About
Three 4D developers on two continents who have, between them, been building business systems on the 4D platform since 1986 — and who formed a company so that the systems we build, and the ones we inherit, never again depend on a single person.
The short answer
Everything 4D LLC is a consulting partnership founded in May 2025 by Kirk Brooks, J. Douglas Cryer, and Angel I. Vazquez. We design, build, modernize, and maintain business applications on 4D — the database platform that runs everything from two-person shops to one of the largest single installations in the world, a multibillion-dollar company whose entire operation runs on it.
We are a 4D Silver Partner. We work from San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Bedford, England, serving clients across the United States and the United Kingdom, remotely or on site.
What makes us different is not the technology. It's the structure. Each of us could work alone — two of us did, for decades. We chose not to.
Why we exist
4D has always attracted independent developers. The toolbox let one person build useful, sometimes sophisticated, bespoke systems at prices a small business could afford — and because a well-written 4D application is robust, those systems tend to run for a very long time. Many are still in daily use twenty or thirty years after they were written.
That longevity is a strength, right up until the developer is gone. We have taken calls from business owners whose long-time developer had retired or died, taking the source code with them. In one case the owner didn't know her application carried a hard-coded expiration date until the server refused to start. We recovered most of her data; nothing could recover the working system she depended on.
A business-critical system should not have a single point of failure — and that includes the people who maintain it.
So we built the firm around that principle. Our partners span two generations. Every engagement is known to more than one of us. We document as we go, keep code in version control the client can access, and plan the hand-off from the first day — because a hand-off is eventually certain, and the only question is whether it's orderly.
The 4D community knows us: through decades of client work in the US and UK, through the 4D Partner Network, and through the weekly 4D Happy Hour that Kirk hosted from 2020 to 2026, where developers, project managers, and executives whose businesses rely on 4D gathered to solve real problems in the open.
What we believe
Every system we touch should end up in a documented, portable, testable state that belongs to you. Our value is in the work, not in being the only ones who can do it. Clients stay with us because of trust, not lock-in.
Nobody on our team is irreplaceable, and we built it that way on purpose. Shared knowledge, shared repositories, and a partnership that outlasts any one partner.
The people who use business systems live in them eight hours a day. Dense, keyboard-first, master-detail interfaces that show relationships instead of hiding them behind clicks — that discipline is worth carrying into modern stacks, not losing in translation.
4D lets us build quickly for small operations and scale without switching tools. It is not the only tool in the shed. We integrate with accounting platforms, CAD, e-commerce hosts, web services, and whatever else your business already runs on.
How we got here
Doug begins building information-rich business applications in England — much of the next four decades spent in 4D.
Kirk writes his first 4D database: an inventory system for a fine-art gallery that insisted on a Macintosh. Restaurant management, payroll, and wine-list systems follow.
Doug founds Telekinetix Limited in Bedford — IT consultancy and custom database development. Several of its earliest client systems are still in production.
Kirk joins The Energy House as IT Manager and writes Subcontractor Manager, the 4D system that runs bidding, scheduling, warehousing, purchasing, billing, and commissions for the company for the next seventeen years.
Doug becomes Head of Development at i.LEVEL Software, a leading ERP provider for the clothing industry — leading integrations with Zalando, John Lewis, Next, and Debenhams, and building its EPOS solution.
Kirk launches 4D Happy Hour, a weekly online meetup for the 4D community.
Angel, newly graduated with a Master's in Computer Science, joins the engineering staff of one of the world's largest 4D installations.
Kirk and Angel meet on a consulting engagement there. Angel moves to independent consulting.
Everything 4D LLC is founded in San Francisco by all three. 4D Silver Partner, 2026.
The partners
Co-founder
Kirk has been building 4D databases since 1988 — when Macs still had a handle on top. For most of that time he was not a full-time developer. He was a controller, a restaurant general manager, a vice president of a custom home builder, and for seventeen years the IT Manager of a Northern California fireplace company with forty employees, three showrooms, and two warehouses. In each role he wrote the 4D systems the business ran on, and then ran the business on them.
That operator's perspective shapes how he works today: he has been the customer. Since 2016 he has consulted full-time on 4D, for clients ranging from individuals to universities and museums, and including one of the largest 4D installations in the world. His recent focus is modernizing legacy 4D applications — the shift to ORDA and object-oriented 4D, and AI-assisted development workflows for brownfield code.
From 2020 to 2026 Kirk hosted 4D Happy Hour, a weekly Zoom gathering of the 4D community, which is how much of that community knows him.
Co-founder · Director, Telekinetix Limited
Doug has been building dense, information-rich business applications for four decades, much of that time in 4D. He started in telemarketing technology in the mid-1980s, managing database and IT implementation for client projects, and in 1995 founded Telekinetix Limited, a Bedford-based IT consultancy and 4D Partner that he has directed ever since.
Telekinetix's client relationships are measured in decades: Waltons Direct has run on a system Doug built since 1999. Since 2009 he has also served as Head of Development at i.LEVEL Software, a leading ERP provider for the clothing industry, leading integration projects with retailers including Zalando, John Lewis & Partners, Next, and Debenhams, and designing and installing its EPOS solution.
Doug brings to E4D the discipline of running a software business for thirty years — budgets, timelines, support teams, and systems that are still thriving after twenty-five years of updates. His current interest is carrying what 4D developers already know about line-of-business design into modern web and mobile stacks.
Co-founder
Angel holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from California State University San Marcos, where he also taught the computer architecture lab — machine and assembly language, digital logic, and circuit design. His background spans 4D, C++, C, Python, SQL, embedded systems, and machine learning.
In 2021 he joined the software engineering staff of one of the largest 4D installations in the world, a multibillion-dollar company that runs its website, warehouse, shipping, and reporting on the platform. That is where he met Kirk, on a consulting engagement, and where he learned what 4D looks like at scale. He moved to independent 4D consulting in 2024 and co-founded E4D the following year.
Angel represents the next generation of the partnership — by design. He is the reason a client who signs with E4D today can expect the firm to still be here in twenty years.
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