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How we work · Forward Deployed Teams

Forward Deployed Teams

The people who shape the work with your leaders are still in the room when it ships.

Forward Deployed Strategists put your best ideas into real use and stay through delivery. Forward Deployed Engineers build what earned it in your environment, beside your engineers. The handover is agreed on day one.

Two roles, one team

Strategy and engineering, in the same room until it ships.

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Forward Deployed Strategists

They start with the business outcome and stay accountable for it.

  • Lead with your executives in the AI Value Accelerator
  • Run each idea as a measured experiment, with your owner making the call
  • Stay through delivery and lead adoption with the people who use the work
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Forward Deployed Engineers

They build what earned it, to production standard, beside your engineers.

  • Take proven ideas to production in your cloud and your tools
  • Ship with evaluation results and a controls record
  • Hand over the code, the evaluations, the controls and the patterns

One team, sized to the value chain, measured on your outcome.

In practice

How the team works

  • Lead with your executives

    Strategists start with the business outcome and stay with you from the AI Value Accelerator through delivery.

  • Measured experiments

    Each prototype is built to test ROI against a baseline agreed with your finance team, with a budget, a time box and a stop rule. Your owner makes the stop call.

  • Built in your environment

    Engineers take the prototype to production in your cloud and your tools, side by side with your engineers.

  • Evidence at every gate

    Every phase ends in something you keep. First a value brief, then an experiment readout, then evaluation results, a controls record and the first outcome readout. In the end, your teams run it themselves.

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Why it matters

The handoff is where a build drifts from the result.

When strategy hands off to engineering and steps away, the build drifts from the business result. Our strategists stay through delivery, so the outcome stays in view until it ships and the people who will use the work are ready for it.

Benefits

What changes for your teams

  • Capability, not a dependency

    Embedded alongside your people. The handover is agreed on day one, and your teams running the next value chain without us is the gate into Scale.

  • Done means a readout

    A use case is done when it is reported as realized, realized with feedback or retired, against a baseline agreed with your finance team, not when the technology works.

  • Senior by default

    Experienced strategists and engineers from the first session, sized to the value chain and measured on your outcome.

  • Your engineers can lead

    Your team leads the build. Ours coach, review and unblock, so capability stays with you.

From the work · Avanti Software

Documentation now ships with the code, and a second person approves every update before customers see it.

The problem
Help articles were assembled by hand and drifted away from the product with every release.
What we delivered
A Claude workflow inside the release pipeline that writes and checks each article as code ships.
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How we deliver

Strategists own the front of the work and stay through every stage. Engineers take it to production, in pods that grow as the work grows.

One AI-enabled product team

FDS
  • Product LeadOwns priority, ROI, and adoption and change.
  • AI ArchitectDiscovery, architecture and feasibility.
  • Quality ArchitectSets the quality bar and the evals.
FDE
  • AI Accelerated EngineerPilot to MVP in your cloud, with infrastructure and integration.
  • Data AI/MLData, pipelines, retrieval and models.
  • Quality EngineerBuilds and runs the evals.
  1. 01
    Strategists

    AI Value Accelerator

    Speak value. Your executives and value-chain owners agree the outcomes that matter most and a short list worth testing.

  2. 02
    Strategists and engineers

    Forward Deployed Strategists

    Launch and learn. Prototypes built to test ROI: outcome, owner, a baseline agreed with your finance team, budget, time box and stop rule agreed before the build.

  3. 03
    Engineers

    Forward Deployed Engineers

    Build what earned it. Engineers take what proved itself to production, with evaluation results and a controls record. Strategists stay through delivery and lead adoption. Every use case is reported as realized, realized with feedback or retired.

  4. 04
    Engineers

    Scale

    Scale what drives impact. Scale extends what works across more value chains. Your teams running the next value chain without us is the gate into Scale.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Something else on your mind? Ask us directly

  • We scope by value chain, our strategists stay through delivery, and every idea is reported as realized, realized with feedback or retired, against a baseline agreed with your finance team. The work is judged by the outcome it moves, not by the deliverable.

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