An engineer on-site with you, until it reaches production.
Forward Deployed Engineering: we place an experienced engineer inside your company for a clearly bounded period, until your system doesn’t just run but works in production, at a fixed price with a production guarantee.
Levels & guide prices
By person-day
€1,200–2,500 / dayA top engineer works directly in your team, billed by person-day — steering stays with you.
Single FDE
from €25,000 / monthA senior expert plugs into your IT team: major performance issues, architecture shifts, or AI/big data in your existing infrastructure.
Deployment team
from €60,000 / monthA well-rehearsed team (2–3 engineers + product lead) ships a highly complex product (MVP) in 2 to 3 months.
Enterprise FDE
from €150,000 / monthEntire departments are transformed, big data consolidated and a bespoke AI operating system built for your company.
Guide prices, net. The final price is agreed together in a conversation — never blindly added up.
Most projects stall in the gap between „technically done“ and „actually used every day“.
Most digital projects don’t fail on technology, they fail on the last mile: the system is built, but it doesn’t fit your real workflows, no one on your team has taken ownership, and remote vendors work past your reality from a distance. Forward Deployed Engineering flips that around. Instead of delivering from afar, an experienced engineer works directly with you for a bounded period, on your data, with your people, until it runs in production.
A system is „finished“, yet hardly anyone uses it day to day.
Requirements only become clear once someone stands in your real data on-site.
Vendors deliver remotely, but the last mile into your workflows never lands.
This is what it looks like for you
On site with you: understand, build, hand over — an engineer works inside your company until it runs in production.
We bring the engineering to where your reality is: to your site, into your systems, alongside your team, on a fixed timeline and with the commitment that production is the outcome, not another pilot.
Three engagement shapes, one clear frame
FDE Sprint · about 4 weeks
One concrete use case in production, including ready-to-use runbooks for your team. Fixed on-site days per week. The fast way to unblock a stuck initiative.
FDE Standard · about 12 weeks
One to two demanding use cases taken live, with a test and eval pipeline and training for your engineers. The proven shape for something built to last.
FDE Embedded · about 6 months
A dedicated squad delivers several use cases in parallel and builds internal capability, until your team can carry it on its own.
When the engagement pays off
AI into production
An AI or automation prototype should finally run reliably in daily operations, not just in the demo.
Deep integration
A system needs to be wired tightly into your existing databases, tools and workflows.
A stuck initiative
A project has been stalled for months because the final 20 percent won’t come together remotely.
Build capability in-house
Your team shouldn’t just receive the new system, they should be able to run it themselves afterwards.
The result is a system in live production, owned and run by your own team, not dependent on us.
Included
- A fixed timeline and fixed price instead of open day rates.
- Production guarantee: if the system doesn’t reach live operation within the agreed frame, we keep working at our own cost.
- A first working integration within roughly 14 days of kickoff.
- Ready-to-use runbooks and documentation for your team.
- Training and knowledge transfer to your engineers.
- One named contact on your side, so the knowledge stays in-house.
Why the model holds
Fixed price with a guarantee
You buy an outcome, not open-ended effort. The risk of the last mile sits with us, not with you.
No endless pilot
Clear limits in time and scope. An FDE engagement has a defined end, not a creeping permanent presence.
The knowledge stays with you
Your team works alongside us from day one. In the end you run the system yourself instead of staying dependent.
Calm, transparent, in four steps.
Understand
We listen before we build. Goals, workflows, bottlenecks.
Plan
A clear plan with a fixed scope. No surprises.
Build
Premium craft, close collaboration, on time.
Care
We stay. Maintenance, evolution, availability.
A project that has been stuck for months?
Tell us where it’s jammed in an intro call. If an on-site engagement is the right lever, we’ll tell you which shape fits and what it costs.
Book an intro call