Forward-deployed teams

A contractor takes a ticket. A forward-deployed engineer takes the problem. They sit with the people who have it, work out what is actually wrong, and build the fix. You are buying judgment about what to build, not hours against a specification someone else already wrote.

Days, not months. Our engineers average fifteen years of experience and have worked in unfamiliar enterprise codebases many times. The two-to-three week discovery exists so that ramp happens against a scoped piece of real work rather than as unbilled onboarding.

Yes. Continuity is the point. The team assigned to your project stays on your project and learns your systems, your data and your business context. We do not rotate people between accounts to balance utilisation.

Either, and the choice is yours. Our people can embed in your team, joining your standups, using your tools and reviewing your pull requests. Or we take the whole programme and run it as a full team from our own offices, delivering against outcomes while your team stays on its current roadmap. That second model is how we take on the larger builds, and plenty of engagements start as one and become the other.

Both. Alongside software engineers we field product engineers, who decide what is worth building and cut the scope that is not, and design engineers, who make the thing usable rather than merely functional. All three work as one team, and AI has made that team considerably smaller and faster than the equivalent staffing three years ago. We have a Director of Product and a Director of Design, not a subcontracted design partner.

Most start with a two-to-three week discovery, which gives you a scope, an architecture and a realistic cost before you commit to anything larger. From there we put the right team on it to get things done, with daily demos so you see working software rather than status reports. That might be a single embedded engineer or a pod that owns the programme outright.