Forward-Deployed Engineering

We embed, we ship, we hand it back.

A Swfte engineer sits with your team, takes one real business problem, and ships a working solution on Connect or Studio in weeks — inside your own tenant, so you keep and operate everything afterwards.

2–8 wksto production
Fixed-feegated scope
You own itbuilt in your tenant
What you get

What you walk away with

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
How we deliver

A gated pipeline, not an open-ended retainer

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.

02
Paid · 3–5 days

Explore & Scope

Working sessions map the current process, data, integrations, and success metrics. You receive a Solution Design Doc and a fixed-price Statement of Work. Gate 1: sign or walk away.

03
1–6 weeks

Build

The engineer builds inside your own Connect/Studio tenant. Weekly demos and written status. Scope is fixed; change requests are logged and re-quoted, never silently absorbed.

04
3–5 days

Evaluate & Harden

Golden test sets, regressions, and guardrail checks for Studio; routing, failover, and cache-rate validation for Connect. Gate 2: the SOW acceptance criteria are demonstrably met.

05
2–4 days

Handback & Enablement

Knowledge-transfer sessions, a runbook, and an architecture doc. Your engineers drive a live change with the FDE supervising — that is what closes the engagement.

06
30 days included

Care

Bug fixes and tuning are included for 30 days post-handback, then convert to an optional monthly retainer or a call-us-back credit.

Engagement model

Five ways to engage

From a half-week Explore to ongoing Scale across departments. Each price is a starting point — the final fee scopes to complexity within the tier. Explore is fully creditable against any build booked within 30 days.

Explore

from €2,000
fixed · 3–5 days

Map your data, systems, and integrations. Leave with a design doc and a fixed build quote.

  • Data sources, models & access mapped
  • Integrations, APIs & systems inventoried
  • Security, compliance & access requirements
  • Success metrics + Solution Design Doc
  • Fixed-price, fully creditable build quote
Book Explore

Launch

from €7k
fixed · ~2 weeks

One workflow or one Connect setup, live in your tenant.

  • Single use case, one integration
  • Built in your tenant
  • Acceptance-tested handback
  • 30 days care included
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Solutionise

from €17k
fixed · ~4 weeks

A multi-step agent or multi-provider gateway, department-level.

  • 2–4 integrations
  • Evals + observability
  • Versioning & rollback
  • Team enablement sessions
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Transform

from €40k
fixed · 8–12 weeks

Multiple agents and workflows across a whole function.

  • Custom governance & policies
  • SSO, multi-region
  • Multiple production use cases
  • Optional ongoing retainer
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Across departments

Scale

Flexible
ongoing · across departments

Forward-deployed engineering rolled out across multiple departments.

  • Multiple departments & teams
  • Flexible, usage-based pricing
  • Dedicated FDE capacity
  • Shared governance & roadmap
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We work fixed-fee by default. Where genuinely open-ended exploration is needed, day rates start at €700; an 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.