Forward-deployed engineering
Engineers inside your environment, on a clock you set
Two ways to work with us, priced and scoped differently because they are different things. A sprint solves one named problem and ends. A residency stays through production and owns what happens there. Neither is a retainer for capacity.
6–8 weeks
Forward-Deployed Sprint
Fixed clock, one named problem
Senior engineers work inside your environment, not ours. Two weeks finding where the gap actually is, four weeks building, then your team takes ownership. The engagement ends on a date agreed before it starts.
- Fixed duration and fixed scope, agreed before we begin
- Built in your stack, your accounts, your constraints
- Ends in a handoff, not a dependency
Right when: A problem you can name, that has stayed unsolved through more than one attempt.
Ongoing
Embedded Residency
Retained, through go-live and past it
A senior team that stays. Where a sprint ends at handoff, a residency continues into production and owns what only surfaces there: model drift, inference cost that climbs quietly, the workflows nobody predicted. This is the shape our longest client relationships have taken.
- Same engineers throughout, not a rotating bench
- Post-launch observability and cost ownership
- Proven across 10+ year Fortune 500 partnerships
Right when: A system that has to keep working, where the hard part starts after launch.
How a sprint runs
- 1Discovery, on site
- 2Build, in your environment
- 3Handoff
- 1
Discovery, on site
Weeks 1–2We map your stack and find where the gap actually is. What a team reports is usually the symptom: slow dashboards are rarely a dashboard problem, they are a conversion problem wearing a dashboard costume. Fixing the symptom perfectly and missing the business outcome is a failed engagement that looks like a successful one.
- Your architecture, integrations and constraints, mapped
- The stated problem separated from the underlying one
- One target chosen: highest impact, cheapest to reach
- 2
Build, in your environment
Weeks 3–6Connectors, integrations and workflows built where they will run. We scope less than the window holds, on purpose: the first version will need changing, and reserving budget for that iteration is how the work actually lands. A plan that only succeeds if v1 is right is a plan that fails.
- Non-production first, always
- Human-in-the-loop boundaries set before automation, not after
- Guardrails and misuse modes documented as a deliverable
- 3
Handoff
Week 7+Your team is trained on what was built and takes ownership. The bar is not that the code is good, it is that the thing works, your team understands it, and it produces the outcome you paid for. Most clients never read the code.
- Your engineers run it without us
- Documentation covers the boundaries, not just the API
- A residency is an option here, never an assumption
We have no platform to defend.
Every large forward-deployed engineering organization launched in 2026 is funded by the platform it lands on. That funding is not a scandal, it is a structure, and it means none of them can give you a disinterested answer to the question you are actually asking: should this run on Azure, on Bedrock, on an open model, or should you not build it at all? We sell no cloud and no model, so we can tell you to stop.
- No license attached
- Our engagement fee is the whole commercial relationship. There is no platform revenue behind the recommendation.
- Your stack, not a migration
- We build where you already run. An engagement is not a route to moving you somewhere that suits us.
- "Do not build this" is an outcome
- The cheapest engagement we can run is the one that ends with a decision not to build. That answer is available to us.
Scope and price are set per engagement, against the problem and the access required. Tell us the problem
While others deliver consulting, we deliver working solutions.
Production-ready in weeks. Talk directly to the senior architects who will do the work.