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| Legal name | Boswell Digital Solutions LLC |
|---|---|
| Location | Lexington, Kentucky |
| What we do | Independent software engineering and systems design company |
| Founder | Charles Boswell, U.S. Navy veteran |
| Ownership | Service-disabled veteran-owned small business |
| Areas of work | Governance-first software systems, local-first applications, AuthorForge, and systems engineering services |
| Website | bds-digitalsolutions.com |
| Media email | [email protected] |
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Boswell Digital Solutions LLC is an independent software engineering and systems design company in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded by Charles Boswell, BDS builds governance-first software: humans define intent, systems enforce it, and evidence proves it. Its products include AuthorForge, a local-first authoring system that is in development.
Boswell Digital Solutions LLC (BDS) is an independent software engineering and systems design company based in Lexington, Kentucky. Founder Charles Boswell started the company after careers in wildlife biology, forestry, and wildland fire operations, where processes must be clear and decisions must be accountable.
BDS designs governance-first software systems built for clarity, authority, and long-term reliability. Its work centers on deterministic workflows, explicit state transitions, and enforceable boundaries. BDS treats AI as a tool, not an authority, and keeps final decisions with the human operator.
BDS develops AuthorForge, a local-first authoring system for independent authors and small publishers, which is in development. The company also offers architecture, application, website, and technical advisory services.
Boswell Digital Solutions LLC (BDS) is an independent software engineering and systems design company based in Lexington, Kentucky. Charles Boswell founded the company to build software systems that can be trusted, not merely demonstrated.
Boswell served in the U.S. Navy from 1993 to 1997. Before he wrote software, he spent 2002 to 2020 in public service: a year with the Kentucky Division of Air Quality, six years as a Forest Ranger Technician III with the Kentucky Division of Forestry, a year in forestry as a Department of the Army civilian at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and ten years as a Wildlife Biology Technician with the United States Forest Service. Over sixteen years of wildland fire operations, he led prescribed fire work and qualified as a Fire Incident Commander. Those environments taught a lesson that shapes the company today: systems must work under pressure, processes must be clear, and decisions must be accountable.
BDS operates on a simple principle: humans define intent, systems enforce it, and evidence proves it. Its systems are designed around deterministic workflows, explicit state transitions, enforceable boundaries, transparent behavior, and long-term maintainability. AI is treated as a tool, not an authority, and authority remains with the human operator.
The company's flagship product, AuthorForge, is a local-first authoring system for independent authors and small publishing companies. It is designed to bring drafting, lore, revision, cover preparation, and distributor-ready export into one governed workflow. AuthorForge is in development.
BDS also provides systems engineering services, including architecture, applications, websites, and technical advisory work. The company remains independent and intentionally structured, prioritizing engineering discipline over rapid expansion.
Charles Boswell is the founder of Boswell Digital Solutions in Lexington, Kentucky. A U.S. Navy veteran, he came to software engineering after careers in wildlife biology, forestry, and wildland fire operations.
Charles Boswell founded Boswell Digital Solutions in Lexington, Kentucky. His career includes service in the U.S. Navy from 1993 to 1997 and public service from 2002 to 2020 with the Kentucky Division of Air Quality, the Kentucky Division of Forestry, Fort Campbell forestry as a Department of the Army civilian, and ten years as a Wildlife Biology Technician with the United States Forest Service, including sixteen years of wildland fire operations and prescribed fire leadership. He now builds governance-first software and AI-assisted systems in which authority remains with the human operator. He is an author himself and started AuthorForge to replace the disconnected tools that publishing a book required.
Status: in development. No public release of AuthorForge has been published yet. Product details below describe its intended design.
In one sentence: AuthorForge is a local-first authoring system that brings drafting, lore, revision, cover preparation, and distributor-ready export into one governed workflow for independent authors and small publishing companies.
Many authors publish through a stack of separate tools: one for drafting, another for lore, another for covers, and manual fixes after a distributor rejects a file. Each tool solves one part of the work. Publishing is a systems problem, so changes in one part affect the others.
“I built AuthorForge because I’m an author. And I was tired of stitching together half-connected tools just to publish a single book.”
— Charles Boswell, founder
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