Forward Deployed Engineering · by Lean it 101

Senior builders embedded in your most important workflows.

We turn AI opportunities, legacy systems, and operational bottlenecks into reliable software running in production.

OPERATIONALCOMPLEXITYSupport ticketsBilling & invoicingOnboardingData & reportingManual handoffsFORWARD DEPLOYEDENGINEERSAlignBuildIntegrateIterateApplicationsAPIs & servicesData platformsMonitoringBEFOREEMBEDDED · ALIGNED · ACCOUNTABLEIN PRODUCTION

The pilot was the easy part.

The demo worked. Then came the real environment, where promising initiatives usually slow down.

Fragmented data. Spread across systems that never agreed on a shape.

Legacy systems. Load-bearing, undocumented, unforgiving.

Security & governance. Access controls, policies, compliance, audit trails.

Unpredictable edge cases. The 10% the demo never had to survive.

Overloaded engineering teams. No capacity to absorb one more initiative.

Undocumented workflows. How the work happens lives in people’s heads.

THE PILOTpromising resultsFragmented dataLegacy systemsGovernanceEdge casesOverloaded teamsHidden workflows

What Forward Deployed Engineering means.

Embedded with your teams

Our engineers sit inside your business and technical teams and work alongside them every day.

Decisions close to the problem

They learn how the operation actually works and write production code inside your environment.

Accountable end to end

They take responsibility from discovery through deployment, adoption, and improvement.

Discover

Clarify problems & outcomes

Architect

Design the right approach

Code

Build in your environment

Ship

Deploy, adopt, iterate

From code to customer.

Our forward deployed engineers combine six disciplines end to end.

Code
Product thinking
Software engineering
AI & data architecture
Workflow redesign
Systems integration
Operational problem-solving
Customer

From code to customer, from concept to cash.

The goal is working software that improves how the business operates.

Where we create value.

Workflows where complexity, manual effort, and technical constraints meet.

AI agents & support automation
Internal workflow systems
Legacy platform modernization
AI features for existing products
Complex system & API integrations
Knowledge & data pipelines
Evaluation, monitoring & oversight
Rescuing stalled prototypes

Platform experience accelerates delivery.

Our work is supported by Benjamin, the AI platform we built for complex support and operational workflows.

When Benjamin fits the problem, we start ahead. When it does not, we use the same engineering experience to build the right solution.

Grounded AI responsesAgent orchestrationEscalation & handoffsKnowledge retrievalConversation historyWorkflow integrationsOperational reportingSecurity & governanceBenjaminAI PLATFORMSecure · Reliable

How an engagement works.

Understand the workflow

Work with the people closest to the operation, map the current reality, find the first valuable outcome.

Ship the first system

A senior embedded pod designs, builds, integrates, and deploys it into production.

Measure it in production

We track adoption, reliability, cycle time, quality, cost, and operational impact.

Build internal capability

Runbooks, architecture decisions, monitoring, governance, and a team ready to operate it.

Senior people. Small team. Direct ownership.

Experienced engineers who move between business problems, architecture, code, infrastructure, and production operations.

No long chain of account managers.

No handoff from senior consultants to junior delivery teams.

The people understanding the problem are the people building the solution.

Lean, embedded

Align
Build
Deploy
Operate

Direct ownership.
End-to-end impact.

Traditional stack

Account Management
Solution Architects
Project Managers
Business Analysts
Developers
QA / Testers
Operations

Handoffs. Delays.
Diluted accountability.

Built on decades of real delivery.

Vale

R$0M+

in annual savings

Operational redesign across process, leadership, and systems.

Softplan

0%+

backlog reduction

Improved the flow of software delivery; restored SLA compliance at scale.

Segware · Sigma Cloud

Legacy → scale

platform rebuild

Rebuilt a legacy SaaS product into a modern platform prepared for scale.

Benjamin

Ground-up

AI platform

Support, qualification, knowledge retrieval, workflow automation, enterprise integrations.

Bring us one painful workflow.

Something slow, repetitive, expensive, unreliable, or stuck between the business and engineering teams. We’ll find the shortest responsible path to production.

Slow Unreliable Expensive Repetitive Stuck between teams

We reply within one business day. No sales sequence.

The shortest responsible path to production

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