Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

An Embedded Engagement Model

Put senior AI expertise inside your team, not alongside it.

Some AI work can't be handed off. It needs someone who understands your systems, sits in your standups, and builds alongside the people who'll own the result. We embed a hands-on AI architect in your organization to plan and deliver systems that produce measurable return — and to leave your team more capable than they were.

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The Pattern We See

The strategy deck arrives. The system doesn't.

Plenty of organizations have paid for AI strategy and have little running to show for it. The recommendations were reasonable; what was missing was someone technical enough to build them and close enough to the business to adapt when the first approach didn't survive contact with the actual data. Advisory engagements end at the handoff. That handoff is precisely where most enterprise AI work stalls.

How It Works

Embedded, hands-on, accountable to outcomes.

Integrate with your team

Your tools, your standups, your priorities. Working inside your environment rather than reporting on it from outside is what makes the difference between advice and delivery.

Find what's actually worth building

Proximity surfaces opportunities a scoped engagement misses: the process nobody mentioned, the data that turned out to be usable, the constraint that changes the approach.

Build it

Working systems, not recommendations. Production-grade from the start, integrated with what you already run, and built to the standards your environment requires.

Transfer the capability

Your team should be able to operate, extend, and reason about what gets built. An engagement that leaves behind a system nobody internally understands has created a dependency, not a capability.

Why This Approach

Delivery, not advice

The engagement is measured by what's running at the end of it, not by what was recommended at the start.

Context you can't brief into a project

Embedded work surfaces the constraints and opportunities that never make it into a scope document.

Senior throughout

Direct access to the person doing the work. No account layer, no junior handoff, no ramp-up on the second engineer.

Where this fits

This is a deliberate constraint on scale.

Embedded engagements are senior-led and limited in number, which means we take on few of them at once. That’s the tradeoff: you get depth and continuity rather than a staffed team that ramps up and rotates. For work that needs many hands rather than deep context, a conventional project structure is usually the better fit, and we’ll say so.

Nearly 20 years delivering mission-critical enterprise systems · Graduate AI research at Stanford · Partnerships with Anthropic, Google Cloud, and AWS

Expertise inside the building.

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