Forward deployed AI engineering for mid-market companies
Most AI pilots stall before they reach production. We work inside your business, build one working AI process at a fixed price, and you approve everything before it goes live.
Free. A written answer from our CTO within 48 hours.
Milos Vujnovic, CTO.
Directing the engineering behind a 500,000+ user platform
for 10 years.
- 20+
- years in operation
- AI-first
- every engineer, not a separate AI team
- 500,000+
- users on a product we operate
- 10
- years with our longest client
OmniStreak is a forward deployed AI engineering team: senior engineers who work inside your business and ship AI into production, under direct leadership by the CTO, with a human approving every step before it goes live and every AI action logged.
Why do most AI pilots stall?
Most AI pilots stall because the engineering around them is missing: the integration into real systems, the guardrails, the review, and someone accountable for the outcome.
Gartner projects that 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, and 70% of mid-market deployments never leave experimentation (First Page Sage, 2026).
The AI industry solved this problem for itself with forward deployed engineers: people who work inside the customer's business instead of next to it.
For a company our clients' size, that market moved out of reach in both directions. A senior forward deployed engineer costs $200,000 or more a year, when one can be found at all, and the consultancies that offer the model as a service start at enterprise budgets.
- 40%
- of agentic AI projects canceled by end of 2027Source: Gartner
- 800%+
- growth in forward deployed engineer postingsSource: Paraform, 2026
- $200,000+
- a year to hire one senior forward deployed engineerSource: market rate, 2026
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How does a forward deployed AI team work?
- 01
Send one process.
The one that costs your team the most hours. You get a written answer from our CTO within 48 hours: whether AI can carry it, what a pilot would look like, and a fixed quote. Free, no call required.
Freea written answer, no call
- 02
The blueprint.
In one to two weeks we map the process end to end: a baseline measurement, the success metric the pilot will be judged on, the systems and data involved, the integration plan, the governance plan, and a fixed pilot scope. $1,950, credited in full against the pilot.
$1,950credited in full against the pilot
- 03
The pilot.
We build the process inside your systems in 2-4 weeks, at a fixed price, with written progress updates twice a week.
$5,000 to 15,000fixed price, staged against milestones
- 04
Approval-gated go-live.
Nothing reaches production or a customer without a human approving it. Every AI action is logged, and the audit trail is yours.
A human approval gate sits here.
Includedin the fixed pilot price
- 05
Measured acceptance.
The pilot is judged against the baseline from the blueprint, so acceptance is arithmetic rather than opinion. Then you keep the team on a monthly basis, or take the documented handover and stop.
from $4,000/momonthly, no long-term contract
What can the pilot build?
E-commerce and DTC brands
- A support assistant grounded in your catalog, policies, and order data, with human approval gates and full logging
- A subscription save flow: at-risk subscriber detection and retention automation
- Agentic commerce readiness: the feed, schema, and catalog fixes that make your store correctly visible to AI shopping surfaces
Coaching, course, and membership businesses
- A member Q&A assistant that answers from your own course content, with citations
- At-risk student detection and re-engagement across email and community
- A lead nurture assistant in your voice, with a human approving anything before it sends
B2B SaaS and digital product companies
- Prototype-to-production hardening of an AI-built feature
- A support deflection assistant grounded in your docs and knowledge base
- Internal workflow automation with approval gates: quotes, replies, reporting
What have we actually built?
AI delivery is our daily operating mode, not a new offer. 17 AI agents run our own company operations. A governed AI codebase workspace runs inside our 10-year client engagement, with every session logged.
Six production products have been built this way, architected and reviewed by our CTO with Claude Code as the execution engine.
- AI agents running our own operations
- 17
- production products built this way
- 6
- logged inside the governed workspace
- Every session
- every major launch, on fixed dates
- Since 2019
We have had the pleasure of working with the team at OmniStreak on several projects over the course of many years thanks to a word-of-mouth recommendation by a close partner.
They are consistent, reliable, meet deadlines, and always deliver quality work.
Nathan Johnson
CEO, Maison Bloom
Who controls the AI, and who owns the work?
- You own all IP, code, and configuration we produce.
- Your data stays in your systems. Our connections read what they need; nothing is copied out.
- Every AI action is logged. The audit trail is a deliverable.
- A human approves before anything reaches production or a customer.
- You know which named people on our team touch your systems.
- Your data is not used to train AI models.
Forward deployed team, FDE hire, consultancy, or automation agency?
Scroll the table sideways. The first column stays.
| Comparison criteria | Forward deployed team (us) | Hiring an FDE | Consultancy | Automation agency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | A working process in production, with accountability staying after launch | One senior hire, if you can find one | Strategy, a demo, a report | Workflows, usually without engineering accountability |
| Cost to start | Free check, then a $1,950 blueprint | $200,000+ a year, months to hire | $20,000-50,000 for a proof of concept | $1,000-30,000 |
| Time to something working | 2-4 weeks after the blueprint | Months | Months to production, if it continues | Weeks |
| Who is accountable | A named CTO who directed a 500,000-user platform | The hire, alone | The engagement ends at the report | Varies |
What does it cost?
Step 1, start here
Free process check
FreeSend the one process that costs your team the most hours. Within 48 hours you get a written answer from our CTO: whether AI can carry it, what the pilot would look like, and a fixed quote. Free, and no call required.
Free. A written answer within 48 hours.
Step 2
Blueprint
One to two weeks. The process mapped end to end: baseline measurement, the success metric, systems and data, the integration plan, the governance plan, and a fixed pilot scope. The blueprint is allowed to conclude that AI cannot carry your process, and you keep the document either way.
Step 3
Fixed pilot
One working AI process, live in your business in 2-4 weeks, judged against the blueprint's baseline at acceptance. Payment staged against milestones. The first two US clients get founding pricing at the bottom of the band in exchange for a written case study.
Blueprint to pilot: credited in full
Step 4
Embedded team
The team stays: the live process operated and extended, weekly written reporting, and the next process from your roadmap built each period. No long-term contract.
Blueprint to pilot: credited in full
APIs and platforms we have integrated
Common questions
We have operated remotely for US clients for more than 20 years, and one of our client relationships have passed the ten-year mark. Our working hours cover EST and CET every day. Distance has been our operating model for two decades, not a compromise.
The pricing is deliberate. A consultancy proof of concept at $20,000-50,000 ships a demo; our pilot ships a working process. We price the entry low because our first US case studies are worth more to us than the margin, and the price rises as they accumulate.
It stays in your systems. Our connections read what they need and nothing is copied out. Every AI action is logged, and a human approves before anything reaches production.
Nothing reaches a customer without a human approval gate, and the pilot runs on one process with defined acceptance criteria, not across your business.
You keep everything: the working process, the code, the documentation, and a handover written for your team. No lock-in and no long-term contract.
We do not ask you to know, and we do not ask you to believe us. The free check answers feasibility in writing, and the blueprint defines the metric a pilot has to move before you commit real budget. If AI is the wrong tool for your process, the check says so.
Send the one process that costs you the most hours
Milos Vujnovic
CTO, OmniStreak
I read every submission personally and reply in writing within 48 hours: whether AI can carry your process, what a pilot would look like, and what it would cost. If AI is the wrong tool for it, I will say that instead. If you would rather talk first, the reply includes a link to book 20 minutes with me.
- 20+
- years in operation
- 500,000+
- users on a product we operate
- 10
- years with our longest client