Bentley Systems

Advancing Infrastructure

2024

The premise

The origin story of Bentley Systems — the people who set out to advance infrastructure.

A cinematic origin documentary — "Advancing Infrastructure: The Bentley Systems Story." Told through the founders' own words and a meticulously recreated early era, the film traces how a small engineering-software idea grew into a company advancing the infrastructure the modern world runs on.

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The work

Think Less crafted a period origin film — founder interviews woven through a recreated early era of drafting tables, first-generation engineering computers, and the long nights that built a company.

From those first tools to the platforms behind today's infrastructure, the film holds to a single throughline: the drive to advance how the world is designed and built.

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