An engineering company that AI happened to.
Most companies selling AI today were founded after the models became easy to call. Bluefrog was not. We started in 1997 writing databases, business applications and early web systems for companies that needed software to do a specific job. By 2001 the work had moved into intelligent integration — systems that watched real data sources, decided something, and acted without a human in the loop. One of those was an early real-time mobile tornado alert system in Oklahoma: ingest live weather data, evaluate it against location, push an alert to a phone. That is an event-driven intelligence pipeline. We just didn't have a marketing word for it yet.
That is why our positioning is not "we added AI." Modern language models made a hard part easier — comprehension. Everything around comprehension is still integration engineering: authentication, rate limits, schema drift, idempotency, queues, retries, permissions, reconciliation and the unglamorous business rules that decide whether an automated action is correct. We had already been doing that work for two decades. See what we mean by Operational AI and how the integration work is actually structured.