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The forward deployed model.

Senior engineers who work where your problem lives, own a defined mission, ship it to production, and leave your team able to run it.

01 — What forward deployed means

Three commitments.

01
In your environment

We work in your accounts, your repositories and your tools, alongside your people. No black-box delivery.

02
Owning a mission

Every engagement has a defined outcome. We are accountable for shipping it, not for hours billed.

03
Leaving you stronger

Handover is planned from day one, so your team owns what we built when we leave.

02 — Engagement models

Four ways to work with us.

Embedded pod

One to four engineers join your team for a defined mission, working in your stack and rituals.

Best for: Shipping a specific system to production.
Fractional data and AI leadership

A senior leader who sets direction and stays hands-on with delivery.

Best for: Teams without a senior data or AI leader yet.
Fixed-scope sprint

A time-boxed assessment or build, such as AI readiness, a data platform review or an experimentation audit.

Best for: Getting a clear plan before committing.
Team enablement

Hiring support, coaching, handover and documentation for the team that will own the work.

Best for: Building lasting in-house capability.

03 — Team structure

A small senior pod, paired with your people.

  • Engagement lead
    Accountable for the mission, the architecture and stakeholder alignment. Writes code too.
  • Engineers
    Senior data and AI engineers who build, test and ship inside your stack.
  • Your counterparts
    A product owner and the engineers who will run the system after handover.

04 — Handover

Knowledge transfer is part of the work.

  • Pairing with your engineers from the first week
  • Architecture decision records and runbooks
  • Code in your repositories, reviewed by your team
  • Recorded walkthroughs of every major component
  • A planned exit, agreed at the start

05 — Security and data handling

Your data stays under your controls.

  • We work in your accounts under your identity and access controls
  • Least-privilege access, removed at the end of the engagement
  • Client data does not leave your environment
  • We follow your security review and change processes
  • Privacy and regulatory requirements, such as GDPR and CCPA, are designed in

06 — Industries

Problems we recognise across sectors.

  • Marketplaces and retail
  • B2B SaaS
  • Fintech and lending
  • Life sciences and healthcare marketing
  • Mobility and autonomy
  • Public sector and nonprofit
  • M&A and deal data

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Tell us what you are trying to ship.

A 30 minute call with us. We will tell you plainly whether we can help.

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