Custom software, shipped in months, not quarters.
Forward Deployed Engineers — senior engineers embedded in your Slack from day one — paired with an internal AI toolchain that compresses research, prototyping, and boilerplate. The result: a working release in about three months, fixed-price against a written scope, with a senior reviewer on every pull request.
Free 1–2 week discovery · Fixed price · You own the code
Two ways to put us to work.
Whether you have no engineering team or fifty engineers, the engagement model is the same: a written scope, a Forward Deployed Engineer in your Slack, our internal AI toolchain on every workflow, and milestone billing tied to working software you sign off on.
Build a product, end to end
For founders and SMBs without an in-house team. A Forward Deployed Engineer takes you from a one-page brief to a deployed first release in about three months — research, design, build, launch, and the first 30 days of on-call coverage included.
Embed with your engineering team
For ops leaders, CTOs, and product teams that need senior capacity now, not in nine months of hiring. A Forward Deployed Engineer slots into your repo and standups, picks up critical work, writes the docs, and leaves your team stronger than they found it.
Research, flow, prototype, production —
AI-accelerated, senior-reviewed, fully visible.
Our internal AI toolchain takes the boilerplate out of every phase: synthesizing research, generating flow diagrams, scaffolding prototypes, drafting code. A senior engineer reviews every output before it lands in your repo. You watch it all happen inside one portal — architecture document, flow diagrams, clickable prototype, pull requests — not in a Friday slide deck. The workflow that lets a six-to-twelve-month build finish in about three.
acme-fleet-console — discovery & scoping
- 47 sources analysed across industry reports⁽2⁾
- 12 distilled insights, 3 critical risks⁽3⁾
- Recommended approach: phased rollout⁽4⁾
- ¹ Industry, 2024
- ² Stripe report
- ³ FDA guidance
- ⁴ McKinsey
- ⁵ Customer #4
An engagement memo, with citations.
AI-powered research engines paired with a senior analyst. Forty-plus sources per brief, distilled into a written memo where every claim is traceable to a numbered reference.
- AI document analysis and structured data extraction
- Senior analyst on every quality pass
- Cited findings — every claim linked to source
- Delivered as a Fluxent doc inside the portal
A Forward Deployed Engineer. Direct line. Full ownership.
No account managers, no handoffs, no junior team behind the curtain. A senior engineer scopes your project, writes the code, runs the demos, and lives in your Slack from day one — backed by an internal AI toolchain that takes the boilerplate off their plate. Production deploys most weeks, not most quarters.
● Traditional agency
Slow, opaque, expensive.
- ×Account manager → PM → designer → engineer handoffs eat 30–40% of the timeline.
- ×Same-day feedback is impossible; iteration cycles run two to three weeks.
- ×Knowledge silos walk out the door when the engagement ends.
- ×Generic playbooks; no AI tooling to compress the busywork.
● Embedded build squad
Direct, fast, accountable.
- ✓Senior engineer in your Slack, your standups, your repo from day one.
- ✓Same-day feedback loops. Production deploys most weeks, not most quarters.
- ✓Documented context lives in your portal — not on someone's laptop.
- ✓Full access to the AI tooling: research, flow, prototype, code generation.
The kind of work we ship.
Six representative builds across the categories we get asked for most. Clients and exact numbers are anonymized; named case studies launch as each engagement signs off.
in first 6 months post-launch
patient onboarding throughput
closed off the prototype demo
reclaimed from busywork
grounded research engine v1
annual cloud + render budget
What clients most often ask us for.
A non-exhaustive list. If your problem doesn't fit one of these, scope it anyway — odds are we've shipped something close.
Internal tools & operations software
Replace fragile spreadsheets and manual handoffs with admin consoles, dashboards, and workflow tools your team actually uses.
Customer-facing web & mobile
Production web apps and iOS / Android experiences for founders shipping a first product or SMBs replacing an off-the-shelf tool that no longer fits.
AI workflows & automation
Real LLM and agent systems wired into your operations — RAG over your data, copilots for your team, evaluations included. Measured by accuracy and cost, not vibes.
Integrations & data plumbing
Stripe, Salesforce, HubSpot, Twilio, EHRs, custom REST and GraphQL — typed clients, retries, idempotency, and the operational hygiene to keep them running.
Investor-ready prototypes
From brief to clickable hi-fi prototype in days. Pressure-test the concept with users or your board before you commit to a full build.
Codebase & architecture audits
Senior eyes on your stack — performance, security, maintainability. Written report and a prioritized action plan you can run with us or in-house.
The questions buyers actually ask.
If yours isn't here, the contact form puts a senior engineer on the thread inside 24 hours — not a sales sequence.
We are a software engineering and systems partner for founders, SMBs, and operations teams. We design, build, and run custom software — internal tools, customer-facing products, AI workflows, integrations, and the platforms behind them — either as a full delivery team or embedded inside your existing engineering org.
A Forward Deployed Engineer is a senior engineer who sits directly in your Slack, your standups, and your repository from day one — no account managers, no project managers, no handoff layers. They own scope, code, and delivery end-to-end. It's the same embedded engineering model Palantir popularized for solving real customer problems at the source.
AI is a tool inside our workflow, not the product we sell. Our internal toolchain accelerates the parts of a build that don't need senior judgment: synthesizing research, generating flow diagrams and scaffolding from a brief, drafting boilerplate code, writing first-pass tests and documentation. A Forward Deployed Engineer reviews every AI-produced artifact before it ships, and senior judgment owns architecture, security, and trade-off decisions. The net effect is a six-to-twelve-month timeline compressed to about three.
Funded startup founders without a tech team, SMB owners replacing manual workflows with software, operations and product leaders at mid-sized companies, and CTOs who need senior capacity without a 9-month hiring cycle. Our smallest engagements start around $20K; our largest are multi-quarter embedded partnerships.
Most engagements run one to two weeks of free discovery, then roughly three months of development to a production-ready first release. A clickable hi-fi prototype typically lands inside the first three weeks. Larger systems (multi-tenant SaaS, regulated industries, integrations-heavy work) are scoped against milestones with a senior reviewer on every pull request.
Discovery is free for one to two weeks and ends with a signed Scope Agreement: a written brief, milestones, fixed prices, and acceptance criteria. You only pay when a milestone ships and you approve it. Embedded engagements run on a monthly retainer with a transparent rate card.
You own all code, IP, and data — written into every Scope Agreement. We work under mutual NDA, run least-privilege access through our portal vault, and follow standard practices around secrets, audit logging, and code review. We have shipped work in regulated environments (healthcare, fintech) and will adapt to SOC 2, HIPAA, or PCI requirements when the engagement calls for it.
Tell us what you’re trying to build.
A senior engineer replies inside 24 hours. The first one to two weeks of discovery is on us — you walk away with a written scope, a fixed price, and a date you can hold us to, whether or not you decide to build with us.
Free discovery · Fixed-price build · NDA on request · You own the code