BLEN, Inc.
BLEN is a small, AI-native software company that builds digital services for U.S. federal agencies and mission-driven organizations. It modernizes legacy systems, delivers accessible digital services, and puts AI agents and automation inside the systems agencies already run.
At a Glance
- U.S. federal agencies
- Federal health and veterans organizations
- Mission-driven organizations and nonprofits
- Government program and policy teams
- +2 more
AI Tools by BLEN, Inc.
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Federal Register MCP Server
MCP Server for US Federal Regulations
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Latest News
BLEN brings federal regulatory data to Google Cloud's Gemini for government services; its open-source Federal Register MCP connector searches Federal Register, eCFR, and regulations.gov in one pass.
BLEN named an OpenAI Select Partner and joined the OpenAI Partner Network.
BLEN delivered VA Assist, described as the VA's first AI pilot at the point of clinical care, using MCP and VistA RPC to provide sourced clinical summaries.
BLEN delivered VA GPT, a secure Azure/OpenAI retrieval-augmented knowledge assistant with citation tracking and offline-capable models.
Products & Services
Open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents search the Federal Register, eCFR, and regulations.gov in one pass, with source citations. It supports code-mode JavaScript SDK access, read-only government APIs, sandboxed execution, stdio, and remote Streamable HTTP deployment.
Generative AI product for the VA Clinical Decision Support platform. MCP makes VistA data AI-native; parallel agents gather clinical information and produce short sourced summaries, with PII filtering and existing VA authentication.
Secure VA knowledge assistant built on Azure and OpenAI, using retrieval-augmented generation, source citation tracking, offline-capable models, and VA-infrastructure integration.
Cloud-first fleet-management platform for GSA, built with AWS, GraphQL, Postgres, React, USWDS, microservices, and a DevSecOps pipeline.
Market Position
BLEN positions itself as a small, senior, AI-native federal software specialist rather than a large systems integrator: the same team designs, builds, and runs production systems, with emphasis on legacy modernization, accessibility, security/compliance, and moving AI from pilot to production. Its open-source MCP connectors and government-specific AI implementations differentiate it from general-purpose web agencies and larger federal IT consultancies.
Leadership
Founders
Ephrem M. Girma
BLEN co-founder and President; the company's official profile identifies him as a long-term federal technology leader and its Creative Director. BLEN's historical blog credits him as an author on the company's work.
Mike Endale
BLEN co-founder and Vice President; the company's capability statement identifies him as Co-founder & VP and its public contact for contracting. LinkedIn identifies his experience at BLEN and the company describes its leadership as having worked together for more than a decade.
Executive Team
Ephrem M. Girma
Co-founder & President
BLEN's co-founder and President; also identified by BLEN as its Creative Director and a leader of federal technology projects.
Mike Endale
Co-founder & Vice President
BLEN's co-founder and Vice President; capability-statement contact for contracting and spokesperson for the Federal Register MCP work.
Founding Story
BLEN says it started in 2004 as a small design shop in a basement. Its initial vision was to do practical design and technology work; it evolved into building and operating software for federal programs, with research, design, product, security, and engineering kept together in one small team.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Government and mission-driven-organization software delivery and consulting engagements, including digital-service design and engineering, cloud/DevSecOps, legacy modernization, AI/ML and automation, and custom MCP/data connectors. BLEN sells through direct awards and federal contracting vehicles including GSA MAS; it also open-sources tools it builds for agencies and offers briefings, demos, and scoped connector engagements.
Target Markets
- U.S. federal agencies
- Federal health and veterans organizations
- Mission-driven organizations and nonprofits
- Government program and policy teams
- Agency technology and digital-service leaders
- Federal contractors and teaming partners
- Federal agency digital-service modernization
- Making legacy federal data usable by AI agents without replacing mission-critical systems
- Clinical decision support and medical-record summarization
- Secure agency knowledge search and question answering
- Federal regulatory research across the Federal Register, eCFR, and regulations.gov
- Grant monitoring and program oversight
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- General Services Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. Department of Agriculture