About Us

Brockmann & Company opened in 2006 as a market research consultancy. We built online questionnaires about how enterprises were adopting the emerging technologies of the day — email spam control, unified communications, video conferencing, instant messaging, the first mobile smartphone apps — and turned the results into sponsorable research reports that vendors put to work in their own marketing.

The Great Recession of 2008 was, paradoxically, our best year ever — and the one that unwound the model. Retainer-funded clients cut their marketing budgets, our single largest client filed Chapter 11, and the reports stopped paying the bills. So I did the practical thing and went and got a job.

But curiosity and a stubborn eye for detail don’t take direction well. In 2009 I began teaching myself to write software for the iPhone — iTunes U lectures and a stack of how-to books of the paint-by-numbers variety, the kind that show you how to build their app without ever quite teaching you how to build yours.

In 2010 Apple introduced the iPad, and I promptly broke a rule I’d kept for years — never buy the first release of anything — by buying one on arrival. I did my penance as soon as practical with an iPad 2, and the rule, suitably reinforced, has held ever since. The apps followed — and that second act is the Brockmann & Company you see today.

How we build

Today the work is iPhone, iPad, and Android software, built with a current toolkit: Swift, Flutter, and Kotlin for the apps; Google Firebase, AWS, and Render for the back end; and OpenAI, Grok, and Claude Code where a measure of machine intelligence earns its keep.