Then AI-augmented development offered that speed to every stack. The advantage moved. What stayed with us was the lesson: we'd already learned what speed costs when it isn't disciplined.
So we're putting more than a decade of software engineering to work on what comes after speed: more capacity, delivered faster, with the same discipline. We didn't change overnight; we adapted, and we're still adapting. Here's where that has taken us.
What we've built
A low-code consultancy, and still one. About 150 people, OutSystems first, Mendix later, with a community presence that sometimes got more attention than the company. We're proud of that and not walking away from it.
A decade inside factories taught us that speed without discipline creates legacy. The platforms gave us the speed. The discipline was always ours, and it was the real product. We just never put it on the business card.
How we're evolving
Three practices, OutSystems, Mendix and AI Engineering, on one shared base of standards, ways of working and career framework. The same engineers move between them, and the discipline travels with them.
Across all three, AI-augmented development means AI in the whole lifecycle, from analysis to operations, with an engineer accountable for every outcome. Same direction, different pace: in AI Engineering, AI already writes a large share of the code; on the platforms it covers analysis, testing, review and documentation today, and it's entering modelling as OutSystems and Mendix ship their own AI tooling. We're building the discipline now, so the tooling lands on teams that are ready for it.
Low-code doesn't leave. Right stack for each problem, same team, same discipline: a client never has to choose between a low-code partner and an AI-engineering one. We're both. Working with AI is part of every job at Bool, and one career framework across the three practices means nobody is locked to a stack for life.
What our clients can expect
The promise shifts from "faster" to "the right thing, built right, still maintainable in ten years". Everyone can speak faster now.
The conversation starts earlier, with Expert Services: AI Adoption & Strategy, for companies deciding how AI changes their delivery; Enablement, for teams that want to work this way themselves; and Audit & Assessment, because nobody should decide anything about a factory they can't see. Most new relationships now begin there, and with delivery alongside it takes a client from strategy through implementation and continuous evolution.
None of this asks a client to change anything. The repositioning is ours; what changes for you is what you can ask of us.
What we double down on
The people, the community roots, the obsession with delivery quality: our first client is still with us.
And the honesty about risk. AI-generated debt is the next version of the debt we wrote about last time (read here), and it arrives faster. Our audit practice applies to code written by an agent in 2026 as much as to a factory built in 2014.
Where to start
Speed has always mattered in software, and it always will. What's changing is what we can achieve with it. The question isn't which platform. It's whether your stack and your team are ready for what comes next.
Start with an assessment of where they stand. Then bring us your next challenge.
Find out how we can help at bool.pt.
