Forward-Deployed AI Engineering and AI Consulting | ForTheWeb

Forward-deployed AI engineering and consulting

Put AI to work across your entire business.

We build the systems, process automation and AI agents that move your business forward. Connect your internal tools, automate repetitive work and give every team new capabilities—from sales and customer support to finance, recruiting, research and software engineering. We take the work from strategy through integration, deployment and measurement.

When this is worth a call

In a company that grew one piece at a time, each office runs its own systems, and a person carries the work from one to the next. The cost shows up as retyping, chasing and reconciling, and customers notice it.

  • Requests arrive by email and get retyped into two or three systems.
  • Quotes, intake or scheduling wait on one person.
  • A change agreed in one office doesn’t reach the branch schedule or the bill.
  • Finished work waits to be billed while someone gathers the paperwork.
  • AI tools have been tried, and none of them made it into the daily work.

Build your company-wide AI roadmap

We examine how your business attracts customers, serves them, manages money, develops software and equips its people. Then we identify where AI, connected systems and process automation will create the most value and turn those opportunities into a build plan.

Then we agree with you on what to connect first and the numbers that will judge it. You can take that plan to your own team, or have us build it.

What leadership gets from the consultation

  • A map of how work moves between your offices and systems today.
  • The places it stalls, and what each one costs your team in time or errors.
  • The order of work: what to connect first, what can wait, and what to leave alone.
  • The numbers that will judge the result once it’s live.
  • Scope and pricing for the build.

How a forward-deployed engagement runs

We build inside your company, not from a distance. We don’t replace your systems; we connect them and put agents to work between them.

  1. Discovery

    We sit with the people doing the work and look at real examples. Together we choose where to start and the numbers that will judge it.

  2. Build in your tools

    Email, CRM, scheduling, field apps, accounting and the rest of what the company runs on.

  3. Review with your team

    Your people test it on real work. Approval points are set with you.

  4. Go live and measure

    The team is trained and signs off. Then we report time per request, turnaround, errors and exceptions from real use.

An office overlooking a truck yard, with two monitors, a phone and stacks of paperwork on the desk.

Illustrative example

What discovery looks for: the route to the bill

Follow one extra pickup through a dispatch office, from the call to the returned ticket and the bill, and see where a person carries the work between systems.

Walk through the office

AI agents for every part of your business

Give your teams AI that does the work: answers customers, researches prospects, processes invoices, analyzes data, supports hiring and strengthens your software. We build the agents, connect them to your tools and measure their performance on the work that matters to your company.

Win and serve customers

  • Customer support agents

    Answer tickets from your documentation, resolve routine questions and escalate the issues that need a person—with the customer’s context already gathered.

  • Sales research and outreach agents

    Find qualified prospects, research their businesses and write personalized outreach that gives your sales team a stronger opening.

  • Meeting and CRM agents

    Join calls, capture decisions and next steps, and update the CRM so your team can act without rebuilding the conversation from memory.

Run finance and daily work

  • Invoice processing agents

    Read invoice PDFs, extract the figures and push the data into your accounting software. Route missing or conflicting details to the person who can resolve them.

  • Browser agents

    Complete forms, book appointments and carry out browser-based tasks in the tools your business already uses.

Build and support software

  • Codebase Q&A agents

    Give your developers answers grounded in your actual GitHub repository. Retrieval-augmented generation connects each question to the relevant code and documentation.

  • Pull-request review agents

    Review proposed code changes for bugs and security issues, and leave actionable comments where your developers already work.

  • Incident response agents

    Read logs, investigate failure signals and suggest fixes so your team can move from an alert to a clear next action.

Equip your people

  • Employee onboarding agents

    Set up accounts, guide new hires through your documentation and move onboarding tasks across the teams responsible for getting someone ready to work.

  • Recruiting agents

    Screen resumes against the role’s requirements and schedule interviews, giving your hiring team an organized candidate pipeline.

Turn information into decisions

  • Data analyst agents

    Ask a business question in plain English. Get the SQL, charts and analysis that turn your company’s data into an answer your team can use.

  • Multi-agent research teams

    Put a planner, researcher, writer and critic to work on the same question. They develop the research, challenge the findings and produce a finished brief for your team.

Connect, measure and control AI

  • MCP connections to your internal tools

    Build MCP servers that connect AI agents to your company’s internal tools, records and services, with the access and actions each agent needs to do its job.

  • Agent evaluation dashboards

    Measure agent accuracy, cost and latency on real tasks. See what is working, where performance breaks down and what to improve next.

  • Agent guardrails

    Keep agents inside the permissions and actions you approve. Block prompt-injection attempts and risky tool calls at the point of execution.

What a person on your team approves

These are terms of every engagement.

  • Anything an agent would send to a customer waits for a person on your team.
  • You choose which other steps need approval.
  • A request with missing or conflicting details goes to the right person, with the context already gathered.
  • Every action is logged, with who approved it.

How pricing works

Engagements start with a consultation. Scope and pricing follow from what we find. Third-party software fees and ongoing support are scoped separately.

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