Meet your Forward Deployed Executive
A forward deployed engineer, an FDE, builds AI inside your company instead of advising from outside. Ours have spent fifteen-plus years in the C-suite, taken a company from zero to $1B+ and exited. Built for startups and scale-ups.
Free 30 minutes with Georgina. Straight answer, no pitch.
What is an FDE
Your processes and platforms on the left. The intelligence on the right. The FDE sits in the middle and wires the two together until they run as one.
Why AI stalls inside real companies
Agents drift. Nobody reads the output at 2am.
Confident, fluent, wrong. That is a real number gone bad.
Brilliant with models. Never closed a month end.
That is where the FDE comes in. Connected to your systems, watching every output, answering for the results.
Very diligent, very reliable, methodical, implementing efficient processes
William GreenCEO, L'estrange
An innovative financial leader. Building scalable AI solutions
Dan MollerCOO, Vinaya Technology
Our operators have held senior roles at
American Express
Salesforce
Tripadvisor
AI does not break on the model. It breaks on the floor, inside a real company. Most FDEs have never run one. Ours have run several, and sold them. Built for startups and scale-ups only, if you are a five thousand person enterprise we are not your firm.
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Weeks to the first system live inside your stack, watched by a named owner
Finance, sales, operations, people and compliance wired to AI, one function at a time
Nothing reaches your desk without a human who has run companies reading it first
Very diligent, very reliable, methodical, implementing efficient processes.
Human+ AI ↑
Forward deployed means inside. They sit in your leadership team and build the AI that does the repetitive work: reading, drafting, monitoring. They make the decisions and answer for the results.
Map the work, build inside your own systems
You own everything built: code, agents, accounts, docs
What your FDE changes, one function at a time, behind a named owner. Read the backend that runs itself →
What gets built, department by department:
Free 30 minutes with Georgina. Straight answer, no pitch.
Tell us what you need. Within a day we match you with your operator, and you can stop anytime. Two ways to work with us:
The main way in
Fractional
An FDE leader on your leadership team, part time.
1–2 days a week
Starts from$5,800per month
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Project
One function made AI ready, with an end date.
8–14 weeks
Starts from$30kwhole project
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What the CEOs we worked with say
“A key part of our exit, data strategy and overall growth.”Mat Westergreen, CEO, Grantify
“Very diligent, very reliable, methodical, implementing efficient processes.”William Green, CEO, L'estrange
“They turned data we were sitting on into real revenue streams.”Babacar Diallo, CEO, Oolu Solar
“An innovative financial leader. Scalable solutions, and a real leader.”Dan Moller, COO, Vinaya Technology
“They simplified our complex picture into a clear commercial strategy.”Joysy John, Client
“Our $30M round needed someone who understood valuation and the tactics behind a raise.”Carl Steinmann, Founder, Acresclub
Let’s get on a call
Georgina books you a free 30-minute call. Straight answer, no pitch. If there is nothing worth doing, we say so on the call.
Consultants are paid to advise. We are paid to deliver.
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FAQ
A fraction of one senior full-time hire. Fractional starts from $5,800 per month, projects start from $30k, with no salary, no equity and no notice period. Smaller companies can start with a two-week AI Audit at a fixed $3,000. The exact shape is agreed on the free call.
An engineer who moves into your business and makes the AI work in your world, instead of handing you a roadmap and leaving. Ours are ex C-suite operators with at least one exit behind them. They build it, run it and answer for the results.
One operator with AI covers what used to take a small team. You get a single accountable name instead of a partner, a project manager and two juniors.
No. They take the work nobody wanted off them. Same people, higher value work.
High volume, rule based, already measured. Anything judgement heavy waits until one agent is live.
You do. Code, agents, accounts, documentation. No lock-in by design.
One function at a time behind a named owner, never company wide behind a memo.
