Who is a fit?
Venture-backed AI and ML companies from Seed to Series B with a sales-led or hybrid motion: founders still doing founder-led sales, first GTM hires, or revenue leaders whose SDR math stopped working. Not a fit: pure PLG with no sales motion, or teams that want rented SDRs.
What is a forward-deployed engineer?
An engineer who works inside your team and your systems, maps how the work actually moves, builds on the tools you already pay for, and stays until it runs in production. Then hands it over with a runbook and a named owner on your side.
What do you mean by applied AI?
AI tied to one named business process, running on your own data and systems, with an owner, a review gate and a number it is judged on. Buying seats for a chat tool is not applied AI.
What is GTM engineering?
Building pipeline as a system rather than a campaign: signals captured and scored with a reason, accounts enriched once, routing with rules, every touch logged in the CRM, and closed deals feeding back into targeting.
Can you get us into ChatGPT and other AI search answers?
We can measure it and move it, but nobody can promise it. Answers change from run to run and each engine cites different sources, so we track a panel of real buying prompts every month and report the trend next to pipeline.
Do agents send anything without a person?
You decide. Outbound email can go out after a second model checks it, once you have approved the rules and the first runs. Replies to prospects, anything that touches money, and anything below the confidence bar wait for a person.
What do you need from us?
About two hours of founder or GTM-lead time in the first week, access to your CRM and domains, and sign-off on the signal plan. After that you review the first runs and take the meetings.
Do we own what you build?
Yes. It is built in your Clay, your CRM, your n8n and your domains. When the work ends, the engine stays and keeps running, with runbooks and handover docs.
We already run Clay and outbound. Is this still useful?
Usually that is the most useful case. The Teardown maps what to keep, and the Sprint rebuilds the engine around it. Existing tools shorten the build.