Senior engineers and AI agents, embedded in your team.
Forward Development Engineering puts UFUIMI engineers inside your product team, in your time zone, working in your code, your tools and your rituals. They bring agentic delivery methods with them, so a smaller team ships more, faults get fixed sooner and the backlog finally moves.
Not staff augmentation. Delivery ownership.
Traditional outsourcing hands over a spec and waits. Handoffs across time zones turn a one-day question into a one-week delay, and the knowledge of how your system really works stays on the other side of the world.
FDE engineers sit forward, next to your product owners and your users. They own outcomes from discovery through production, and they pair every engineer with AI agents that write, test and review code at machine speed, under senior engineering oversight.
- Small, senior pods instead of large, junior benches
- Your repositories, your CI/CD, your security controls
- Knowledge captured in code, docs and agent playbooks that stay with you
Five ways we change how your software gets built.
Move offshore to nearshore
Transition offshore work to embedded, time-zone-aligned engineers without losing momentum. We run a structured knowledge transfer, shadow the current team, then take ownership module by module so nothing drops in the handover.
Accelerate product development
Agent-assisted engineering compresses the build, test and review cycle. Engineers spend their time on design and judgement while agents handle scaffolding, refactors, test generation and documentation, so features reach users in weeks, not quarters.
Retool and rightsize your team
We assess your team, tooling and process, then design the right shape for an agentic era: fewer handoffs, modern toolchains and a senior core multiplied by agents. Your people are upskilled alongside ours, so capability stays in-house.
Automate the backlog
Agents triage, size and work the long tail of bugs, upgrades, tech debt and small enhancements that never make a sprint. Every change arrives as a reviewed, tested pull request, and your engineers approve what ships.
Reduce recovery times from software faults
We cut mean time to recovery with better observability, runbooks and agents that correlate alerts, locate the faulty change and propose a fix or rollback in minutes. Fewer repeat incidents, shorter outages, calmer on-call.
Engineering you can audit
Every agent action is scoped, logged and reviewed. Your IP stays in your repositories, under your access controls, with clear approval gates on anything that reaches production.
From first call to a faster team.
Assess
We map your codebase, delivery pipeline, team shape, backlog and incident history, and agree the metrics that define success.
Embed
A small senior pod joins your team, takes ownership of a first slice of work and sets up agentic tooling in your environment.
Accelerate
Agents take on the backlog, testing and triage while engineers ship roadmap features. Progress is measured and reported weekly.
Hand forward
We transfer playbooks, agents and know-how to your people, then scale up, scale down or step back as you choose.
Outcomes, not hours billed.
Each FDE engagement is tracked against the numbers your leadership already cares about.
Lead time
Time from idea to code running in production.
Deployment frequency
How often working software reaches your users.
Backlog burn-down
Aged tickets, tech debt and upgrades closed each week.
Mean time to recovery
How fast service is restored after a fault.
FDE, explained.
How is FDE different from staff augmentation or outsourcing?
Staff augmentation adds hands; outsourcing adds distance. FDE adds senior engineers who are embedded in your team, own outcomes against agreed metrics and bring AI agents that multiply what each engineer delivers.
We already have an offshore vendor. How does a transition work?
We run in parallel first: shadowing the current team, documenting the system and building test coverage. We then take ownership module by module, so the handover is gradual, measured and reversible.
Does rightsizing mean replacing our engineers?
No. Rightsizing means the right shape for the work: removing handoffs, modernising tooling and giving your engineers agents that take on repetitive tasks. Most clients use the gain to ship more of the roadmap, not to cut people.
Is it safe to let AI agents change our code?
Yes, when it is engineered properly. Agents work in your repositories with scoped permissions, every change goes through tests and human review, and nothing reaches production without an approval.
How quickly can an FDE pod start?
Typically within a few weeks of the first conversation, starting with a short assessment and a first slice of owned work.
Bring your engineering closer, and make it faster.
Tell us about your team, your backlog and your roadmap. We'll show you what an FDE pod can do.