Forward Deployed Engineerswho ship AI to production.
Trida AI embeds Forward Deployed AI teams into your business to build and integrate tailored AI solutions on your existing tech stack, owning the outcome end to end until it's live in production.
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VercelIndustry signal
The forward-deployed model
just went mainstream.
It's exactly what Trida provides — forward-deployed engineers, now backed by billions from the biggest names in cloud and AI.
Jul 2026
Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry's latest talent obsession
FDE hiring is up more than 1,000% year-over-year as AI pilots stall without engineers who can ship inside a client's own systems.
Sep 2026
One of the fastest-growing jobs in Silicon Valley sends engineers straight to customers' offices to get AI up and running
The embedded-engineer playbook is now Silicon Valley's playbook — FDEs command six-figure pay to sit inside client teams and ship.
Jul 2026
Microsoft unveils $2.5B 'Frontier Company' to embed AI engineers inside customers
Microsoft is backing 6,000 embedded engineers with $2.5B — the biggest players are betting on delivery, not just bigger models.
Jun 2026
AWS launches $1 billion Forward Deployed Engineering unit to accelerate enterprise AI adoption
AWS followed two days later with its own $1B unit — proof this isn't a one-company bet.
Jan 2026
Global AI spend to reach $2.59 trillion in 2026
Enterprise AI spend keeps climbing — but most of it still doesn't survive contact with production.
Jan 2026
The State of AI in the Enterprise
86% of enterprises are raising AI budgets in 2026 — even though most still can't prove ROI.
The problem
Most AI projects
never see daylight.
MIT's 2025 State of AI in Business study found that 95% of enterprise GenAI pilots deliver zero measurable return. Not because the models are weak — because building AI that survives contact with reality is a different discipline than running a pilot.
The gap is execution. And execution is a people problem.
Staffing Agency
Headcount, not outcomes
In your repo, until it ships
Consulting Firm
Advice, sold by the hour
Solutions
What we deploy,
concretely.
For problems that live in the decision
Deployment Strategists
Senior operators in the room from the first scoping call — finding the workflow worth building, defining the pilot and its success criteria, and leading the engineers who build it.
Learn moreFor problems that live in the codebase
Forward Deployed Engineers
Senior AI engineers in your repo within a week — building RAG systems, agent harnesses, and the production infrastructure around them.
Learn moreFor problems that live in the workflow
Forward Deployed Specialists
AI-native operators embedded with the teams that run the business — redesigning workflows around AI and staying until adoption sticks.
Learn moreThe First-Win Pilot
One workflow.
Live in production in two to four weeks.
Pick the document-heavy workflow that costs your team the most hours — invoice intake, claims documents, order processing. Our forward deployed engineers build it inside the systems you already run, evaluated against a test set drawn from your own documents, so it is proven on your paper before your team relies on it.
01
Scoping call
02
Written proposal with scope and terms
03
Build and evaluate on your documents
04
Production handover — your team owns it
Blueprints
Open blueprints,
built like production systems.
Academy & Network
Open to the whole industry,
not just our engagements.
Trida Academy and Trida Network are open platforms — free to join and useful whether or not you ever work with us.
For engineers
Trida Academy
Free, self-paced certification built from real deployment work — pass the quizzes, earn a credential anyone can verify.
For engineers & companies
Trida Network
Academy-certified, forward-deployed engineers matched to open roles by verified skill — not a resume keyword scan.