Services
I join your team, sit with the people who have the problem, and ship AI agents into your real systems. Forward deployed engineering on a sprint or a retainer, without months of hiring.
Both start with a free scoping call. No hourly billing.
30 minutes on the customer or workflow that's stuck. You leave knowing whether an embedded engineer is the right fix.
I join your channels, sit in on the customer or team calls, and map the real workflow. You approve a one-page scope and success metric.
Working agents in the customer's or team's real tools, with a demo every week and evals from the first build.
Monitoring, runbook and training, so your team or a future FDE hire can own it. Then 30 days of fixes.
The forward deployed part matters as much as the engineering. Most AI projects stall because nobody technical sits with the people who have the problem. I spend the first week in your team's or your customer's workflow, then build there, with the same production habits I use everywhere: evals, human approval on risky actions and live monitoring.
Real questions from scoping calls. If yours isn't here, ask it on a free 30-minute call.
A forward deployed engineer works directly with the people who have a problem, inside their systems, and writes the production code that solves it. Fractional means you get that for part of the week or for a fixed project, instead of hiring someone full time. It suits teams that need FDE work now but aren't ready to add permanent headcount.
A consultant usually advises and hands over recommendations. A forward deployed engineer writes the code, ships it into your real systems and stays accountable until it works. I do the discovery a consultant would, then build the thing myself.
In-house FDEs are among the most expensive engineering hires in 2026, and take months to find. Working with me costs $15–30K a month on an embedded retainer, or $30–60K fixed for a production agent in 4–6 weeks. I don't bill by the hour.
Yes. For AI startups selling to enterprises, I can join customer calls and implementation work as part of your team, under your brand, so your core engineers stay on the product.
I'm based in Islamabad and overlap with US mornings. You get a written update before your day starts, a weekly demo in your morning, and decisions in writing so nothing waits for a meeting.
I stay the lead engineer and can add vetted engineers from the Ayraxs bench for larger programs, so you get more capacity without starting a new vendor relationship.