Most industrial AI never makes it out of pilot, because shipping is nobody’s job. At Apolo, it is someone’s job. A forward-deployed engineer is assigned to your account, ships the first agent into production, and maps the next workflow you are ready for.
Integration debt, security review limbo, nobody configuring the rules, nobody training the reviewers. The software was fine; the landing never happened. That is the failure mode forward-deployed engineering removes.
The FDE is bundled into the agent subscription. No time-and-materials, no statement of work creep.
One named engineer owns your account, from kickoff through production and into the next workflow.
The same people who build the platform put it in place. Nothing gets lost between teams.
On your documents and workflows: formats, acceptance rules, edge cases, who reviews what.
Into the systems you already run: ERP, Procore, document stores, identity. No middleware project.
The agent tuned to your specs, your rules, your thresholds, with security review alongside your IT.
Reviewers trained, audit trail live, and the next workflow mapped before the first one is done shipping.
Scope the workflow, get data access, agree what good looks like.
The agent runs on your own documents, not a demo dataset.
Your reviewers correct, the agent learns your conventions.
Cutover with audit trail live. Weeks from kickoff, not quarters.
What we need from you is deliberately small: a reviewer who knows the workflow, an IT contact, and a set of representative documents.
Each deployment teaches the platform your formats, taxonomies, and acceptance criteria. The first agent ships in weeks; the ones after ship faster, because the discovery is already done. That is why the FDE maps the next workflow before the current one finishes: the account compounds, and the engineer is how.
No. You buy a productized agent on a subscription. The forward-deployed engineer is how it ships and how the account compounds, bundled in, not billed by the hour.
Your data stays yours, in your environment. The configuration built for your operation serves your account.
That is the normal case. Discovery exists because no two operations run the same paperwork the same way.
The FDE maps the next workflow you are ready for. Most accounts expand agent by agent, on the same platform.
We will show you the agent that fits, and the engineer who would land it.