Bridge Software

About Bridge

A software company that finishes what it starts.

Founded in 2011, building with AI since 2022. Led by two engineers who started building in 1995 and still build today.

We started building with AI in December 2022, a month after ChatGPT launched, inside production software handling real credit applications.

That software was our own consumer-finance platform, which merchants and finance partners depended on every day. There was no room for demos that fell apart on contact with real data. Three years on, every project we ship is built with AI, and the lessons from those years are what we bring to yours: where AI is dependable, where it is not yet, and how to put it inside a business without betting the business on it.

Before that, Bridge was the shop companies called when a project had gone wrong. We took over unfinished builds, got them working, and then kept building. That habit of inheriting someone else's decisions and making them hold is still how we work.

  1. Bridge Software founded. Custom web development, with a specialty in rescuing and finishing projects that had stalled.

  2. Shifted focus to APIs: custom API integrations between clients' systems, and APIs other companies build on.

  3. Launched the Bridge consumer-finance platform, our first work with finance partners, integrated with Synchrony, Wells Fargo, Acima, Progressive Leasing, and others.

  4. Began building with AI in production. The platform's merchant and finance-partner portals shipped the following month.

  5. AI agents, workflow automation, integrations, and custom software for businesses that want results they can measure.

Why Bridge

Built to be finished, not just started.

Proven in production
We started building with AI in December 2022 inside our own consumer-finance platform, where real credit applications left no room for demos that break. Three years on, every project we ship is built with AI, and we know where it is dependable and where it is not yet.
A small team, close to the work
You get one point of contact who knows your project, and the people building it are never more than a call away. The founders are still hands on and review every project that ships.
Agreed scope, agreed price, written down
A written scope with a price and a delivery date before any work starts. If it changes, it changes in writing.
We finish what others left unfinished
Bridge made its name taking over projects other teams abandoned and getting them shipped. We still build that way.

Leadership

Founders who still build.

Bridge is led by two engineers who have been shipping software for three decades and still review every project that goes out the door.

Robert Clasby

CEO and co-founder

Robert has spent 31 years in the internet industry. He began as one of the web's first webmasters in 1995, became an early pioneer in website hosting at TIAC, trained IT staff at Harvard Business School, and holds a certificate in Advanced Internet E-Commerce from MIT.

Mark Jones

CTO and co-founder

Mark has more than 30 years in business analysis and solution delivery, much of it in financial services, including leadership roles as VP of R&D and VP of IT at Rogue Wave Software. He turns complicated requirements into systems that hold up.