Deploy — Onega Forward · Forward-deployed engineering
Deployed, not demoed.
Enterprise AI fails in the last hundred metres. Onega Forward owns them. Our engineers measure your workflow, build inside your environment, evaluate against the baseline you agreed and hand over a runbook. Forward delivers every Onega service, from AI consulting to agents, fine-tuning and modernisation, and every product deployment.
01 — Engagement formats
Five formats.
| Format | Duration | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Sprint | 2 weeks | Workflow map, measured baseline, data-flow map, risk register with AI Act classification, acceptance criteria, fixed-price pilot proposal |
| Practice assessment | 2–4 weeks | The same baseline-first method applied to a use-case portfolio (AI Opportunity Assessment), a model choice (Model Evaluation Sprint) or an application estate (Modernisation Assessment), ending in a fixed-price proposal |
| Deployment Pilot | 6–8 weeks | One workflow, agent, model or application slice, for one team, with one principal integration; evaluated on a holdout sample, supervised operation, handover pack |
| Forward Residency | Renewed quarterly | An engineer embedded two to three days a week; new workflows, integration ownership, quarterly value review |
| Operate and Improve | Renewed monthly | Monitoring, evaluation refresh, policy and model changes under change control, a named support channel |
02 — How we engage
Three commitments.
- 01
Baseline before build.
Nothing is deployed until we have measured the current workflow and agreed what better means.
- 02
Human approval where consequences are.
Every engagement defines what runs unattended and what needs a person. The default: AI proposes, people decide.
- 03
Hand over, don't hold hostage.
Configuration, runbook, evaluation results, known limitations, training and a stop option.
03 — Governance
Inside an engagement.
- Weekly 30-minute sponsor review
- Shared RAID log
- Stop conditions agreed in advance
- No production access before written authorisation
- Data-processing agreement and subprocessor list before personal data is processed
- Every AI decision during the pilot recorded with its evidence, and the record is yours
04 — Boundaries
When we say no.
- Open-ended “transform the company” requests.
- Workflows in high-risk AI Act categories.
- Pilots without an accountable owner.
- Production access before authorisation.
We offer a Discovery Sprint with a stop option instead.