Common questions.

A forward deployed engineer is a senior software engineer who embeds inside your organization. Your repo, your standups, your Slack. They ship production code. Palantir invented the role in 2003 to deploy Gotham inside the CIA and NSA. OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, and Cohere have all adopted the model. FDE brings it to companies that cannot justify a $300k to $600k in house hire.

A consultant delivers a deck and leaves. A forward deployed engineer has commit rights on your stack and is accountable for a production outcome. Different deliverable, different incentive, different hiring bar.

You do. 100 percent. The code lives in your repo from day one. We sign IP transfer in writing before week one starts. No vendor lock in, no platform tax.

Two weeks from signed SOW to first PR is typical. We hold a small number of slots open each quarter to make that possible.

$8,000 for the AI Readiness Sprint over two weeks, or $25,000 for a Production Workflow Build over six weeks. No hourly billing, and no open ended retainers below a quarterly commitment.

Yes. Healthcare under HIPAA, financial services under SOC 2 and SOX, legal work that must respect privilege, and federal work that needs to be FedRAMP ready. Our Regulated Industry Deployment ships with a compliance architecture document and a security review package.

Whatever you use. We have shipped on AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex, and on prem. Models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open weights such as Llama, Mistral, and Qwen. Orchestration with LangGraph, Pydantic AI, or custom code. We meet your stack rather than importing ours.

Remote first, with onsite as the engagement requires it. For regulated work that demands it, we operate inside your security perimeter.