Forward Deployed Engineering · United States & India

Your team.
Our engineers.
Shared ambition.

Forward deployed engineers who work inside your environment to get production AI live fast — and build lasting capability in your team. Not a remote vendor. A dedicated deployment pod embedded with your engineers, led from the US, with a bench across Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

Deployment, made concrete

The operating handoff
starts with the first build.

01 / Discover

Discover

Agree on the workflow, source access, and acceptance criteria.

02 / Build

Build

Work with your team to connect data, models, and controls.

03 / Operate

Operate

Observe real usage, handle exceptions, and improve reliability.

04 / Transfer

Transfer

Deliver documentation, runbooks, and clear ownership.

Read the engagement process ↗
weeks
First use case → production
A working Company Brain pilot in three weeks. Infrastructure and robotics platforms in phased, milestone-driven months.
3–8
Engineers in your pod
Senior technical owners, sized to the problem — in your standups, your repositories, your systems.
end-to-end
Ownership
From the first integration to production to the handoff. Someone owns it from the inside.
→ The problem

Why AI gets stuck in pilot mode.

Most operators have already run the pilots — knowledge search, operations, productivity. The demos worked. Few reached production at scale. The models were never the problem. Implementation is: integrations across systems that were never designed to talk to each other, security and compliance constraints no brief fully captures, and production failures in environments nobody fully controls.

Getting AI to hold up in the real world is the hard problem. Someone has to own it from the inside. That is the job of a forward deployed engineer.

// how a pod works
FIRST USE CASE
pick_what_matters · scope_against_real_systems
PRODUCTION BEFORE SCALE
ship_it · not_a_demo
SOLVE ON THE INSIDE
data_access · governance · performance
EXPAND
next_department · next_property · next_fleet
TRANSFER CAPABILITY
your_team_builds_on_it
[ 01 ] Owns the outcome

Not the deliverable. The outcome.

The engineer who scopes it builds it, ships it, and operates it — and stays accountable until the system holds up in production. No handoff to a different team when it gets hard.

[ 02 ] Builds the integrations

Systems that were never meant to talk.

ERP, CRM, telemetry, document stores, control systems — integrated on your live data, inside your security and compliance constraints, in environments we don't fully control. That's the work.

[ 03 ] Earns the trust

Technical and organizational ownership, in one seat.

Managing the relationships, aligning the stakeholders, and earning the operational trust that makes deployment possible — because integrations don't ship without it.

[ 04 ] Transfers the capability

Each deployment makes the next one easier.

First use case to production, then the knowledge, the reusable integrations, and the runbooks go to your team — so the next deployment is faster, and increasingly yours to build.

01 · first_use_caseWe pick the use case that matters and take it to production before anything scales. A direct 30-minute first call; a concrete technical plan against your real systems within 1–2 weeks.
02 · solve_insideData access, governance, and performance issues get solved during implementation, embedded in your environment — the pod is there to work through them, not to file tickets about them.
03 · productionPhased, milestone-driven delivery. A working system in your hands, running on your data — not a demo on ours.
04 · operateWe run it while your team learns it. SLA-backed operation until it's stable.
05 · expandReusable integrations and accumulated context make the next deployment faster. Expand across departments, properties, projects, or fleets.
06 · transferStructured handoff — documented, with runbooks. Your team owns it and builds on it.

See the full engagement process →

→ United States

Infrastructure, robotics, and enterprise platforms.

US-based partnership leadership accountable for delivery, embedded with the teams that run physical infrastructure — where the data is noisy, high-volume, and the tolerance for a system that doesn't hold up is zero.

data_center_operatorsGPU cluster and colocation operators — rack onboarding, unified telemetry, agentic operations. EdgeTelemetry
telecommunicationsReal-time SIEM and network telemetry at carrier scale. T-Mobile.
robotics_autonomyRobot fleet replay, failure triage, and physical-AI data flywheels. Robot Ops
smart_citiesEdge perception and automated enforcement platforms across US cities. Hayden AI.
logisticsML routing and dock/container computer vision. Cargomatic.
manufacturingIndustrial IoT telemetry, predictive maintenance, quality inspection.
enterprise_platformsMultimodal AI, production RAG, and agentic workflows at scale. SponsorUnited.
buyersCTO · VP Engineering · Head of Infrastructure or Operations
→ India

Owner-operators, manufacturers, and capability centers.

