Some problems cannot be specified from across a table.
An engineer sitting inside the business learns in a week what a discovery document never captures. Forward deployed engineering is that arrangement: our people embedded with yours, solving the problem in the place it actually happens.
What it is
Ordinary delivery assumes the problem can be written down, handed over, and built at a distance. For a lot of work that is true. For the messy kind — where the process is undocumented, the data is not what the schema claims, and the person who understands the edge cases has been there eleven years — it is not. The specification is wrong before anybody starts, and nobody finds out until the demo.
So instead of taking the brief away, we bring the engineer to you. They sit with the team doing the work, in your tools and your context, and build against reality rather than against a description of it. The loop between noticing something and changing it collapses from a change request to a conversation.
What we do
- Engineers embedded with your team
- Working in your context, on your systems, in your stand-ups where that helps — reachable by the people who actually know how the business runs rather than through an account manager.
- Building against reality, not the brief
- The edge cases surface while there is still time to design for them, because the person who will hit them is sitting next to the person writing the code.
- Working inside the systems you already have
- We adapt to your stack, your access model and your deployment process. You are not asked to change how your company operates so that our delivery model works.
- Capability that stays behind
- Your team learns the system as it is built rather than at a handover meeting, which is the difference between owning it and being dependent on us.
How we work
- The engineer in the room is the engineer writing the code
- Suited to problems that are hard to specify but obvious once you are standing in them
- Short feedback loops: noticing and fixing are the same conversation
- Available as an embedded engagement rather than a fixed-scope build
Built with
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- React
- React Native
- Node.js & Express
- Nest.js
- Laravel
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Supabase
- Firebase
- Elasticsearch
- RabbitMQ
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- OpenAI API
- Make, Zapier & n8n
Tell us what you need forward deployed engineering for.
Describe what’s slow, stuck or missing. You’ll leave the first conversation with a scope, a budget and a ship date — and if this is the wrong service for your problem, we’ll say so.