Forward-deployed engineering
Any field, any size, any scope, if it's feasible.
Pick your field and what you need, and see how we'd take it on before anyone gets on a call. Then tell us the problem in your words. We'll say yes, no, or who should do it.
1 · Your field
2 · Your size
3 · What you need
Picking options sends nothing. It only shows how an engagement would look.
The role
Forward-deployed engineers: we work inside your operation until it works
A forward-deployed engineer works where the problem lives: on your floor, in your yard, beside your team. Not in a slide deck and not at a help desk. They learn how your operation really runs, build or fix the thing that's in the way (a process, a tool, a machine integration, software, or data), and leave it working, documented and owned by you.
The role started inside software companies that sent engineers to make their products work for customers. We do it the other way round: loyal to your problem, not to a product.
We learn your operation on site first. When a job needs a specialist, we bring the specialist the job needs. For physical design, simulation and hardware we work with our design partner, Meridian Silicon. One engineer owns your Work Order the whole way.
Where the problem lives
On your floor, in your yard, beside your team. Not in a slide deck and not at a help desk.
Learns how it really runs
Watches the work, measures where it stands today, and writes down what ‘fixed’ means in terms a stranger could test.
Builds or fixes the thing in the way
A process, a tool, a machine integration, software or data: shipped into your operation and proven with evidence, not slides.
Leaves it owned by you
Documentation, a trained owner on your team, and a reuse note: what you can repeat without us.
How it works
Three gates, every time
- 1
Scope gate
Acceptance criteria a stranger could test, written with you before any work starts.
- 2
Go gate
Dates, a stop date and your approval before anything is spent.
- 3
Acceptance gate
Evidence for every criterion, checked by an engineer who didn't do the work. Then you sign off, or we go back and fix what failed.
What it looks like
An example, step by step
An illustrative scenario, not a past client.
Illustrative scenario
the changeover nobody has time to fix
- Intake
A regional fabrication shop loses hours every week to a changeover nobody has time to fix.
- Scope
An engineer spends the first days on the floor timing it and writing down what ‘fixed’ means, with the shop's lead hand.
- Build
They rebuild the fixture and the setup sheet inside the shop, with the lead hand.
- Close
The job closes when the criteria are met with evidence, the lead hand can run it alone, and the documentation is on the shop's own drive.
This is an example of how an engagement runs, not a past client or a real result.
Straight answers
Before you write to us
Will this cost more than it's worth?
Before anything is spent you get a written scope, a date and a stop date. At each gate you decide whether we continue.
Who owns what you build?
You do, as delivered. The acceptance criteria are agreed up front, so ‘done’ is never a dispute.
Will you leave us stranded?
Nothing closes until the documentation is handed over and someone on your team owns it. That's written into the acceptance criteria.
Isn't this just consulting?
We ship working things into your operation and prove them with evidence, not slides.
Does our data leave the building?
We work inside your environment. Your credentials and your customers' data don't leave it.
Are we too small for this?
Small scopes are welcome. Some jobs take a few days, and an investigation can end with a written answer and no build.
Do you know our industry?
We learn your operation on site first. When a job needs a specialist, we bring one, and if someone else should do it, we'll tell you who.
Tell us the problem. We'll say yes, no, or who should do it.
A few plain sentences are enough to start: what happens, where, and what ‘fixed’ would look like.
Tell us the problemNo pitch deck. A reply from an engineer.