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Move beyond the prototype. Embed an engineer for production AI.
Put a senior, US-based Forward-Deployed Engineer inside your standups, repo, and AWS account to own security, scalability, and production readiness — without another full-time hiring process.
Choose a time that works for you.
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# the-problem
Give production AI a clear engineering owner.
Production AI work spans product decisions, evaluation, cloud infrastructure, and security. Choose an engineering role with explicit responsibility for the work your team needs.
You don’t need another headcount req. You need the work shipped. Embed a Forward-Deployed Engineer for the days you actually need one.
# capacity-tiers
Pick a capacity. Flat monthly.
Billed flat monthly, month-to-month. No hourly billing, no recruiting fee.
FDE capacity focuses on production AI, evaluations, guardrails, and the infrastructure that supports them. Need ongoing AWS delivery without an AI ownership role? Explore Fractional AWS engineering.
A senior FDE in your roadmap calls, code review, and AWS decisions. Review architecture and release decisions before they become expensive to change.
Hands on keyboard. Bedrock + AgentCore features land in your repo and your AWS account every sprint.
Your fractional Head of AI. Owns the agent architecture, evals, guardrails, and the cost line.
A dedicated senior FDE (or pod), full-time for a quarter or two. Hire them onto your payroll after — zero conversion fee.
# how-we-compare
Compare the working arrangement.
Compare these arrangements for your roadmap. On small screens, scroll horizontally to read all columns.
| Criteria | AppsTango FDE | Full-time employee | Independent specialist | External delivery team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Named engineer | ✓Meet the engineer proposed for your work | Interview for the permanent role | Meet the person assigned to delivery | Meet the actual delivery team |
| Relevant experience | ✓Review app, AWS, and production experience | Verify the experience your roadmap needs | Review work in the required specialty | Review comparable shipped products |
| Working relationship | ✓Your repo, your cloud account, agreed team cadence | Define role and onboarding responsibilities | Agree access, communication, and handoff | Agree access, overlap, and escalation |
| Capacity and cost | ✓Flat monthly capacity; agree the role and days | Budget salary, recruiting, and benefits | Confirm scope, availability, and rate model | Confirm scope, assigned team, and total price |
| Continuity and exit | ✓Month-to-month; agree notice and handoff in writing | Plan documentation and succession | Plan documentation and backup coverage | Confirm ownership, handoff, and support |
# specializations
Three streams. Pick the one your roadmap needs.
Production agents, not demos
Amazon Bedrock + AgentCore Runtime, custom MCP servers, evals in CI, Bedrock Guardrails on every output. The 80/20 discipline: a state machine where a state machine works.
Well-Architected infrastructure
CDK or Terraform in your GitHub organization, with practical cost guardrails, observability, and an architecture designed for production.
Your VPC. Your data controls.
For regulated teams: design private inference, data boundaries, and evidence-ready controls around the requirements your compliance team defines.
# how-it-works
Agree the role. Set the start date.
Free 30-min call
Zoom or our Lehi office. We find where you’re a senior engineer short.
Matched to a named FDE
A specific senior, AWS-experienced engineer — not a bench. You meet them before you commit.
Agree on a start date
They join your tracker, your code review, your AWS account. Work lands in your repo.
Review delivery each sprint
Flat monthly invoice. Adjust capacity or stop at the end of any cycle. The code was always yours.
# working-terms
Clear capacity. Clear working terms.
Month-to-month
No annual lock-in. Scale up, down, or stop at the end of any cycle.
No recruiting fee
No separate recruiting charge. The agreed monthly rate covers your engineering capacity.
Zero conversion fee
Hire your FDE onto your payroll anytime — we don’t charge to release them.
US-based collaboration
Senior US engineers. Agree on working-hour overlap, meetings, and communication before work begins.
# book-a-time
Build for production.
Meet your forward-deployed engineer.
Choose a time for a free 30-minute call. We will discuss the capacity you need, the engineering profile that fits, and a flat monthly option.
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