Who we are
Engineers, embedded.
Most AI firms advise from the outside. We work from the inside - embedded in your teams, on your systems, accountable for what runs in production. This is Forward Deployed Engineering, and it is the only way we work.
Why we exist
Every enterprise is being sold the same future: AI as a feature, priced per seat, locked inside someone else's platform. Accept that default and you rent your own capability forever - one vendor's roadmap, one vendor's pricing, one vendor's rules.
We exist to build the alternative: agentic AI that enterprises own. The orchestration layer, the agents, the skills, the governance - engineered on your infrastructure, run by your people, compounding in value with every agent. Not a pilot. Not a platform subscription. A capability that stays when we leave.
"Who owns the AI that runs your enterprise? If the answer isn't 'we do,' that's the conversation to have."
Forward Deployed Engineering
Inside, not alongside.
Our engineers sit in your workflows, your systems, your standups - not behind slide decks and steering committees. The business thinking and the engineering happen in the same head, at the same desk.
Production, not pilots.
Every engagement is scoped to something that runs - governed, observable, measured against a baseline. We consider nothing delivered until real work flows through it.
Forward, always.
It's in our name - avant. AI is not a project with an end date; it's a capability that must keep moving. We build for the pace of the field, so what you own today doesn't decay tomorrow.
Who we are
A team of engineers, architects, and operators, backed by Tquila. Everyone builds; every conversation starts at the problem, not at a discovery project. Our people have stood up agent estates for global manufacturers, life-science groups, and telcos; the lessons from every deployment flow back into the framework all our clients build on.
We hold strong opinions about architecture, sovereignty, and what "done" means - and we'll share them on day one, whether or not they're what you expected to hear.
Where we work
Berlin
Lohmühlenstraße 65
12435 Berlin, Germany
Bad Homburg · Frankfurt Metro
Basler Str. 3
61352 Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe, Germany
Boston
50 Milk St, 16th Floor
Boston, MA 02109, United States
Embedded with clients across Europe and the US.
For enterprises
One conversation. We map where you are, where the value is, and what to do in the next few weeks.
Book a working sessionFor engineers
If you'd rather ship production agents inside a real enterprise than write another proof of concept, we should talk.
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