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Forward Deployed Engineering, as a service.
The gap between an AI prototype and production is a deployment problem. Sia embeds Forward Deployed Engineers in your teams to ship production code, integrate it into your environment, and stay accountable until it runs.
The Deployment Gap
Enterprises do not lack AI ambition or AI tooling. They lack the people who can make frontier models work inside fragmented data systems, legacy workflows, and regulated operations. Most AI programs stall exactly there: a convincing pilot, then months of integration debt, security reviews, and adoption resistance.
Traditional consulting hands over a roadmap. A Forward Deployed Engineer hands over a running system.
What We deliver
A Sia FDE is an embedded builder-doer, not an advisor at a distance. Deployed on-site or inside your cloud, our FDEs:
/ Scope against reality. They start from your data, your stack, and your constraints, not a reference architecture.
/ Ship production systems. Custom agents, RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, and integrations, written as production code with your governance and security requirements built in.
/ Drive adoption, not just deployment. Every Sia FDE pairs engineering with change management. A system that ships but is not used has delivered nothing.
/ Transfer the capability. Your teams build alongside our FDEs. The knowledge stays when we leave.
Engagement Models
/ Embedded FDE. A single senior engineer inside one of your teams, owning a system end to end. The fastest way to unblock a stalled deployment.
/ FDE squad. A small team combining FDEs, a solution architect, and a domain consultant. Built for programs that span several systems or business lines.
/ Forward Deployed Success. Our model for scaling frontier platforms across the enterprise: FDEs accelerate deployment while our consultants drive the behavioral change that turns tools into everyday business capability.
Engagements run in weeks, not quarters. The first working system is the first milestone, not the last.
Why Sia
Sia is an OpenAI Advanced Partner and a Claude Select Partner in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network, and works hand in hand with the teams building frontier AI, across model providers and clouds. We deploy the stack that fits your problem, not the one we resell.
Our FDEs are backed by 3,000 consultants across 19 countries with deep sector knowledge in financial services, energy, transportation, and the public sector. In regulated industries, that is the difference between a demo and a deployment.
Sia’s AI & Data unit brings hundreds of FDEs, Physical AI, Computer Vision, Operational research, Quantum experts, R&D labs, 600+ experts, 12 R&D labs, and a catalog of 1,000+ agents derived from real engagements. Our FDEs, representing 20% of Sia workforce, start from proven patterns and adapt them to your environment.
Our engagement ends when the system runs reliably and your teams own it. Not at the handoff deck.
Where FDEs make the difference
And what your organization should be paying attention to.
- Moving a GenAI pilot into production under security, compliance, and audit constraints.
- Deploying and scaling enterprise AI platforms (ChatGPT Work, Claude, Gemini, Copilot) beyond isolated use cases.
- Building agentic workflows on top of core systems: CRM, ERP, market data, regulatory reporting.
- Modernizing software delivery with AI coding tools, embedded in real development environments.
- Rescuing stalled AI programs where integration complexity has outrun internal capacity.
Get Started
Bring us one system that should be in production and is not. Within two weeks, a Sia FDE will scope it against your real environment and give you a build path with a working first milestone.