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Forward deployedengineers,on demand

A.Team Deployed gives AI software companies senior, client-ready engineers who embed with your customer, carry your badge, and handle the last mile, in days rather than a hiring cycle.

AI software our engineers deploy

Databricks
Snowflake
LangChain
LangGraph
Pinecone
CrewAI
Writer
Hindsight
Agno

Partners

  • Anthropic Claude Partner Network — Select Services Partner
  • Microsoft for Startups — Pegasus Program
  • OpenAI Select Partner

You closed the deal.Now you have to deliver it.

A.Team Deployed closes the gap without the headcount. Senior engineers deploy in days, embed under your banner, and own the work that turns a signed contract into a live deployment.

A deployed engineer and two members of the customer's team smiling around a laptop in a bright office, all wearing lanyard badges
White-label under your brand

Senior and client-facing by default.

Sales outpaces delivery

Enterprise contracts close faster than deployment teams can staff them, leaving signed deals waiting on people you don't have.

Demand doesn't arrive evenly

Deployment load lands deal by deal, not on a hiring plan. A team sized for your best quarter sits idle in the next one, and a team sized for the average can't cover the peak.

The last mile stalls everything

The product works in the demo. Legacy data, compliance review, internal workflows, and change management are the customer-side work no vendor can absorb permanently.

Senior FDEs are scarce

The forward deployed engineer role grew roughly 40x in 24 months, and demand for senior FDEs far outstrips supply.

The scarcity has a shelf life

Enterprises are building the capability in-house, agents are starting to self-deploy, and in two or three years this gap closes. A permanent org is a long answer to a temporary problem, and most mid-market AI companies can't justify one anyway.

What A.Team Deployed gives you

01White-label

Ramps with your pipeline, not your payroll

Bring on a dedicated engineer when a deal closes, step them down when it wraps. Sized to what your customer needs this quarter, not a permanent hire you're carrying between deals. Still under your brand, still on your stack.

02Caliber

Cultivated over years

Deployment-ready engineers drawn from a deep AI bench and assessed across 8 dimensions for fit to your deployment. We've been developing this profile since before it had a title.

03Continuity

They see it through, then hand it back

Your engineer builds the last mile and stays through handover, not rotating off mid-delivery. Embedded with your customer day to day, they're often first to spot the next expansion.

04Commercials

Priced against the delivery

Monthly, per engagement, sized to the delivery your customer is expecting. No placement fees, no severance, and no permanent org to justify once the rollout is done.

What we see before you do

Every engineer is scored before they make the bench: across production AI experience, ownership, client-facing communication. Deployment-ready engineers come out of our network with real depth in the industries and disciplines enterprise rollouts land in.

Engineers, AI architects, data scientists, product managers and DevOps.

Marcus D.
Marcus D.AI architect · 16 yrs
Ideal Fit
84/100FD readiness

Build

  • Craft depth
    91
  • Production maturity
    88

Deliver

  • End-to-end delivery
    86
  • Scoping & judgement
    82

Systematize

  • Reusability & product mindset
    79

Land

  • Communication
    74
  • Adoption & impact
    85
  • Enterprise & SaaS fluency
    58

Illustrative. Real builders are scored the same way; we don't publish individual scores.

Who you get, and where they've worked

Roles
  • AI architects
  • Engineers
  • Data scientists
  • Product managers
  • DevOps
Domains
  • CPG
  • Legal & professional services
  • Healthcare
  • Financial services
  • Manufacturing
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Civil & environmental
  • PE / VC

How it works

1

You brief us on the engagement

One call on the customer, the scope, the stack, and the timeline. We map your delivery commitment to the right engineer profile.

2

We scope it and name the team

Within three to five business days we come back with the engineer or pod we're putting on it, priced, and why we're proposing that team. You meet them before anything starts.

3

They embed with your customer

Your matched engineer deploys under your banner and takes on the last-mile work.

4

They get it repeatable, then hand it over

Once the work is repeatable, the knowledge transfers to the team who'll run it and the engineer rotates off. The capability stays with your team.

What your deployed engineers handle

Roughly 70% of forward-deployed work is evals, custom pipelines and change management, and only 30% is core build, the inverse of traditional services. That's the part a contractor doesn't cover.

01

Legacy data

Migration and integration across legacy systems, internal APIs, identity and permissions.

02

Compliance & security

Security review and the procurement realities that stall a rollout.

03

Workflow integration

Internal workflow integration and custom configuration.

04

Change management

Customer-side change management and enablement.

05

Production hardening

Monitoring, failure handling, and the hardening a demo environment never surfaces.

06

Customer-specific evals

What "correct" means differs by customer. The engineer builds and tunes it.

07

Enterprise access

NDAs, IP assignment, and badge access, handled as standard.

08

Procurement cover

Your account team stays out of infrastructure and security negotiations.

09

Runbooks and handover

UAT, training, and the runbooks that let your team run it once the engineer rotates off.

A.Team Deployed vs. the alternatives

How we compare to a permanent FDE hire, generic staffing, and your existing contractors:

CriterionPermanent FDE hireGeneric staffingYour contractorsA.Team Deployed
Time to start6–9 months2–4 weeksBench-dependent3–5 days
VettingInternalSelf-reportedUnknown to youInvite-only, under 2%
Client-facing readinessBuilt for itRarelySometimesStandard
Sees it through handoverYesSometimesSometimesYes, same engineer
Cost$200–350K/yr loadedOpaque hourly markupVariable~$25K/mo, transparent
Wears your badgeYesNoSometimesYes, by design
Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Roughly $25,000 per month for a senior builder, fully loaded. Engagements are scoped to your customer's delivery commitment, so you pay for the work the project requires. Insight Partners puts a permanent in-house FDE at $200–350K a year fully loaded, so this is capital-efficient for engagements that can't justify a permanent function. No placement fees, no severance.

Ready to brief us on the engagement?

Tell us about the engagement (customer profile, stack, timeline) and we'll come back with named, senior engineers ready to embed.

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