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TMBW

About TMBW

We build technology for the people technology forgot.

TMBW LLC stands for Technology Making a Better World. We know how a sentence like that sounds. We mean it anyway — it's the test we apply to every decision.

Our mission

The promise of AI was that powerful tools would reach everyone. In practice, the most capable systems have flowed first to the largest enterprises — the organizations that already had the most resources, the most staff, and the most leverage.

The school district with one IT person and two thousand students is still on her own. The small manufacturing shop is still patching switches at midnight. The non-profit office manager is still guessing why the WiFi keeps dropping.

TMBW exists to close that gap. Our work is to bring the same grade of operational intelligence the largest companies enjoy to the organizations the giants do not serve.

What we believe

  • Principle 01

    AI should recommend, not act unilaterally.

    On a network, the cost of a wrong move is real. NELDA always surfaces a recommendation. A human approves. Then she executes.

  • Principle 02

    Your data should stay yours.

    NELDA runs on-premise. Network telemetry, configurations, and logs do not leave the customer's environment. Privacy is structural, not promised.

  • Principle 03

    Plain language beats jargon.

    The people we serve are not vendors of their own networks; they are stewards of them. Our software speaks their language, not ours.

  • Principle 04

    Build for the long tail.

    Most organizations are not Fortune 500s. They deserve enterprise-grade tools at a price that respects their reality.

Founder

Tom Martinson

Founder & CEO, TMBW LLC

Tom founded TMBW LLC in late 2025 after more than two years developing NELDA — a virtual network admin built specifically for the small organizations and rural school districts that most enterprise tooling overlooks.

Based in the Seattle, WA area, Tom leads product, engineering, and the broader vision of bringing operational AI to the long tail of underserved networks.

A fuller bio is coming soon.

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