Forward Deployed Engineering

Engineers who ship into your production.

We send a senior engineer to you. They work in your stack, alongside your team, and stay until the system is live and running. Fixed fee, agreed before we start.

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How a typical engagement is tracked — see how we work →
1,400+ successful syncs shipped99.9% production uptimeHundreds of properties served5.0 App Store rating on Tempo
01 — What we build
Four practice areas. All of them end in production.

No slide decks, no roadmap theater. Every engagement ships working software.

Practice 01

Claude Implementation & Integration

We stand up Claude in production, integrated into your existing products, internal tools, or customer-facing applications.

  • Production Claude deployments integrated with your stack
  • Prompt engineering, evals, and guardrails
  • Integration with existing products & internal tools
Practice 02

RAG & Knowledge Systems

We build retrieval systems over approved documents and data, with evaluation, access controls, and a fallback when evidence is missing. Retrieval does not eliminate model errors.

  • Custom retrieval over proprietary data sources
  • Vector databases, embedding pipelines, hybrid search
  • Document ingestion, chunking, and indexing strategies
Practice 03

Agentic Workflows & Automation

We design and ship multi-step agent systems that replace manual processes and unlock net-new capabilities.

  • Multi-step agent systems for internal operations
  • Tool use, function calling, and agent orchestration
  • Workflow automation that replaces manual processes
Practice 04

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Modern data stacks that actually move data where it needs to go, architected and operated end to end.

  • GA4, BigQuery, and data warehouse architecture
  • ETL and reverse-ETL pipelines
  • DataBackfill Sync as a productized reference implementation
02 — Case studies
Production systems, not prototypes.

We're selective about what we take on. Here's what we've shipped.

SaaS
Live since 2024

DataBackfill Sync

GA4 to BigQuery backfill SaaS
Problem

Historical GA4 data isn't available in BigQuery by default — no reliable path for long-term trend analysis.

Solution

A production SaaS that pulls historical GA4 data via the Data API directly into a customer's BigQuery instance. No data stored on our side.

Outcome

1,400+ successful syncs. 99.9% uptime. Hundreds of properties served. Still running.

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Data Sync
DataBackfill Sync dashboard showing GA4 data sync configuration
Google Cloud Settings
DataBackfill Sync Google Cloud credentials and prerequisites checklist
iOS App
Live on the App Store, 2026

Tempo

Cycle-aware fitness app for women
Problem

Generic training plans ignore how readiness and recovery shift across the menstrual cycle, producing worse outcomes and higher dropout.

Solution

An adaptive fitness coach that learns from daily check-ins and adjusts workout intensity using cycle-phase context.

Outcome

Live on the App Store as Tempo Cycle. 5.0 rating.

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Tempo app daily check-in screen with energy, sleep, soreness, and stress sliders
Tempo app results screen showing today's snapshot and cycle phase
Tempo app daily check-in screen showing a workout suggestion
Platform
Live demo, 2026

AssetOS

Operating system for special situations investing
Problem

Special situations investors juggle tax liens, judgments, probate, minerals, and surplus funds across 5+ disconnected systems — Excel trackers, CRMs, manual deadline calendars. One missed redemption deadline can mean a five-figure loss.

Solution

A unified platform with 7 specialized AI agents that calculate statutory interest across jurisdictions, monitor court dockets, generate legal forms, and track redemption deadlines around the clock.

Outcome

170+ assets under management. Production-ready, MIT-licensed codebase. Live demo running across all 5 asset classes.

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Tax Liens Dashboard — live demo
AssetOS Tax Liens Dashboard showing AI-powered distressed asset management tools
03 — How we work
A repeatable delivery model built around shipping, not slide decks.

Three stages. An engineer is embedded with your team for all of them.

01

Discover

A scoped discovery sprint to understand the problem, the constraints, and the right shape of solution.

02

Build

We ship working software, not recommendations. Every engagement ends with something in production.

03

Operate

Hand off cleanly, or stay on retainer to evolve the system as your needs grow.

04 — Who we are
A senior bench. No junior tier.

Every engagement gets a senior engineer embedded with your team. Not a manager relaying to a build happening somewhere else. The person in your standup is the person writing the code.

On the bench

AI & ML Engineering

Engineers who have shipped production AI systems: LLM integrations, fine-tuning, evals, and inference optimization.

Infrastructure Architecture

Architects who design for scale, reliability, and cost: cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and distributed systems.

Product Design for AI

Designers who understand AI constraints and build interfaces that make intelligent systems feel intuitive to end users.

Implementation & Delivery

Delivery leads who keep engagements on track: scoping, sequencing, and surfacing risk before it becomes a problem.

Full-Stack Engineering

Engineers who own the full surface: frontend, backend, APIs, and integrations, without handing off at every layer.

Data Engineering

Specialists in pipelines, warehouses, and data modeling who make sure the right data gets to the right place reliably.

We staff by fit, not availability. Everyone on the bench has shipped production systems before, and nobody is learning on your project. We take a limited number of engagements at a time because the model only works if the engineer is actually present.

"It never felt like hiring a vendor. It felt like adding a team that cared whether the thing actually worked."

— Co-Founder, Early-Stage Startup
05 — Engagements
Three shapes of work. All priced based on scope.

No seat-based tiers. Scope drives price, and every engagement starts with a conversation.

2 weeks · Fixed scope
Discovery Sprint
  • Technical plan & architecture diagram
  • Rough estimate for the build
  • Clear go / no-go recommendation
6–12 weeks · Most common
Build Engagement
  • Architecture, engineering, integration
  • Working software in production
  • Documentation & handoff session
Ongoing · Month-to-month
Operate / Retainer
  • Dedicated capacity post-launch
  • Regular check-ins
  • A team that already knows your stack

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