For programs that need engineers in the room, we embed with your team, forward-deployed in your environment and on your hardware, and build production systems alongside you.
Forward-deployed engineering is an engagement model where senior engineers embed inside your team and environment to build and deploy production systems. The way to get a high-consequence system into production is to put senior engineers where the work actually happens: on your platform, in your environment, against the conditions the system will face. In a forward-deployed engagement, we embed with your team and own the hard part alongside you, from problem definition through deployed software.
The people who scope the work are the people who do it. You get engineers who have built and deployed high-consequence systems before, not a pitch team followed by a junior handoff.
Many of these engagements are with strong teams that need specific depth for an autonomous or high-consequence capability. We integrate with the team you have and accelerate the exact bottleneck.
We own the technical outcome to the point the system works in the field, not a scoped artifact you are left to integrate later.
We are an engineering firm, not a consultancy. Our engineers are hands-on: they design, develop, and deploy production systems. We also engage at the strategy level, including architecture review, technical due diligence, hardware selection, and product roadmap, but that work is led by the people who build real systems, not contextless advice from people who don’t.
Our customers don’t hire us for a strategy deck. They hire us for systems that work where they matter most: in the field. That’s why the engineers who shape the solution are the same ones who build, test, and deploy it. The people making the decisions are accountable for the outcome, so the vision never drifts from reality.
Brian Geisel · Founder & Chief Innovation Officer
Deploying our engineers to your team changes the shape of the work. Instead of a scoped project delivered at arm’s length, the engagement moves through three stages, working closely within your operation the whole way.
Underneath, every engagement runs on our Ground Truth methodology, from problem definition through deployed software. See how we work for the full framework.
Our engineers get into your environment, systems, and constraints quickly, so we are solving the real problem rather than a whiteboard version of it.
We develop against your real hardware and data, in tight loops with your team, so what we build is production-shaped from the first week.
We take the system to the field and make sure your team can own, run, and maintain it after we are done.
Forward-deployed engineering is the right approach when the solution and the environment are equally complex. Building the capability is only part of the work. Making it operate reliably within your hardware, data, workflows, and constraints is what determines whether it reaches production. Because many of those requirements only emerge through direct engagement, engineers need to spend time where the work happens. It fits when you have:
Secured funding and a defined program with a real delivery date. Pre-funding or purely exploratory engagements usually are not the right fit.
A strong team that needs specific depth, such as autonomy, perception, edge AI, or embedded, to get a high-consequence system across the line.
A system that has to behave correctly in the field, under real conditions, where a bad deployment is not an option.
Rover deployment software and the ground-control interface for the ground-penetrating radar aboard three autonomous lunar rovers.
Operator control interface for unmanned ground platforms in degraded environments.
Production software running at fleet scale. US-based, ITAR-ready.
Walk us through the system you need to get into the field, and we will tell you what it will actually take.