Fractional FDE
Forward-deployed engineers, without the full-time hire.
Your enterprise pilot is signed. Now someone has to make it work inside your customer’s systems, security review and data. Studio5 embeds engineers who own that, from first workshop to production.
01, Who it’s for
- 01AI startups, Seed to Series B, with an enterprise pilot signed and nobody free to deploy it
- 02Mid-market companies rolling out an AI vendor’s product internally
02, Signs you need one
- The pilot is stuck in security review
- Your engineers keep getting pulled off product to do customer integrations
- A renewal is at risk
03, What you get
- 01Workflow mapping with the people who’ll use it
- 02Integrations into the customer’s systems
- 03Agent logic and evals
- 04Security questionnaire and SSO
- 05Production cutover
- 06A written update every week
04, How it runs
01 · Weeks 1 to 2
Map
Shadow the users, map the systems, agree the one metric that defines success.
We sit with operators and document the real workflow, including the edge cases nobody wrote down.
02 · Weeks 3 to 8
Ship
Integrations, agent logic, evals and security answers, with a working demo every week.
Everything runs in the customer’s environment from week 3, behind their SSO.
03 · Weeks 9 to 12
Convert
Production cutover and adoption, then a clean handover or we stay on.
We track adoption against the agreed metric through to the renewal decision.
05, Pricing
Monthly fee, with an optional success fee when the pilot converts.
Quoted after a short call
06, FAQ
Can you work under our brand?
Yes. We sign an NDA and can work as part of your team, under your company name.
How much time-zone overlap do we get?
We agree overlap hours with US or EU time zones at the start, and keep to them.
What if the pilot doesn’t convert?
You keep everything we built and a written account of what blocked it. The success fee only applies on conversion.
Next step
Tell us what’s stuck.
30 minutes, no pitch deck. You’ll leave with a next step, even if it isn’t us.