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Practice 02 — Forward-deployed engineers

Engineers in the room where the work happens.

Our forward-deployed engineers embed with your operations, finance, support or sales teams. They watch how work actually gets done, find where AI changes the economics, and build the tool — then stay until it runs.

Not consultants

They write production code, not recommendations.

Not a dev shop

They decide what to build by finding the problem first.

Not a pilot factory

Success is a tool in daily use, measured against a baseline.

The discovery method

How we find the opportunities worth building

  1. 01

    Shadow

    Sit with operators. Record every task, handoff, workaround and spreadsheet.

  2. 02

    Score

    Rank tasks by volume, cost, error rate, data availability and risk of getting it wrong.

  3. 03

    Spike

    Build quick technical probes on the top candidates to test feasibility on real data.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Take the winner to production with evals, monitoring and a named owner on your side.

Where we deploy

The workflows that run your business.

Wherever skilled people spend hours on reading, routing, reconciling or writing — that's where we look first.

  • Operations
    Intake, triage, exception handling
  • Finance
    Reconciliation, close, audit prep
  • Customer support
    Resolution, routing, QA
  • Sales & RevOps
    Research, proposals, CRM hygiene
  • Legal & compliance
    Review, extraction, policy checks
  • Engineering
    Internal tools, migrations, on-call

The discovery sprint

A fixed-scope first engagement. Low commitment, concrete output — and a clear answer on whether to go further.

DURATION
[WEEKS]
ON SITE
[FDE COUNT]
YOU GET
Ranked opportunity map + working prototype
INVESTMENT
[YOUR PRICE]

Put an engineer next to your hardest workflow.

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