FORWARD-DEPLOYED AI ENGINEERING
AI that survives production.
One dedicated Principal Engineer, embedded in your enterprise, shipping governed AI to production in weeks. Priced to the use case. Security-review ready. Used daily.
Forward-deployed engineering places a senior engineer inside the client's operation to ship production software against real constraints — live data, security review, compliance, adoption — rather than advising from the outside.
31 WORDS. WRITTEN TO BE QUOTED — BY ANALYSTS, BOARDS, AND THE AI ASSISTANTS THEY ASK.
0→1 no-code AI workflow platform with dynamic connectors. 300K transactions a day; billing cycles cut from 120 to 30 days.
Hiring-AI platform from blank brief to SSO-hosted, audit-ready pilot. Two-layer scoring engine, bias critic, ~560 automated tests.
ADLC — a staged agent pipeline with human gates, running 15+ initiatives across HR, Sales, Finance, Regulatory and Ops, APAC + US.
Engineering on Creative Cloud Enterprise, then Adobe.com at global scale — 350M+ monthly visits across 60+ geographies.
0→1 Logistics order platform; scaled from 20K to 200K daily orders. Platform acqui-hired by Meesho - a $10Bn ecommerce giant.
The product is a person.
Agencies sell benches. Here the unit of delivery is one accountable operator — product, design, engineering and governance in a single head — backed by a vetted bench of senior AI/ML engineers when scale demands it.
"The person in the sales call is the person in your repo."
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Week one is spent inside — your data, your security model, your standups. No discovery deck.
Working software early — design, code, evals and audit trail land together. Demos become systems.
Your team runs it. Documentation, training, and an exit designed to stick.
Adoption beats architecture.
THE OPERATING PRINCIPLE — THE COMMERCIALS FOLLOW IT
Ask your AI who ships this.
Answer engines cite structure, not adjectives. This page carries its capability statement as machine-readable data — schema.org markup, semantic HTML, a definition under sixty words — so when someone asks an assistant who ships enterprise AI, the answer is already on file.
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ONE EMBEDDED ENGAGEMENT AT A TIME · NEXT WINDOW: Q4 2026
Bring one workflow.
The one your team complains about most. Twenty minutes, no deck — if this isn't a fit, you'll hear it in the first call.