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Forward-deployed engineering

We build it with your team.
Then we keep it running.

A forward-deployed team works inside your repositories, standups and release process. It builds the agent platform or AI product, sets up or strengthens the harness your engineers use with coding agents, then stays on monthly to run, evaluate and improve what it built.

How it works

Review. Build. Run.

Start with a review or go straight to a build. Either way, we stay on after launch to run what we built.

  1. 01 · Review

    Architecture & Harness Review

    Two to three weeks

    An independent read of your AI system or your team's agentic engineering workflow, ending in a prioritized plan.

  2. 02 · Build

    Forward-deployed build

    Initial three-month engagement

    A forward-deployed team embeds with yours and builds the agent platform, AI product or the systems behind it. Scope, milestones and acceptance criteria are agreed before work starts.

  3. 03 · Run

    Forward-deployed operations

    Monthly retainer

    After launch, we stay on to run the evaluations, keep the harness current as models change, respond to incidents and ship improvements.

The forward-deployed model

Inside your team, not across the table.

Embedded

Works in your rhythm.

Your repositories, your tickets, your standups. Decisions are made where your team already makes them, with nothing lost in a handoff between sales, product and delivery.

AI-native

Builds with a harness.

Agents implement bounded tasks. Engineers own the architecture, the review and the release. Your team inherits the harness along with the software.

The method
Accountable

Stays after launch.

Deployment is not the end of the engagement. Evaluations, cost tracking, incident response and model upgrades continue on a monthly retainer.

A good fit

Built for teams that need it shipped and kept running.

  • You have an agent or AI product to ship, and the roadmap can’t wait for a hiring cycle.
  • Your engineers use coding agents, and you want that work reviewable, mergeable and maintainable.
  • The system touches customer data, money or clinical workflows, so permissions, evaluations and audit trails matter.
  • You want it run and improved after launch, not just handed over.

Forward-deployed operations

A monthly retainer to run what we built.

Models, tools and coding agents change every month, and a live agent has to keep up. We keep repository context, evaluations and operating knowledge current as the system evolves, and keep shipping improvements.

Evaluations
Scheduled evaluation runs and regression checks when models, prompts and tools change.
Harness upkeep
Repository context, permissions and verification gates kept current as models and coding agents change.
Operations
Cost and latency tracking, incident response and recovery for the systems in scope.
Improvements
New capabilities, integrations and fixes as the product evolves.
Readout
A readout for leadership: what shipped, what the evaluations show and what comes next.

AI-Native SaaS / selected work

Agent Platform Engineering for Enterprise AI

The problem
Give AI agents a way to find, create and update a content platform's structured information.
What we built
Backend AI with Anthropic, OpenAI and Google models, 50+ MCP tools, content APIs and semantic search.
What it made possible
Agents that find information, act on it and power interactive experiences inside compatible AI clients, for a unicorn startup and Fortune 500 companies.
50+
MCP tools built

Backend AI, API and infrastructure engineering, from architecture through launch.

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Agent platform engineering

  1. Backend AIAnthropic, OpenAI and Google
  2. 50+ MCP tools builtDiscover, create and update content
  3. APIs and searchStructured content and semantic retrieval
  4. Platform infrastructureSupports agents and MCP Apps
The platform's agent capabilities, layer by layer.

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