Forward Deployed Engineering
Deliver production-ready AI at scale with engineers embedded in your environment and accountable for outcomes.
Enterprises have invested heavily in AI, but running it in production remains a challenge. Rackspace Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with your team to help you reach production up to five times faster.
Ownership and accountability from build through ongoing operations
How we take AI from idea to impact.
Embedded teams of forward deployed engineers (FDEs) eliminate months of ramp-up and change-order cycles associated with traditional consulting. Our engineers make decisions in real-time, operate in live production environments and deliver working AI prototypes in as little as one to two weeks. The result is faster time to market and production systems that deliver measurable outcomes. At a high level, this is how we operate:
FDEs embed directly with your team to solve complex problems and build AI systems inside your environment from day one. They work within your tools, data and workflows, eliminating ramp-up time and avoiding generic approaches.
Each deployment creates reusable workflows, models and infrastructure that are captured, refined and applied to future systems. What is built in one environment strengthens the next, so value compounds over time instead of starting from scratch.
We operate these systems in production alongside your most critical applications, with full support and ongoing accountability. The work continues beyond deployment, with systems maintained, improved and scaled as requirements evolve.
Operate AI with accountability built in
Traditional software delivery relies on quarterly roadmaps and staged handoffs. Enterprise AI moves faster and requires continuous operation. FDEs embed in your environment, make decisions in real time and remain accountable through production and ongoing operations.
Speed to production: Workstreams run in parallel, so systems are built and delivered faster than in phased delivery models. Move from prototype to production in weeks, not months.
Embedded from day one: FDEs work inside your environment, aligned to your culture and constraints, with no ramp-up time or handoffs between teams.
Outcome ownership: FDEs are accountable for measurable business results and system performance, remaining responsible beyond go-live.
Value that compounds: Each engagement produces reusable ontologies, pipelines and workflows, so every system benefits from what has already been built.
"For technology support, our Rackspace team brought excellent AI experience. And they worked well with our internal engineers to execute the project and help us achieve our goals."See the Case Study
25+ years of experience operating mission-critical infrastructure. We’re built to run what comes next.
From infrastructure to enterprise AI in production, our depth shows up in the certifications our engineers hold, the platforms we're qualified to operate, and the environments we've kept running for the industries that trust us with their most critical systems.
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