Forward Deployed Engineering Practice embeds engineering capability directly inside your environment, shaped to your infrastructure, your compliance requirements, and the specific gap between where your AI initiative is and where it needs to be.
Lack of in-house technology talent and skills has been the number one barrier to digital transformation two years running. Only 1 in 5 leaders are confident their organizations are effectively building the digital and future-ready capabilities they need to keep pace. The models and roadmaps exist. What's missing is the expertise to connect them to your environment.
AI is easy to demo and genuinely hard to deploy. The gap between a working prototype and a production system is where most AI initiatives stall.
Built around your business. Delivered your way.
No two AI initiatives face the same constraints. We design the engagement around where you are, the right expertise embedded in your environment, structured to match your industry, your scale, and how much ownership you want to retain.
Embedded FDE
Engineering capability embedded inside your own team, working your systems and your data.
FDE Pod
A cross-skilled team owning a workflow end to end, from discovery through production.
Managed FDE-as-a-Service
Retained capability holding steady-state outcomes, with ongoing evaluation and improvement built in.
Best-Shore Delivery:
Onshore for regulated industries requiring proximity. Nearshore or offshore where speed and economics are the priority.
Why Akkodis
50+
AI and GenAI programs delivered
25+
Pre-built accelerators that reduce time to deployment
Pre-vetted
A bench of AI practitioners ready to deploy
Analyst recognized
Enterprise Innovator in AI — market impact, vision, and capability
