Forward Deploy
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Human-first deployment

Put an AI expert inside your team.

Most AI pilots fail — not on technology, on integration. We embed a forward-deployed expert inside your team to build, deploy, and teach where you actually work. Any industry. Any level.

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First deployment live in ~2 weeks

Deploying across every team, any industry

EngineeringSalesSupportOperationsFinancePeople

The forward-deployed engineer is one of the hottest jobs in tech — because AI pilots don’t fail on technology. They fail on integration.

GROWTH IN DEMAND

+700%

Year-over-year rise in forward-deployed roles.

POSTINGS IN A MONTH

5,000+

Forward-deployed roles posted in a single month.

TO FIRST DEPLOYMENT

2 weeks

From kickoff to your first live deployment.

Why pilots stall

Most AI pilots don’t fail on technology. They fail on integration.

The hardest part of shipping AI isn’t the model. It’s the messy, human parts: mapping how an org actually runs, how teams will adopt it, and getting to the data people trust. That’s the gap a forward-deployed expert is built to close.

The engineer

Can build almost anything — but rarely sits one-to-one with the people who'll actually use it.

The consultant

Diagnoses the problem well — then hands you a deck and tells you what to go build.

The forward-deployed expert

Sits in the middle of engineering, product, and sales at once — becomes your technical team and builds directly on your data.

The real differentiator

As the model becomes a commodity, deployment becomes the difference.

The edge is no longer the technology. It’s the people who can sit with your team, win their trust, and ship where the work actually happens.

The forward-deployed model

Built inside your building, not ours.

The idea is simple: instead of keeping the best engineers at headquarters, you send them into the building. They sit with the team, learn how the work really happens, and ship on-site — then bring everything they learn back into the product.

01

Embed with your team

We don't parachute in a deck. We sit with your people, in your tools, and learn how the work actually gets done.

02

Map the messy parts

The hard part is rarely the tech. It's how the org runs, how teams will adopt it, and getting to data people trust.

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Build on your systems

We build directly on your data and stack, decide what's worth shipping, and integrate it where the work lives.

Any team, any level

Where we deploy.

You don’t need to hire internally to find out where AI fits. We embed an expert who sees where it belongs, ships it, and empowers the team — wherever the work happens.

Find your fit
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ENGINEERING

For engineers

Ship faster with AI wired into your codebase, reviews, and pipeline — so your team steers code instead of just writing it.

  • Agents on your codebase
  • Faster review & shipping
  • Tooling your team owns
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FRONT OFFICE

For front office

Draft, answer, and follow up in seconds — so sales, support, and success spend their time on people, not repetition.

  • Drafting & follow-up
  • Instant answers on your data
  • More time for humans
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BACK OFFICE

For back office

Cut manual data entry and reporting; give your team answers instead of spreadsheets, and leave them the judgment.

  • Automated busywork
  • Clean, trusted data
  • Fewer manual handoffs
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EVERYONE ELSE

For everyone else

Automate the repetitive, judgment-light work on any team, in any industry — with training so it actually sticks.

  • Any industry, any level
  • Hands-on enablement
  • Adoption that lasts
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Team enablement
  • Playbook shipped
  • Team trained
  • Guardrails in place
Adoption92%

Human first

Less scary. More human.

AI should empower your team, not replace it. We make it approachable — sitting beside your people, earning trust, and leaving them more capable than we found them. You’re not missing out because you’re careful; you’re missing out by staying on the sidelines.

Empower, don't replace

We augment your team's judgment and give them time back — we never try to automate people away.

Earn trust first

We sit beside your people and map how the work really happens before we ship anything.

Capability that stays

When we leave, your team can run and extend what we built — no dependency on us.

How engagements run

From zero to deployed in two weeks.

One flat monthly rate. One embedded expert. A clear path from “we should use AI” to AI that’s quietly running in the background.

