Forward Deployed Engineering

From ambitious idea to production system.

Olive Labs embeds experienced engineers with your team to solve complex AI, data, application, and cloud challenges. We work alongside your people—from discovery and architecture through deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.

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Embedded expertise. Production delivery. Measurable outcomes.

Engineering that works inside the problem.

Some problems cannot be solved with a handoff, a generic implementation plan, or software alone. Olive’s forward deployed engineers work directly with customer teams to understand the operating context, make pragmatic technical decisions, and deliver systems that create measurable value.

We combine product thinking, software engineering, AI, data, and cloud expertise in one delivery team. The goal is not a demonstration. The goal is a dependable production capability your organization can operate and extend.

How we work

One team from discovery through improvement.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the business objective, users, data, constraints, risks, and definition of success.

  2. 02

    Design

    Define the architecture, delivery plan, security boundaries, operating model, and measurable outcomes.

  3. 03

    Deploy

    Build, integrate, test, launch, and transfer knowledge alongside the customer’s team.

  4. 04

    Improve

    Measure real-world performance, optimize the system, and use outcomes to guide what comes next.

Discover
Design
Deploy
Improve

↺ loops back into Discover

Every engagement is designed around the customer’s environment. We start with the smallest useful production outcome and create a path to scale.

Capabilities

Production engineering across AI, data, applications, and cloud.

AI & Agent Systems

Design and deploy production AI applications, copilots, workflow agents, retrieval systems, evaluation pipelines, and human-in-the-loop experiences.

  • Generative AI
  • Agents
  • RAG
  • Evaluation
  • Guardrails
  • Model orchestration

Data & Analytics

Create trusted data foundations, real-time pipelines, analytical products, decision systems, and operational intelligence.

  • Data platforms
  • Pipelines
  • Analytics
  • Forecasting
  • Decision intelligence

Application Modernization

Modernize applications and delivery practices so teams can release faster, scale safely, and integrate AI into existing workflows.

  • Cloud-native applications
  • APIs
  • Containers
  • Integration
  • DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

Design reliable cloud foundations and production environments aligned with performance, resilience, scalability, and cost objectives.

  • Cloud architecture
  • Platform engineering
  • Reliability
  • Observability
  • FinOps

Databases

Select, migrate, and optimize data stores for transactional, analytical, vector, and real-time workloads.

  • Migration
  • Performance
  • Availability
  • Vector search
  • Data modeling

Security, governance, reliability, cost control, and responsible AI are built into every Olive engagement from the beginning.

Why Olive

Built for outcomes, not handoffs.

01

Embedded collaboration

We work directly with business, product, engineering, data, and security teams.

02

Production-minded delivery

Architecture, reliability, governance, adoption, and operational readiness are considered from day one.

03

Model and platform flexibility

We select the right intelligence and infrastructure for the task instead of forcing every problem into one tool.

04

Learning from outcomes

We instrument systems to understand what works and continuously improve their performance.

Engagements

Start where the problem is.

Discovery Sprint

Turn a high-value problem into a validated architecture, delivery plan, and measurable production objective.

Typical duration
2–4 weeks

Build & Deploy

A dedicated Olive team designs, builds, integrates, and launches a production capability with your organization.

Typical duration
8–16 weeks

Embedded Delivery Team

Forward deployed engineers work alongside your team across an ongoing portfolio of AI, data, application, and cloud initiatives.

Typical duration
Ongoing

Durations are typical ranges, not commitments. Every engagement is scoped to the problem and your environment.

Built for modern cloud environments.

Olive designs and delivers AI, data, application, infrastructure, and database capabilities for modern cloud environments. Our approach emphasizes secure architecture, production readiness, measurable customer outcomes, responsible AI, and continuous improvement.

Bring us the problem that does not fit neatly in a box.

We’ll work with your team to define the outcome, build the right system, and get it into production.

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