A forward-deployed engineer sits inside your team, on your systems, your data and your rules. They find the real problem, build the smallest first slice worth shipping, prove it with tests you agree, get it through your security and governance review, and hand over something your team can run.
In shortAn IndaPoint forward-deployed AI engineer works inside a client's team and systems: discovery first, then the smallest useful first slice, a test set both sides sign, security and governance review, go-live and a handover the client's team can run. Engaged hourly, weekly or monthly after a one-week free trial.
Every resource starts with a one-week free trial on your real work, so you can judge their skills, communication and how they fit your team. Not right? You pay nothing and there is no obligation to continue.
A pilot works on sample data but has stalled on integration, approval or governance.
Interviews with the people who do the work: how the workflow really runs, what data exists, and the constraint nobody mentions.
The problem priced in hours and money, then cut to the smallest piece that ships in weeks. Sometimes the honest answer is that a workflow is not worth automating.
The problem, the first slice, the success metric and what is out of scope. You sign it.
Your identity, your data and your ticketing. Access is scoped and every call is logged.
Built from your own cases and frozen before the system is good, so "done" cannot move.
Prompt-injection and data-leakage checks, access, data residency, and human approval set to your risk appetite.
A runbook, an on-call path, cost limits and training for your team: a deployment, not a dependency.
The role you need, the stack you run, and what a good week looks like.
A shortlist within days. You interview, you choose.
They start on your real backlog. If it isn't working, you owe nothing.
Hourly, weekly or monthly. Add people as the work grows, pause when it doesn't.
An AI engineer builds to a plan. An FDE also finds the problem, agrees how success is measured, and stays until it passes review and your team can run it.
Where your data has to stay decides where the system runs. All three are supported.
Six documents and a running system: the brief, the integration map, the test-set contract, the security pack, the governance sheet and the go-live and handover pack.
Or combine them into a team, with a bulk discount for more than five people: team packages.
Tell us the work and the stack. We'll send a shortlist within days, and the first week is free.
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