ShipProductionSoftware.OwntheOutcome.
Techseria's Forward-Deployed Engineering Pods give USA, UK, and European companies a senior technical owner backed by India-based developers — for AI workflows, ERPNext customisation, cloud delivery, integrations, and SaaS implementation backlogs.
The Problem With Most Outsourcing
Traditional outsourcing gives you developers who work from tickets. You write the spec, break the work into tasks, manage priorities, and chase updates. The coordination overhead lands on your internal team — and delivery is still slow because nobody on the other side understands why the work matters.
Traditional consulting is the opposite problem. Smart people, polished documents, well-structured recommendations — then the engagement ends. The slides don't become software. You've paid for analysis and left with a PDF, not a working system.
What companies actually need is a person — or a small team — who understands the business problem, designs the solution, writes the production code, handles integrations, and takes responsibility for getting it live. That's a forward-deployed engineer.
What a Forward-Deployed Engineer Does
Works Inside Your Environment
- Embedded in your tools — Slack, Teams, Jira, GitHub — not behind an account manager
- Joins stakeholder calls, product reviews, and sprint planning as a full participant
- Communicates directly with your team in real time
Owns the Technical Solution
- Translates business requirements into technical architecture without hand-holding
- Makes day-to-day technical decisions independently — database design, API contracts, deployment approach
- Flags trade-offs and risks early, with clear options and a recommended path
Ships Production-Ready Work
- Delivers working software in weekly sprints, not quarterly releases
- Every sprint ends with a working demo — code goes to production
- Written weekly progress report covering what shipped, what's next, and what's blocked
What We Deliver
- AI workflow implementation and deployment
- SaaS customer implementation support
- API and third-party integrations
- ERPNext / Frappe customisation
- Internal tools and admin portals
- Data pipelines and dashboards
- RAG and Document AI systems
- Cloud deployment and DevOps support
Who This Is For
SaaS companies with implementation backlogs — customers waiting 8–12 weeks for go-live and an internal team that is stretched. Mid-market companies adopting AI who need engineering depth to build real workflows. UK and EU companies running ERPNext who need affordable senior engineers. Startups and scale-ups without a CTO who need a senior technical owner without hiring at £120k+.
How It Works
1. Fit call — 30 minutes. Direct conversation to work out whether an FDE pod is the right shape for the work.
2. Pod design — we recommend the right mix of skills: solution engineer, full-stack developer, QA, data engineer, or AI specialist.
3. First 2-week sprint — prove delivery speed and communication quality. Working software by end of week two.
4. Monthly delivery rhythm — the pod joins your key calls, runs weekly sprints, delivers working demos every Friday, and sends a written report every week.
Pricing
Starter FDE Pod — From £7,500/month
One senior solution engineer plus one developer. Best for projects with clear scope needing a single technical owner and execution support. Includes sprint planning, weekly demo, weekly report, direct Slack access, and UK business-hours overlap.
Growth FDE Pod — £12,000–£18,000/month
One senior solution engineer plus two developers and shared QA. Handles larger implementation backlogs, multi-system integrations, or parallel workstreams. Includes everything in Starter plus dedicated QA and stakeholder reporting.
Enterprise FDE Pod — From £25,000/month
Full delivery team: solution architect, two to four developers, QA, and a delivery lead. For ERP migrations, large AI programmes, or multi-product SaaS implementations. Includes delivery lead, architecture review, and security documentation.
All pricing is fixed-fee per month. No surprise invoices for overtime or scope creep within agreed sprint commitments.
Why Techseria
- 15 years of engineering delivery across AI, ERP, cloud, and full-stack since 2009
- Microsoft Solution Partner — recognised for consistent delivery quality
- Senior-only engineers — minimum five years of production delivery experience
- Fixed-fee delivery experience — we scope correctly and communicate changes early
- India-based costs with UK and EU delivery discipline
- Full-stack capability across AI, ERP, Azure, React, Node.js, and Flutter
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to Ship Software That Actually Gets to Production?
Most companies don't have an ideas problem — they have a delivery problem. Book a 30-minute fit call and we'll tell you within that conversation whether an FDE pod is the right fit and what it should look like for your project.