forward deployed engineer
The same forward-deployed model OpenAI and Anthropic sell to the Fortune 500, at a price a normal company can actually pay. One builder in your Slack, in your standups, shipping the agents and automations your business needs.
what you get
You get one AI engineer embedded inside your team. Not a strategy deck, not a discovery phase that never ends. Someone who sits in your Slack, joins your standups, and ships real AI into your stack week over week.
They learn your systems the way a new hire would, then start moving faster than one. The work goes to production and stays there. You watch it land in the same tools your team already opens every day.
what an embed ships
The agent that reads your inbox, drafts against your rules, and escalates the edge cases. Scoped to how your business runs, not a generic template dropped on top of it.
Your CRM, your billing, your support desk, your warehouse. The FDE wires them together so data moves on its own instead of getting carried between tabs by a person.
The dashboard, the admin panel, the one-off script that saves an afternoon. The small software your team keeps wishing existed gets built and shipped while it still matters.
Cleaning, moving, and reshaping the data your models and reports depend on. The unglamorous plumbing that everything else quietly breaks without.
Picking the right model, prompting it, evaluating it, and putting it where the work happens. Not a demo in a notebook. Something your team uses on Monday.
The proof of concept that has been stuck for months gets tested, hardened, and shipped. The FDE lives on the production side, so it actually goes live.
how the embed works
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The free audit picks the first thing worth building. One workflow, clearly defined, with an honest read on what it takes and what it frees up.
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The FDE gets into your stack, builds the first workflow, and puts it in production inside roughly two weeks. You see real output live before you have committed to anything long.
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From there it is week over week. New agents, new integrations, new tools, shipped on a steady rhythm inside your standups. Scope grows as fast as your team wants it to.
A contractor takes a spec and disappears until it is done. An FDE lives in your Slack and your standups, learns your systems, and ships into production week over week. Closer to a senior hire than a vendor, without the recruiting cycle or the payroll commitment.
The embed runs from $5,000/month. We don't publish a fixed menu because the work is scoped to your stack and your priorities. See the full ladder at /pricing, and you'll have exact numbers in writing after the free audit, before you spend a dollar.
Yes. Every bit of it. Code, integrations, docs, all of it lives in your systems and stays yours. Cancel the embed and you walk away with everything we shipped, not a black box you can't touch.
Plenty of our embeds sit inside teams with no engineers at all. The FDE works with whoever owns the process, ships into your existing tools, and hands over docs a non-engineer can follow. You do not need to staff up to work with one.
The free audit finds the first workflow worth shipping and what an embedded engineer would take off your plate. All before you spend a dollar.
We take on companies ready to invest $5,000+/month in doing this properly.
