Forward Deployed Engineers who get AI into production.
HatchWorks AI embeds senior AI builders inside your business to identify high-value opportunities, build production AI systems, and help your teams move faster with AI.
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AI is everywhere. Production outcomes are not.
Most companies have access to powerful AI tools. Far fewer have turned them into measurable business impact.
The challenge is not just choosing the right model. It is knowing where AI creates value, connecting it to your data and workflows, and shipping systems people actually use.
That is where Forward Deployed Engineers create value.
A Forward Deployed Engineer is a senior AI strategist and builder embedded with your team.
They work across business, product, data, and engineering to turn AI opportunities into working software. Not slide decks, not disconnected prototypes, and not staff augmentation.
They help you move from AI ambition to AI in production.
Start with an FDE. Scale as value grows.
HatchWorks AI meets you where you are, with Forward Deployed Engineers as the starting point for production AI.
Forward Deployed Engineers
Senior AI builders embedded inside your team.
Best when you need to move quickly from AI strategy or experimentation into production. FDEs identify high-value use cases, build alongside your teams, and help create the delivery patterns to keep going.
Use this when you need- A senior AI FDE embedded with your team
- A faster path from AI use case to production
- Help connecting workflows, data, and AI systems
- More AI-native execution inside product, data, or engineering teams
Agentic AI Pods
Compact AI delivery teams that own outcomes.
When the work requires more than one embedded engineer, our Agentic AI Pods bring the product, engineering, and QA coverage needed to build and ship larger AI systems.
Use this when you need- A full team to build an AI product, platform, or workflow
- Multiple AI workstreams delivered in parallel
- Production systems with built-in validation and governance
End-to-End AI Transformation
One accountable partner from strategy to scale.
For organizations treating AI as a strategic priority, HatchWorks AI supports the full journey: strategy, roadmap, data readiness, delivery, governance, and adoption.
Use this when you need- Enterprise-wide AI strategy and execution
- A portfolio of AI initiatives tied to business outcomes
- Support across leadership, delivery teams, and business units
For organizations that need executive alignment, our Fractional Chief AI Officer offering helps prioritize opportunities, shape governance, and keep AI investments tied to business value.
Certified Claude Builders
Going all in on Anthropic and Claude?
For teams standardizing on Claude, our Anthropic-certified FDEs bring deep, hands-on expertise building production systems with the Claude model family, agents, and the broader Anthropic stack.
How FDEs create value
Find the value
FDEs embed with your team to understand your workflows, data, systems, and business priorities. They help identify where AI can create meaningful impact and which opportunities are worth pursuing first.
Ship the value
FDEs design, build, test, and deploy AI systems grounded in your data and integrated into your workflows.
Multiply the value
FDEs help codify what works, transfer context to your team, and create reusable patterns that make the next AI initiative faster.
Production AI tied to real workflows.
Forward Deployed Engineers build production AI systems tied to real business workflows.
Common outcomes includeBuilt to put AI in production
AI is all we do
HatchWorks AI is a pure-play AI transformation partner focused on getting AI into production and tied to ROI.
Built on GenDD
Our Generative Driven Development™ methodology gives FDEs a repeatable way to build with AI using human direction, AI acceleration, and accumulated context.
Certified partner ecosystem
As certified partners across Anthropic, Google Cloud, and Databricks, we help clients connect the model, cloud, data, and engineering layers required for production AI.
#1 Gen AI Solution Provider
Global Generative AI Awards 2024
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2023
Americas Top AI Company
Clutch 2024
engineers
Built for AI-native delivery
HatchWorks AI has built a structured certification pipeline for Forward Deployed Engineers, with 100+ certified engineers trained in GenDD, AI-assisted delivery, Claude, data and ML workflows, DevOps, architecture, and applied labs.
Put AI builders where the work happens.
HatchWorks AI Forward Deployed Engineers help you identify the right opportunities, build production AI systems, and create momentum inside your organization.
Common questions
How is this different from staff augmentation?
Staff augmentation adds capacity. A HatchWorks AI Forward Deployed Engineer adds AI execution capability. FDEs are embedded builders focused on identifying high-value use cases, shipping production AI systems, and helping your team build momentum.
Do HatchWorks AI FDEs only work with one model or platform?
No. The offering is model-neutral. HatchWorks AI works across the enterprise AI stack and brings certified partner expertise across Anthropic, Google Cloud, and Databricks.
When should we use an FDE instead of an Agentic AI Pod?
Use an FDE when you need a senior AI builder embedded with your team. Use an Agentic AI Pod when the scope requires a compact cross-functional team to own a larger product, platform, or workflow automation initiative.
Is this right for us?
FDEs are a strong fit if you have AI pilots that have not reached production, valuable data spread across systems, or product and engineering teams that need more AI-native delivery expertise.