Forward-deployed engineering

An engineer placed inside your organisation, on contract, to set the AI strategy and build the first systems that carry it. One measured step at a time, with your people and your systems.

Placements from £5,000, after an audit from £950

Who it is for

Companies that want AI doing real work in an operation and do not have an engineer in house to build it.

  • Leadership teams that have been told to "do something with AI" and want a plan they can measure, not a pilot that stays a pilot
  • Operations where the hours go on repeatable work: documents, queues, reporting, reconciliations
  • Companies whose knowledge sits in legacy databases, spreadsheets and file shares
  • Agencies and consultancies whose clients are asking for AI systems the team does not build itself
  • Anyone who wants each step priced and checked before paying for the next

What gets delivered

A placement ends with working systems your team runs, and the evidence that they do what the business case said.

An AI strategy written down

Where AI takes work off people, where it should not, and the order to do it in. Agreed with you before anything is built.

Measurement against a baseline

The audit sets the baseline. The result is tested against it and against the business case, not against a demo.

A hand-over your team can run

Documentation, monitoring and a named owner inside your organisation, with the next rung of the ladder agreed before the placement ends.

Inside the placement

The method is the same on every placement: find the constraint, architect the intervention, verify the result against a measured baseline.

  1. Audit and measure

    Map the operation, establish the baseline and quantify the gap. Decide where AI takes work off people and where it should not.

  2. Scope and architect

    Define the intervention, the system boundaries, the controls and the delivery path. Written down before anything is built.

  3. Build and verify

    Implement the system and test the result against the baseline and the business case.

  4. Hand over

    Your team runs it. On site or remote, depending on the work.

How an engagement runs

Three rungs. Each one is priced and scoped on its own, and each one is a sensible place to stop.

  1. Auditfrom £950

    Baseline the operation

    A short engagement on one operation. You get a written baseline and a scoped proposal for the next step. If the next step is not worth doing, you keep the audit and we stop there.

  2. Scoped value propositionaround £1,500

    Design the intervention

    The architecture, system boundaries, controls and delivery plan for the first system, with the business case it will be tested against.

  3. FDE full system integrationfrom £5,000 per placement

    The placement

    A forward-deployed engineer placed with your team to build, integrate and verify the system, then hand it over. Retainers from £350 a month keep it running afterwards.

Full pricing: audits, placements and retainers

Questions we get asked

What does a forward-deployed engineer actually do?

Works inside your organisation on contract, with your people and your systems. The job is to set the AI strategy, build the first systems, measure them against a baseline, and leave your team able to run them.

Who will we be working with?

Andrius Kvaraciejus, directly: on the audit, on the architecture and on the build. No account managers, no hand-off to a bench.

Do you work outside Milton Keynes?

Yes. Placements are on site or remote depending on the work. Recent work spans the UK and the Baltics.

Get in touch

Tell us what the operation is and where it hurts. We reply within one working day, and the first conversation is free.

Get in touch
Email
andrius@neuronet.dev
Phone
01908 040777
Office
Unity Place, 200 Grafton Gate
Milton Keynes, MK9 1UP