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Forward Deployed teams

Forward Deployed Strategists (FDS) lead with your executives, own the outcome, and stay accountable until your leaders take the wheel. Strategists build prototypes to prove value before engineers take it to production. Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) build in your environment, side by side with your engineers, then hand it over.

One AI-enabled product team, embedded alongside your people and built to hand over.

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Key components

How the team works

  • Lead with your executives

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

  • Measured experiments

    FDS build ROI-driving prototypes, each measured against a control agreed before the build.

  • Built in your environment

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

  • Evidence at every gate

    Human approval points in the workflow, output traced to its source, and monitoring with named owners.

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Why it matters

Most consulting stops at a recommendation.

We stay through delivery, with Forward Deployed Strategists who lead and engineers who build, and every phase ends with results you can check against a baseline.

Benefits

What changes for your teams

  • 01

    Capability, not a dependency

    Embedded alongside your people, built to hand over.

  • 02

    Done means ROI

    A use case is done when its ROI is measured against a control, not when the technology works.

  • 03

    Senior by default

    Nimble by design, senior by default, partners in your outcome.

  • 04

    Your engineers can lead

    Your team owns 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 engage

How we deliver

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

See all four steps

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
    FDS

    AI Value Accelerator

    FDS lead the AI Value Accelerator, where your leaders choose the use cases worth building first.

  2. 02
    FDS + FDE

    Forward Deployed Strategists (FDS)

    FDS build ROI-driving prototypes as measured experiments: KPI and owner named, control agreed before the build.

  3. 03
    FDE

    Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE)

    FDE take the prototype to production, while FDS stay hands-on and report each KPI as realized, realized with feedback, or deprecated.

  4. 04
    FDE

    Scale

    Scale extends to multiple transformations, and the KPI readout informs the next step.

  1. 01AI Value AcceleratorChoose where AI pays
  2. 02FDSProve the value
  3. 03FDEGo to production
  4. 04ScaleScale and feed back
Questions

Frequently asked questions

Something else on your mind? Ask us directly

  • Most consulting stops at a recommendation. We stay through delivery, with Forward Deployed Strategists who lead and engineers who build, and every phase ends with results you can check against a baseline.

Get started

Put a team beside yours.

Tell us where you are and what you need. We will bring the right people.

Recommended first stepBook an AI Value Accelerator sessionYour leaders leave with a ranked heat map, a business case kit and a roadmap.Something else in mind?Talk to our teamTell us what you need. A CWX lead replies personally.

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