Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)

Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are experienced software engineers embedded directly within your organization to accelerate execution of your AI Enablement Roadmap. These aren't generalist contractors or short-term staff augments — our FDEs operate as strategic extensions of your team, building custom AI-driven solutions that align with your workflows, tools, and business priorities.

They bring deep fluency in AI-enabled development, AI toolchains, and agent implementation — helping your teams move faster from strategy to production. Whether it's integrating LLMs into existing systems, deploying AI agents across services, or building net-new AI-powered products, FDEs bring the technical depth and business context to ship meaningful outcomes.

Who It's Best For

This offering is designed for:

• Organizations who've completed AI Enablement Workshops or Roadmaps and are ready to move into build mode
• Teams with strong internal engineering or AI capabilities, but limited bandwidth to execute against aggressive timelines
• Leaders who want to build with expert partners — not hand off projects, but embed technical expertise where it matters most
• Enterprise product and platform teams focused on delivering high-value AI functionality into core systems and services

Approach We Take

We deploy senior engineers who bring:

• Deep product engineering experience across AI and traditional systems
• A collaborative mindset — working shoulder-to-shoulder with your teams, not siloed or outsourced
• The flexibility to work across buy, boost, and build scenarios — including integrating COTS tools, configuring open-source models, or engineering custom solutions
• A bias for delivery, with strong instincts for balancing experimentation and production-grade reliability

Every FDE starts by immersing in your roadmap, understanding your user context, and aligning with your business priorities — so they're not just writing code, they're making strategic decisions in lockstep with your team.

How It Works

1. Engagement Planning — We align on goals, key initiatives, and the skills required for success
2. Engineer Placement — We match one or more FDEs with your internal squads, based on technical scope and team dynamics
3. Onboarding & Integration — FDEs embed directly with your team rituals, tools, and sprint cadence
4. Delivery & Acceleration — FDEs take ownership of high-impact build work, unblock adoption hurdles, and accelerate agent deployment, AI feature development, and integration
5. Knowledge Transfer — We work transparently, documenting decisions, patterns, and tooling to build internal confidence and ensure sustainability post-engagement

What to Expect Working With Us

With Forward Deployed Engineers, you'll get:

• Immediate traction on your AI build roadmap — no need to recruit, upskill, or reallocate internal resources
• Engineers who don't just "get the tech" but understand how to translate it into working systems that deliver business results
• Embedded collaboration — daily iteration, shared delivery milestones, and full integration with your engineering culture
• Strategic continuity — FDEs who know your roadmap, understand your users, and move with purpose
• A multiplier effect on your team's velocity, learning, and ability to deploy AI meaningfully

We're not dropping in talent. We're embedding capability.