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Right now. Not after the proposal, the kickoff or the ticket queue.

Forward deployed, from the inside

Your people are the forward deployed. We're the instant firm behind them.

  • Software licenses
  • Consulting fees
  • Managed services

All of it, inside your AI assistant.

Our AI Workforce does the work. Human experts are on call to answer your questions. All inside Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant.

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You can see a doctor in fifteen minutes, start a company in an afternoon, sign a contract in seconds. So why does a strategy still take eight weeks?

Calls. Proposals. Contracts. Kickoffs. Before any work begins.

With Forward Deployed, you ask where you already work, see the exact price, approve it, and the work starts.

Need support? It's in every token: one of our experts or your own, or another AI specialist, instantly.

Forward Deployed. The instant firm.

How it works

Ask. Approve. Get results. Get help.

  1. 01

    Ask

    In your own words, in your AI assistant.

  2. 02

    Approve

    See the credits it will use, and a maximum, first. 1 credit is $0.10. Nothing runs until you approve.

  3. 03

    Get the result

    Word, Excel and PowerPoint files land. You pay for what the job used; the rest is released.

  4. 04

    Get help

    Ask about your results or any outcome. Ask an expert for free, or go live on video with your team.

Your AI assistantForward Deployed connected
  1. Audit our finance function
  2. Forward DeployedPrice shown firstYou approve it before it runsApproveApproved
  3. AI WorkforceCollecting your team's answers. You review the interpretation before the package is built.
  4. Forward DeployedDelivered. Where AI and other improvements fit, each tied to your team's answers.ExcelPowerPointWord
  5. Which process should we fix first?
  6. Forward DeployedAsk an expert, free.Ask an expertExpert requested
  7. Human expertJoined your private room. Every step on record.Go live on videoLive now
  8. Live video · optionalComingYYouEExpertCYour colleague+InviteYour team, your guests and the expert: only who you invite.
Example jobs, in Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant.

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Get help

AI Workforce, with human judgment, as a service.

Our experts and advisors support your people; they don't replace them. Time with an expert is priced in credits and agreed with you before any time is billed.

How we help

Three ways in. Open one to see how it runs.

Process diagnostic Find out how work really runs, with your whole team. Surveys, voice interviews and live meetings feed one diagnostic, then a roadmap. How it worksHide the steps
  1. 01

    Ask in chat

    Pick the function and processes, and how many people must answer before any result shows.

  2. 02

    Invite your team

    Share one link or send personal invitations. Reminders go out for you. You see counts, never names.

    • One link
    • Personal email invitations
    • Up to 2 reminders
  3. 03

    Everyone answers

    One question at a time, on any device. In writing, or with a voice or avatar interviewer. Anonymous.

    A real survey question for a finance team: five answer levels in plain words, then a short box asking why.
  4. 04

    Meet live

    Up to 16 people on video. See how the room voted, where views split, and agree an answer together.

    The host's view of a live meeting: nine of nine answered, the vote spread, a high-disagreement flag and the button to record the agreed answer.
  5. 05

    Add the figures

    Process owners add volumes, staff and rates. “Not tracked” is never counted as zero.

    The data request form: volume, staff effort, loaded cost per hour and external cost for one process.
  6. 06

    Review, then plan

    You approve the interpretation. Then you get the heat map, process maps, AI uses and a roadmap in waves.

    The report's opportunities table and a roadmap in waves: standardise and govern first, automate once the basics hold.

Ways to run it

  • Everyone answers alone
  • Voice interviewer
  • Avatar interviewer
  • Live: individual
  • Live: collaborative
  • Live: moderated

See the whole diagnostic, step by step →

AI process audit Find where AI and automation pay off. Your team answers, you review, and you get ranked opportunities tied to their words. How it worksHide the steps
  1. 01

    Your team answers

    Questions for each role, at rapid, standard or extended depth: 5 to 30 minutes each.

    • Rapid 5 to 8 min
    • Standard 10 to 15 min
    • Extended 20 to 30 min
  2. 02

    You review

    Approve, edit or reject every finding before it counts.

  3. 03

    You get the package

    Ranked AI opportunities and a roadmap with owners, as Excel, PowerPoint, Word and an interactive report.

