Engagement model · Forward Deployed Engineers
Engineers on your side of the wall.
Forward Deployed Engineering isn't a deck, a report, or a staff-aug body. It's senior Releaseworks engineers embedded in your team, in your repos, your standups, your incidents, shipping real systems and transferring the capability as they go. Three Pathways (AI, Security, DevOps) run the same four-stage model, so progress in one reinforces the others.
Where our engineers deploy
Three Pathways (AI, Security, DevOps), each staffed by Forward Deployed Engineers who work inside your team, on your repos, against your outcomes. They ship the platform, then transfer it. You keep the capability.
AI FDE
AI Forward Deployed Engineers
Forward Deployed AI Engineers who put AI to work across your whole delivery org (engineering, design, QA, product), with the platform, practices, and guardrails to make it stick.
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Security FDE
Security Forward Deployed Engineers
Forward Deployed Security Engineers who see the threats you're not seeing, shut them down faster, and leave your team defensible by design.
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DevOps FDE
DevOps Forward Deployed Engineers
Forward Deployed Platform Engineers who turn manual toil into compounding delivery. Paved roads, an operating model, and a team that owns it after we leave.
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The Pathways
Three Pathways. One way of deploying.
Same operating model across all three: engineers embedded, outcomes owned, capability transferred.
Pathway / 01
AI FDE
AI across the software delivery lifecycle, not just the IDE.
Most AI initiatives stall between demo and production, and most stay stuck inside the IDE. Our Forward Deployed AI engineers embed across your delivery org (engineering, design, QA, product, and delivery) and put AI to work with the platform, practices, and guardrails to make it stick.
Pathway / 02
Security FDE
Fewer threats. Faster detection. Less blast radius — every quarter.
Most breaches don't come from clever attackers. They come from unmonitored doors, unowned systems, and security bolted on too late. Our Forward Deployed security engineers work inside your team to see the threats you're not seeing, shut them down faster, and leave software that's defensible by design.
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DevOps FDE
From manual toil to compounding delivery.
Deliver software like it's a product, not a project. Our Forward Deployed platform engineers embed with your team and turn ad-hoc deployments into a reliable, observable, self-service platform your engineers actually want to use, then hand it over.
How our engineers sequence the work
Foundations. Consistency. Velocity. Mastery.
Meet you where you are. Ship the next stage with you. Leave you running it. The same four stages run through every Pathway.
Foundations
Stop the bleeding. Make the basics reliable.
Consistency
One way to ship, across every team.
Velocity
Self-service capability. Lead time in minutes.
Mastery
Compounding delivery. Increasingly autonomous.
Not sure where to start?
See where you stand. See what's next.
The Capability Assessment benchmarks your team across all three Pathways and tells you the highest-leverage moves for the next 90 days.