Forward Deployed Engineering · by Lean it 101
We turn AI opportunities, legacy systems, and operational bottlenecks into reliable software running in production.
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.
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
Our forward deployed engineers combine six disciplines end to end.
From code to customer, from concept to cash.
The goal is working software that improves how the business operates.
Workflows where complexity, manual effort, and technical constraints meet.
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.
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.
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
Direct ownership.
End-to-end impact.
Traditional stack
Handoffs. Delays.
Diluted accountability.
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.
Something slow, repetitive, expensive, unreliable, or stuck between the business and engineering teams. We’ll find the shortest responsible path to production.
The shortest responsible path to production
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