Fractional Forward Deployed Engineering

Senior AI engineers, embedded in your team.

We join your engineering team and ship production AI — agents, retrieval pipelines, internal automations. No full-time hire. No vendor lock-in.

Start
This week, not in six months
Engagement
10 hrs / week up to full-time
Code
Lives in your GitHub or GitLab
Infrastructure
Your cloud, or on-prem
Models
Any — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, open-weight

01Why forward deployed

We don't leave you with a slide deck.

Most AI consulting ends with a strategy document and an invoice. Ours ends with code in production and a team that knows how to maintain it.

What you usually get

  • A strategy deck your developers have to figure out how to build
  • A recommendation to buy one vendor's platform
  • Junior staff billed at senior rates

What you get from us

  • Working code, reviewed and merged into your repo every sprint
  • Agents and pipelines built around your workflows and your data
  • Senior engineers who train your team as they build

02What we build

Three things, done properly.

Every engagement is scoped to your problem, but the work almost always lands in one of these areas.

01

Agents and automations

Multi-step agents that take over the work your team does by hand — document processing, support triage, internal tooling.

  • Agents that call your tools and your data (via MCP)
  • Search that finds the right answer in your own documents
  • Guardrails and tests so output stays reliable over time
02

Model routing that cuts your bill

Each request goes to the cheapest model that can handle it, with automatic fallback. Clients cut API spend by up to 60%.

  • Route across Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and open-weight models
  • Swap models without rewriting application code
  • Fall back on latency, cost, or provider outage
03

Private deployment. Your IP.

Runs in your AWS, GCP, or Azure account — or fully on-prem. You own every line of code and every byte of data.

  • Nothing you send is used to train anyone's model
  • Air-gapped on-prem option for regulated environments
  • Built to pass SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR audits

03How an engagement runs

Audit, prototype, ship.

Most teams see working code inside a month.

  1. 01Audit

    Weeks 1–2

    We map the workflow, benchmark models against your data, and tell you honestly whether it's worth building.

    • Workflow map and bottlenecks
    • Model shortlist with cost projection
    • Architecture spec and risk register
  2. 02Prototype

    Weeks 2–4

    A working version against real data, so you can judge it before committing further budget.

    • Functional agent or pipeline prototype
    • Connectors to your tools and data
    • Evaluation baseline you can measure against
  3. 03Production

    Weeks 4–8+

    Hardened, deployed in your environment, with your team trained to run it.

    • Deployed to your cloud or on-prem
    • Regression tests and guardrails in CI
    • Ongoing sprints alongside your team

04Engagement models

Pick the level of involvement.

Every tier is scoped on the call. Scale up or down as the work changes.

Advisory

10–15 hrs / week

Best for
Teams with capable developers who need senior direction.
Includes
  • Weekly architecture review
  • Model and prompt guidance
  • PR reviews for your team
  • Direct escalation via Slack or Teams
Book a Scoping Call

Embedded Builder

Most common

20–25 hrs / week

Best for
Teams that need code shipped, not just reviewed.
Includes
  • Everything in Advisory
  • An engineer committing to your repo each sprint
  • Custom agents and retrieval pipelines
  • Evaluation pipelines wired into CI
Book a Scoping Call

Dedicated Architect

Full-time

Best for
Enterprise systems with custom infrastructure or compliance requirements.
Includes
  • Everything in Embedded Builder
  • On-prem or private cloud deployment
  • Custom routing, caching, and fine-tuning
  • Direct line to your CTO or VP Engineering
Book a Scoping Call

05Next step

Ready to scope it?

A 30-minute call with our engineering lead. We'll tell you what's feasible, what it costs, and how fast it ships.

Book a Scoping Call
Based in
Toronto, Canada. Working with teams worldwide.