Forward-deployed engineering / Built with your team
From a business problem to a system you can run.
Our engineers work alongside your team on Connect and Studio, with a defined scope, visible acceptance criteria and a handover your people can operate.
WITH YOUR PEOPLE / IN YOUR CONTEXT
The engagement
The work is only finished when your team can own it.
Build inside your own working environment. Review progress together. Make a runbook, knowledge transfer and an independently demonstrated change part of the handover.
Outcomes, not slideware: grounded in the products you already run.
With Swfte Connect
Cut model spend, kill vendor lock-in
A unified gateway tuned to your real traffic.
Route by cost and capability, add semantic caching, and prove a customer-specific monthly saving against a dashboard, not a marketing claim. Automatic failover across 50+ providers removes single-vendor outage risk.
Verified cost reduction
Tested provider failover
Centralised spend analytics
With Swfte Studio
Automate a real process, end to end
Production agents and workflows, not demos.
Document processing, ticket triage, data extraction, multi-channel support agents: built with golden test sets, guardrails, versioning, and rollback so the result is operable from day one.
Integrated with your CRM & stack
Evals + observability in place
Human-in-the-loop approvals
Every engagement
Built in your tenant, handed back
You own and operate everything we ship.
We build inside your own Connect/Studio workspace: never a black box we keep. Knowledge transfer is an acceptance criterion: your engineers ship a change unaided before we sign off.
No long-term dependency
Runbook + architecture docs
30 days of care included
A deliberate path forward.
Six stages with go/no-go gates, so neither side burns budget on a misframed problem. From the first call to a clean handback: typically two to eight weeks.
01 / Free · 30–60 min
Qualification
We confirm there is a named business problem with a dollar value, a system owner who can grant access, and a Connect/Studio plan in place. Output: a one-page Problem Brief.
Published starting-price and duration references. Scope, delivery dates and commercial terms are agreed in the engagement. Explore is fully creditable against any build booked within 30 days. Product subscriptions are separate.
We work fixed-fee by default. Where genuinely open-ended exploration is needed, day rates start at €700; the optional post-handback care retainer starts at €1,200/month. Connect cost-optimisation work can include a success fee on verified first-year savings.
Why us
How we compare to a typical AI consultancy
We share the embed-and-deliver philosophy of the best consultancies, and differ on what you walk away owning, how fast you get there, and how the relationship ends.
Dimension
Swfte FDE
Typical AI consultancy
Engagement model
Forward-deployed engineers building in your own tenant
Consultants build in their environment, then hand over a deliverable
What you keep
Connect + Studio: fully self-serve after handback
A bespoke build you cannot operate or extend without them
Pricing
Productised, published from-pricing in your currency
Opaque, sales-gated day-rate quotes
Knowledge transfer
Handback is a formal acceptance criterion
Ongoing dependency is the business model
Time to value
2–8 weeks to production
Multi-month engagements before anything ships
Getting started
Free Connect/Studio tiers: no demo required
Mandatory sales process before any access
Frequently asked questions
A Swfte engineer embeds with your team for a fixed window to solve one specific business problem on Connect or Studio, then hands the solution back so your own team can run and extend it. It is the bridge between self-serve software and full custom consulting.
Yes. The engagement builds inside your own tenant, so an active plan is required: Studio Team or above for Studio work, and a Connect Scale/Enterprise plan for gateway work. Explore can start while the plan is being provisioned.
Everything. We build in your workspace, never a black box we keep. You receive a runbook and architecture docs, and your engineers ship a live change unaided before we sign off: handback is a formal acceptance criterion.
Scale rolls forward-deployed engineering across multiple departments under one flexible, usage-based commercial model, with dedicated FDE capacity and shared governance, rather than re-quoting each team as a separate fixed-fee build.
Scope is gated and fixed against a written design doc, pricing is productised and published, and the goal is to remove the dependency, not extend it. Every engagement should leave you consuming more of a platform you control, not more billable hours.
2–8 wksto production
Fixed-feegated scope
You own itbuilt in your tenant
Have a problem worth solving in weeks?
Start with a fixed-fee Explore session. You leave with a design and a build quote, and no obligation to go further.