India is one of the most AI-aware markets in the world — and most operators have run pilots that never reached production. Our team is on the ground in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, accountable for getting AI into production in weeks, not quarters, and for transferring capability to your own team.

owner_operatorsReal estate developers, hospitality operators, family offices — Company Brain as a three-week pilot on the customer's own Anthropic account. GHR Infra · The Cascades; a Best Western-franchised property.
manufacturingQuality AI and operational apps for factory networks. Maryadha.
financial_servicesNBFCs and financial-services operators — Company Brain with compliance and audit posture. Adjacent capacity.
capability_centersGlobal capability centers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad running data center, infrastructure, and data functions.
industrial_ecosystemDirect relationships across Indian manufacturing and the emerging space sector.
buyersOwner-operators & CEOs · CTO · COO
2
Regions · US & India
3
Products deployed by pods
7
Named deployments on /work
2018
Shipping since
[ Product · Data Center AI ]

EdgeTelemetry

Unified GPU, host, cooling, power, and network telemetry with automated rack readiness — and a Claude reasoning layer for autonomous diagnosis and remediation.

[ Product · Reasoning layer ]

Company Brain

A Claude reasoning layer over fragmented ERP, CRM, document, planning, and HR systems — every answer sourced. Three weeks to a working pilot, on your own Anthropic account.

[ Product · Robotics ]

Robot Ops

Replay, incident detection, and AI-assisted failure triage for robot fleets — raw MCAP logs become a labeled ML dataset. Built on Foxglove.

Plus custom builds across Data Center & Infrastructure AI, Edge & Perception AI, and Multimodal Enterprise AI Platforms.

// yours, not ours

We deploy on your cloud — AWS, or on-prem edge where the data lives — and where you want it, on your own Anthropic account with customer-direct billing. Claude is the reasoning layer across every deployment; DehazeLabs is a member of the Anthropic Claude Partner Network, and 10+ of our engineers hold Claude Certified Architect: Foundations (CCAF). Nothing we build locks you into us.

Claude AWS Bedrock · SageMaker LangChain · LangGraph Kafka · Airflow · dbt Redshift · Snowflake · S3 MCAP · Foxglove FiftyOne · CVAT Postgres On-prem edge
DehazeLabs' team's expertise in building, deploying, and managing AI agents revolutionized our network optimization and elevated customer service efficiency.
Director of Technology Innovation · T-Mobile

→ In production with

T-Mobile · Hayden AI · SponsorUnited · Cargomatic · GHR Infra · Maryadha · a US robotics operator (under NDA)  See our work →

[ FAQ ]

Forward deployed engineering — common questions.

What is a forward deployed engineer?
A senior technical owner embedded in your environment who owns the technical outcome end-to-end. They build the integrations, work inside your security and compliance constraints, debug production in systems they don't fully control, and don't leave until AI is running in production. Not a consultant with recommendations. Not a contractor with hours. An owner.
How fast does a first use case reach production?
It depends on the system. Company Brain, our reasoning layer for owner-operators, reaches a working pilot in three weeks. Infrastructure, telemetry, and robotics platforms run as phased, milestone-driven engagements over months. Either way, the first use case goes to production before anything scales — and you get a concrete technical plan within 1–2 weeks of the first call.
Is the deployment pod on site?
The pod is embedded in your team — your standups, your repositories, your systems — which is what makes the model work. US-based partnership leadership leads every engagement, with engineers across the US and our Hyderabad and Bengaluru bench. On-site presence is scoped to what the work actually needs.
Do you build on our own Anthropic account and cloud?
Yes. We deploy on your cloud — AWS, or on-prem edge where the data lives — and where you want it, on your own Anthropic account with customer-direct billing. Claude is our default reasoning layer; we stay model-agnostic where a workload genuinely requires it. Nothing we build locks you in.
How do US and India deployments differ?
Same pod model, different motion. In the US we embed with data center, telecom, robotics, smart-city, logistics, manufacturing, and enterprise platform teams, led by a CTO or VP Engineering. In India we work directly with mid-market owner-operators through the productized Company Brain motion — a three-week pilot on the customer's own Anthropic account — plus manufacturers and global capability centers.
How is this different from offshore staffing?
Offshore staffing sells hours. A forward deployed pod owns an outcome: the architecture, the production system, the operation of it, and the handoff — with US-based leadership accountable. Our South Asia bench is a talent and cost advantage inside that model, not a hand-off outside it. See DehazeLabs vs offshore AI staffing.
What does a forward deployed engagement cost?
Engagements are typically $300K–$4M over 3–24 months depending on scope. Well-scoped milestones can be fixed-price; end-to-end platform builds where scope evolves with what we discover are usually time-and-materials, which is a better fit for both sides. We'll be direct about cost in the first conversation.

Get your first use case into production.

Tell us what's stuck in pilot mode. In 30 minutes we'll be direct about whether we're the right pod — and exactly what it takes to ship.