Forward Deployment Engineer
Production AI in your environment. 30 days.
I embed with your team, learn your context fast, and build a working AI system around it. You own everything I deliver.
The last mile is the hard part
Models are commodities. The hard part is everything around them: your data, your processes, your rules, your people.
I sit in that gap. I capture the organizational context that makes an AI system actually useful, and I wire it into something that runs.
Discovery, harness, pilot
Week 1. Discovery.
I meet your sponsor, your business teams, your engineers. I map decision-makers, data sources, and blind spots. By Friday I know what to build.
Weeks 2-3. The harness.
The harness is everything around the LLM: governance, connectors, knowledge base, sandbox. I deploy on AWS: compute, serverless, security, cost management.
Weeks 3-4. The pilot.
Real users, real work. We measure what changes: time saved, errors reduced, decisions accelerated. I iterate until it holds up on its own.
I do not produce strategy documents. I produce systems that run.
What you walk away with
- A working AI system in production
- A contextual knowledge map of your organization
- Full documentation of the harness
- Before/after metrics on the pilot
- A plan for scaling beyond the first deployment
Everything I build, you keep. You can change models, switch providers, or evolve the architecture.
1 to 3 months
First measurable result within 30 days. I work on-site, hybrid, or remote.
The engagement requires a named sponsor at C-level or director level who can unblock access to people and data.
What I do not do
I am not married to a vendor. I pick the best model for your situation.
I do not produce slide decks or strategy documents.
I do not build a dependency on myself. The goal is that your team operates independently after I leave.
Questions
- What does a Forward Deployment Engineer do?
- I embed with your team, learn your context, and build a working AI system around it. On AWS, in your environment, with your data. You own the result.
- How long does an engagement take?
- First measurable result within 30 days. A typical mission runs 1 to 3 months.
- What happens after?
- Your team operates the system independently. You can change models, switch providers, or evolve the architecture. Nothing is locked in.
Let's scope it
A 30 to 45 minute discovery call. I learn your context, you learn my approach. If there is a fit, I send a scoped proposal with perimeter, timeline, success metrics, and budget. Bring the executive sponsor who can unblock access to people and data.
Book a discovery call