Forward-deployed squad
When you need it in production. A 1450 squad owns an outcome inside your organisation: industry specialist, engineer lead, engineers and agents. We are measured on the result.
Start a deploymentOn site until it’s live.
Forward-deployed engineering puts the people who build a system inside your organisation, next to the people who will run it. Our squads bring industry expertise, product craft and AI agents, and answer for the result in production.
What forward-deployed means
We work where the problem is
On site, with the operators who live with the problem, not from a backlog of tickets.
We answer for an outcome
Every deployment is scoped around a result in production, not hours or headcount.
People make the calls
Specialists and engineers decide what gets built and review everything that ships.
Agents do the volume
Code, tests, pipelines and monitoring run in parallel, so weeks replace quarters.
Who is in a squad
Small, senior and complete. Every squad can take a problem from first conversation to production without waiting on anyone.
Industry specialist
Has worked in your sector. Picks the problem worth solving and sets the rules a system must never break.
Engineer lead
Owns the architecture and the delivery, and is your single point of contact from day one.
Product engineers
Design, build and review. They direct the agents and check every change before it ships.
AI agents
Write code, tests and data pipelines around the clock, then watch the system once it is live.
How a deployment runs
Five phases, from the first day on site to a system your team owns. Each one ends with something you can see.
Embed
week 0–1- People
- A squad moves in: engineer lead, industry specialist and engineers, on site with your team.
- Agents
- Get secure, scoped access to your environment and index your systems.
- You get
- A squad in place and access agreed with your security team.
Map
week 1–2- People
- Shadow operators and pick the problem with the clearest return.
- Agents
- Profile every data source and map each integration point.
- You get
- One problem chosen, with the return to expect from solving it.
Build
week 2–8- People
- Design, review and make the calls that need judgement.
- Agents
- Write code, tests and data pipelines in parallel, around the clock.
- You get
- A working system on your real data, shown to you every week.
Ship
week 8–12- People
- Harden, secure and train the people who will run it.
- Agents
- Run regression suites and watch for model drift.
- You get
- The system live in production, and a team trained to run it.
Hand over
week 12+- People
- Transfer ownership, document everything, stay on call.
- Agents
- Keep monitoring and report on the result every week.
- You get
- Code, models and documentation in your hands, with us on call.
Not an agency.
Not a staffing firm.
Agencies sell hours. Staffing firms sell CVs. We sell a working system in production, and answer for it.
| Software agency | Staffing firm | 1450 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you buy | Hours against a spec | Headcount | An outcome in production |
| Who shows up | Developers | CVs you have to manage | Specialist, engineers and agents |
| Where they work | Their office, your tickets | Your team, your management time | On site, alongside your people |
| Time to first release | Months of specs before code | Weeks of hiring and ramp-up | Weeks, with agents doing the volume |
| Who owns the result | You do | You do | We do, until it is live and handed over |
Two ways to work with us
Embedded team
When you need senior capacity. Vetted 1450 engineers join your own team and bring our agent tooling and delivery method with them.
Request engineersNot sure where to start? A two-week diagnostic maps your processes and data and ends with a ranked list of deployments and the return to expect from each.
Book a callQuestions we get asked
Bring us one process to fix
A 30-minute call with us. Leave with a clear view of what it would take to put it into production.
“We started 1450 to ship software that works. Forward deployment is how we do it for the region’s most important organisations: in the room, on your systems, accountable for the result.”