  1. 01

    Embed & map

    We join your team, learn the workflows, and find where AI actually creates leverage — not where it looks impressive.

  2. 02

    Ship the first deployment

    Something real and useful goes live in about two weeks, built on your data and running inside your tools.

  3. 03

    Teach & enable

    We train your team to run it with confidence. The goal is capability that stays after we do.

  4. 04

    Handoff & expand

    We hand your team a system they can run and extend on their own — then expand to the next workflow when you're ready.

Introducing Erdos

The one asset that stays behind.

Forward Deploy makes your team great at AI. Erdos makes sure they never forget how.

Erdos is your company's private brain. Ask it anything in Slack — it answers from your own docs, SOPs, and decisions, with sources. We build it, you own it, we keep it fresh.

When the deployment ends, the knowledge stays. New hires ask Erdos instead of interrupting your best people. Your best answers stop living in one person's head.

Your data stays yours — isolated, private, and removable anytime.
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Built during your engagement, then continues as an Erdos retainer from $997/mo.

Erdos

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Annual plans are refundable pro-rata within 30 days of renewal. After 30 days, the balance converts to credit on the next term.

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Simple pricing

One flat rate. Pause anytime.

No contracts. No internal hire. No surprise invoices. Subscribe, get an embedded expert, and cancel when AI is running itself.

Standard

One embedded expert, one deployment at a time.

$4,995/ month
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  • One active deployment at a time
  • Embedded AI expert on your team
  • Weekly working sessions + async
  • Team training & enablement
  • Built on your data & systems
  • Pause or cancel anytime
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Pro

For teams deploying AI across more than one workflow.

$7,995/ month
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  • Everything in Standard
  • Two active deployments at a time
  • Priority turnaround
  • On-site embedding option
  • Custom integrations
  • Dedicated Slack channel
The asset that stays

Erdos

The brain that stays. Keep your company's knowledge alive after deployment.

From $997/ month
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  • Your private company brain, always on
  • Answers in Slack from your own docs & decisions
  • A source on every answer
  • We build it, you own it, we keep it fresh
  • Isolated, private, removable anytime
  • The natural next step after your engagement

Every plan includes hands-on training. Pause or cancel anytime.

Questions

Good to know.

Still deciding? These are the things teams ask us before they embed an expert.

The idea is simple: instead of keeping your best engineers at headquarters, you send them into the customer's building. They sit with the team, learn how messy real-world workflows actually work, and build on-site. A forward-deployed expert sits between engineering, product, and sales — and effectively becomes your technical team.

No — and for most teams that's a waste of money. You don't need a full-time AI hire to find out where AI fits. You need someone who's already at the frontier to embed, see where it belongs, ship it, and teach your team to run it.

Any industry, any level. Engineering, front office, back office, leadership — if there's repetitive or judgment-light work, there's a deployment. Most AI pilots fail on integration, not technology, and that problem looks the same everywhere.

Typically about two weeks to your first live deployment. We embed, map the workflow, and ship something real on your data — then iterate from there.

Standard runs one active deployment at a time with a single embedded expert. Pro runs two deployments in parallel with priority turnaround, an on-site option, custom integrations, and a dedicated Slack channel. Both include training and can be paused anytime.

The knowledge stays. During your engagement we build Erdos — a private company brain that answers questions in Slack from your own docs, SOPs, and decisions, with sources. When the deployment winds down, Erdos continues as a living asset your team owns, so your best answers never leave with one person.

You do. Everything we build runs on your own data and systems, and Erdos is isolated and private to your company — with a source on every answer so your team can trust it. Your data stays yours: never shared, and removable anytime.

That's exactly why we exist. Forward Deploy is human-first: we make AI less scary by sitting beside your people, earning trust, and empowering the team — not replacing it. You're not missing out because you're cautious; you're missing out by staying on the sidelines.

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Stop running pilots that go nowhere. Embed an expert, ship something real in two weeks, and give your whole team a reason to stop being afraid of AI.