Engineers who sit with your team and ship.
Our Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) embed directly with your business and technical teams — on-site or remote — to turn ambiguous, high-priority problems into working AI and data solutions in production, in weeks rather than quarters.
Overview
An FDE is part consultant, part software engineer. They learn your workflows first-hand, prototype quickly with real users, integrate with your existing systems and data, and harden what works into production-grade software your teams can own.
Engagements are outcome-driven and time-boxed. We pair FDEs with our offshore delivery centre in Hyderabad for scale, and we transfer knowledge throughout so your organization keeps the capability when we step back.
What you get with us.
Embedded with your team
Engineers who work in your environment, tools and rituals.
Rapid prototyping
Working software in front of real users within days, not slide decks.
Systems integration
Connecting AI to your data platforms, ERPs, CRMs and legacy systems.
Production hardening
Security, testing, monitoring and scale for solutions that last.
Onshore + offshore
Forward-deployed leads backed by our Hyderabad delivery centre.
Knowledge transfer
Documentation, pairing and handover so your team owns the result.
How an FDE engagement runs
- Week 1: embed, map the workflow, define success metrics
- Weeks 2–3: prototype with real users and data
- Weeks 4–8: integrate, harden and deploy to production
- Ongoing: measure, iterate, then hand over or scale
A clear path, phase by phase.
A proven, phased approach. Timings are typical and depend on your scope, data and systems.
Embed
FDEs join your team, shadow users and agree success metrics.
Prototype
A working version in front of real users with real data.
Harden
Integrate, secure, test and deploy to production.
Hand over or scale
Transfer ownership with documentation and pairing — or extend to more teams.
Ways to work with us on Forward Deployed Engineering.
FDE Sprint
One high-priority problem solved in production.
- 1–2 senior forward deployed engineers
- Outcome-based scope
- Production deployment
- Knowledge transfer
FDE Pod
Embedded lead backed by an offshore delivery team.
- Onshore FDE lead
- Hyderabad build & test team
- Continuous delivery
- Cost-effective scale
FDE + Platform
Ship use cases while building reusable foundations.
- Use-case delivery
- Shared AI/data platform components
- Engineering standards
- Team enablement
Where Forward Deployed Engineering delivers value.
AI agents in production
Take agent prototypes to reliable, secure production.
Data integration
Connect messy legacy data to modern AI and analytics.
Internal tools
Operational apps that remove manual work fast.
Legacy modernisation
Modernise critical systems with AI-assisted engineering.
Analytics applications
Decision tools built with the people who use them.
Turnaround projects
Rescue stalled AI or data initiatives.
The stack we work with.
Vendor-neutral: we choose tools to fit your environment.
AI & data
Engineering
Delivery
Forward Deployed Engineering: common questions
What does a forward deployed engineer do?
An FDE embeds with your team to understand the real problem, builds and iterates on a solution with users, integrates it with your systems and takes it into production.
How is FDE different from hiring contractors?
Contractors usually add capacity to a defined plan. FDEs own an outcome: they shape the problem with you, decide what to build and are measured on the result in production.
Can FDEs work remotely?
Yes. Engagements can be on-site, remote or hybrid, and our pods combine client-facing engineers with our Hyderabad delivery centre.
Who owns the code and IP?
Ownership is set in the contract for each engagement; we agree it up front with you.
Forward Deployed Engineering in practice
Rescuing a stalled GenAI pilot with forward deployed engineers
How an FDE pod could take an insurer’s promising-but-stuck claims summarisation pilot into production in weeks.
Read moreAn embedded FDE team builds a maintenance agent with technicians
How forward deployed engineers could work on the plant floor to build an AI assistant grounded in manuals, sensor data and past work orders.
Read moreAn FDE-built exception-management tool for a logistics control tower
How FDEs could turn fragmented tracking data into a single tool that helps dispatchers resolve shipment exceptions faster.
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