three thousand requests per second, and owned a SaaS P&L end to end under ISO 27001 certification.
He has shipped, scaled, exited, and closed. All of it informs the counsel.
Engaged remote and on-site across Europe.
Describe the decision in front of you, and we will tell you, candidly, whether BWRP Engineering is the right instrument for it.