    A real AI process audit report: executive summary, counts and a process health heatmap.

See an audit, step by step →

Simulation Test a decision before you commit. A panel or a scenario answers first, so you learn before you spend. How it worksHide the steps
  1. 01

    Your brief

    A concept, a price or a decision to test.

    • Concept test
    • Pricing
    • Stakeholder meeting
  2. 02

    It runs

    A panel of simulated personas answers, or actors play a scenario round by round.

    A table of six committee members' stances across five rounds, moving from oppose to conditional to support.
  3. 03

    You get the report

    A decision brief, scores, who moved and what to do next.

    A real concept-test report: a 71 out of 100 strong signal and a decision brief.

See a simulation, step by step →

The brain

One brain for every engagement.

Everything you approve joins a living map, linked to the answers behind it and the processes it concerns. The next engagement starts from what you already know.

  • Only what you approve goes in.
  • Every finding links to its evidence.
  • Private to your organisation.

How the brain works →

One brain for every engagementEngagements such as a finance diagnostic, a procurement audit and an HR focus group feed answers, words and votes into a brain. Approved findings in it link back to that evidence and forward to the processes they concern.ENGAGEMENTSYOUR BRAINAPPROVED FINDINGSPROCESSESFinance diagnosticProcurement auditHR focus groupPain pointOpportunityRiskThemeCapture invoicesApprove invoicesExecute paymentsResolve exceptionsanswers, words, votes

See all examples → Finished business deliverables →

Before and after

Forward deployment, turned inside out.

Capacity, always on

Our AI Workforce

Does the work, with method built into every task.

On request

Our expert network

Approved specialists, brought in when it matters.

The forward deployed

Your people

Frontline and leaders. They lead, decide and win.

On call

Our expert staff

Forward Deployed advisors, in the same conversation.

Yours

Your guests and partners

Your own advisors, invited by you.

4 kinds of support behind 1 team, from the instant firm inside your AI assistant.

Meet the experts →

Outcomes

What you get done.

Whole jobs, from the first question to the finished files. 4 teams, 45 services, 5 practices.

See every deliverable →

Why we exist

We exist for one reason: your team's success.

Other firms send their people in, and your team ends up working for them: briefing, reviewing, chasing. We work the other way round. Your people lead, and the whole firm works for them.

You take the credit. That's the point.

Common questions

What people ask first.

What is an instant firm?

A firm you can put to work the moment you need it. There's no intro call, proposal, contract round or kickoff: you ask in Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant, see the exact price, approve it, and the work starts. Instant means you start right away; how long the work itself takes depends on the job, and you can bring in one of our experts, your own guest or another AI specialist whenever it helps.

How is Forward Deployed different from forward-deployed engineers or a performance-improvement team?

Forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) and performance-improvement teams are outsiders: they embed their people in your company to make the change for you, and your team spends its time supporting them: briefing, sitting in workshops, reviewing their output. When they leave, much of what they learned leaves with them. Forward Deployed turns that inside out. Your own frontline employees and leaders are the forward deployed, and we are the instant firm behind them: capacity, method and experts inside the AI assistant they already use. Your people lead the work, keep what they learn, and take the credit.

How does Forward Deployed pricing work?

You pay for the AI work a job actually uses, measured in credits, instead of paying for hours. Every job shows its price and a maximum before it runs, nothing paid starts until it's approved, and you're never charged more than the approved maximum. See indicative prices.

Who does the work: people or the AI Workforce?

The AI Workforce does the work. People advise, validate and sign off: your team leads, and Forward Deployed advisors or approved experts step in when judgment matters.

All the questions →

Get started

Ask for your first outcome.

  1. 01
    Add Forward Deployed to your AI assistant.

    In Claude, ChatGPT or any AI assistant, add this connector:

    https://forwardeployed.work/mcp
  2. 02
    Sign in with your work email.

    No passwords: a one-time code, then choose your organization.

  3. 03
    Ask for what you need.

    The AI Workforce prices it in tokens, you approve it, and it gets to work.

1 credit is $0.10. A typical desk research report is about 60 credits, never more than 150; the price and cap appear before work starts.

Private by design: only the people you invite see the work, and it never trains AI models. How we keep it private →

Connector address for your AI assistant
https://forwardeployed.work/mcp