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Forward Deployed Engineering

Engineers embedded inside client teams.

Agentic AI

Deloitte

Deloitte built Zora AI, an agentic product platform shipping ready-to-deploy AI agents that perceive, reason, and…

Forward Deployed Engineering

AWS

Amazon committed $1 billion from its own balance sheet in June 2026 to stand up an…

Forward Deployed Engineering

Microsoft

Microsoft turned its 27% ownership stake in OpenAI and its existing enterprise footprint into the largest…

Forward Deployed Engineering

Distyl AI

Distyl AI, founded in 2022 by former Palantir and Apple engineers Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho,…

Forward Deployed Engineering

Tribe AI

Tribe AI has run a network-based forward deployed model since bootstrapping in 2019, drawing on more…

Forward Deployed Engineering

Mechanical Orchard

Mechanical Orchard, founded in 2022 by Matthew Work and Rob Mee, applies an AI-native, forward-deployed engineering…

Forward Deployed Engineering

Plank

Plank, led by CEO and co-founder Privahini Bradoo, trains and embeds forward deployed AI engineers with…

Agentic AI

Accenture

Accenture built the largest AI practice among the traditional systems integrators, and its financial results back…

Agentic AI

Palantir

Palantir originated the forward deployed engineering model around 2006, when its data-integration software proved too complex…

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