BearTech
tees valley
software, data and AI since 2017
cyber essentials certified
company no. 15284470
about

An agile team that builds the whole thing

BearTech started at a family coffee table in Stockton-on-Tees, founded in 2023 by people who had already spent years putting computer vision into warehouses, satellites and production lines, and who wanted to bring that calibre of work to clients of every size, from lean startups to large, established organisations.

We execute every project with a dedicated, in-house engineering team, with no outsourcing and no handoffs. Clients choose us for the speed, direct communication and end-to-end accountability that come with total internal delivery.

What we are, underneath the job titles, is problem solvers. Software development, data engineering, data science and AI are the disciplines we happen to be good at, and they are useful precisely because most real problems need more than one of them. A reporting problem is usually a data engineering problem wearing a spreadsheet. An AI problem is usually a data problem that nobody has done the boring part of yet.

So we start every project by asking why. Not to be difficult, but because the answer is normally different from the brief, and building the briefed thing when the why points elsewhere is the most expensive mistake in software.

We care about getting more people into STEM, and about the fact that a business in the Tees Valley can build things that stand up anywhere. Our aim is simple: build software, data and AI that earns its place. Production systems that solve the real problem, owned end to end by the people who built them.

leadership
Rob Boville
Co-Founder & COO
A technology entrepreneur with over a decade building and scaling AI platforms across legal, healthcare and the public sector. He leads product strategy, AI architecture and secure cloud delivery for clients including NASA, BP and St John Ambulance.
Ali Boville
Co-Founder & CEO
Two decades of strategic leadership across fast-growth technology ventures and FTSE-listed businesses, including senior transformation roles at Drax, Tarmac and Vianet. A Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, she leads BearTech's growth, governance and commercial strategy.
founded
2023
based
Stockton-on-Tees
company no.
15284470
certification
Cyber Essentials
subcontractors
none
how we're built

A full in-house team with no subcontractors, building since 2017 and spanning the disciplines most real problems need.

Software engineering
Data engineering
Data science
Machine learning & computer vision
AI & automation
Product & delivery
delivered across
Space
Manufacturing
Legal
Health
Logistics
Food
how we work

How we work matters as much as what we build.

Straight talking
Open and direct, with no hidden agendas, including when the honest answer is “don’t build this.”
Respect
Different backgrounds make better work. We listen, stay curious, and assume the person across the table knows things we don’t.
Trust
Earned on day one and kept by doing what we said we’d do. We’re judged on outcomes, not hours or oversight.
Challenge
We take on the problems other people flinch at, and keep the work sustainable, and genuinely enjoyable, while we do it.