Engineer · Forward-deployed
Every engagement embeds a squad of forward-deployed engineers in your Slack, your repo, your standups, and on-site when it matters. Not a vendor taking requirements over a call. Part of the flat monthly rate, not a line item.
Where this sits
Govern, across all threeForward-deployed engineering is how the Engineer stage is delivered: the squad that builds your system works inside your team while it does.
Teams we’ve built for
The alternative
Most firms learn your business through a document. Each of these is a way that goes wrong, and it hurts most with AI, where the edge cases are the work.
The spec gets written by someone who sat through a demo and read by someone who has never opened your system. Everything lost in that gap shows up later as rework.
The exception that happens twice a month is the one that breaks the system. Nobody writes it down, because everyone who deals with it thinks it is obvious.
Strategy team to build team to ops team. Each handoff carries the decision but not the reason behind it, so the next team relitigates it or quietly reverses it.
A month of work in a direction you would have corrected on day two, if anyone had been close enough to the work to ask you.
How it runs
In your tools
The engineers work remotely but live where your work happens: the same channels, the same pull requests, the same daily calls. They see the work as it happens rather than as it was described to them.
On-site
Discovery, workshops, and cutover. Not permanently on-site, but physically there for the moments where watching someone do the job tells you more than any amount of asking about it.
Commercials
No day rate, no separate invoice, no clock to watch. The flat monthly rate covers the whole embedded squad, which is the only arrangement where we have no reason to make the embedding shorter or smaller.
What it buys
These are consequences of sitting close to the work, not measured averages across engagements.
Not staff augmentation
A contractor takes your tickets and works to your spec. We embed a squad: the same engineers who prove the workflow, wire AI into your systems, ground it in your context, and run it in production. Not one person relaying requirements to a team elsewhere. The people in your standup are the people building it, on one flat rate.
It’s also why we don’t sell hours. Embedded engineers who find a faster path cost a time-and-materials firm revenue. They cost us nothing, which is the only way the arrangement stays honest.
Everything we engineerBring the workflow you’d struggle to write a spec for. That’s where engineers sitting next to your team are worth the most, and it’s a 30-minute call to find out.