Cohort Consulting Group
Our Approach

One team, synchronous value creation.

Forward Deployed Engineers in your business. Remote teams execute.

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The delivery model

A senior lead by day. A build team overnight.

Forward Deployed Engineer

A senior Forward Deployed Engineer owns your context, solution framing, and acceptance. The AI Delivery Cell advances validated increments overnight. One leader owns the engagement end to end. Backed by Microsoft Solutions Partner designations in Data & AI, Digital & App Innovation, and Infrastructure.

The role has a name: Forward Deployed Engineering. Palantir pioneered it and the leading AI companies now hire for it, because an engineer sitting inside the customer's workflow beats a handed-over spec. The Pragmatic Engineer explains the category well. Our difference is what happens after the day ends: a full engineering team advances the scoped work overnight. Read our take →

By day

Your Forward Deployed Engineer works inside your business: framing the problem, scoping the smallest valuable increment, holding the quality bar, and accepting the work. Requirements come from sitting in the real workflow, not from a handed-over spec. Every engagement runs in weekly sprints: each day is scoped in the morning, advanced overnight, and demoed the next morning.

Overnight

Well-scoped increments advance overnight in our AI Delivery Cell: an engineering lead who plans the night from your FDE's scope, AI engineers working with agentic coding tools, and a reviewer who gates what reaches your morning demo. Automated tests run on every increment, and the demo environment is rebuilt nightly, so what you see each morning is working software, not a status update. Increments, not whole projects: honest scope is part of the model.

The process

BY DAY Forward Deployed Engineer In your business: frames the problem, scopes each increment, accepts the work. Scoped increment, every evening Working demo, every morning OVERNIGHT AI Delivery Cell Engineering lead, AI engineers, and a reviewer build and test the increment.
Security and ownership

Your environment, your rules.

The overnight team never free-ranges in your systems. Access is scoped to the work, granted through your identity provider, and revocable by you at any time. Code lives in your repositories and follows your standards. Your lead reviews and accepts every increment before it reaches your morning demo. You own everything we produce.

Where every path leads

Wherever you start, you end in the same place.

An intelligent AI business, where AI is how the business runs, not a project on the side. Operationalize, modernize, or build: the paths converge at AI-Enabled Operations and finish at Intelligent AI Business. Start where you're ready; we will meet you there.

Operate AI in your team's everyday work Modernize Existing systems made AI-ready Build New solutions, proven on your data ONE DESTINATION INTELLIGENT AI BUSINESS AI is how the business runs, not a project on the side
Fixed prices, honest scope

Price agreed before work starts.

01 / EVERYDAY AI PRODUCTIVITY PILOT

Start with the people now

Fixed fee4 weeks

AI working inside your everyday work, measured. For leaders who want AI paying its way this month.

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Best when the business is

  • Early in the AI journey
  • Curious, unsure where AI fits
  • Building user confidence

Outcome

A practical view of where AI helps real work, and what to do next.

02 / AI DISCOVERY & ASSESSMENT

Define the solution now

Fixed fee4 weeks

Know exactly where AI pays in one solution area: the systems and workflows behind it assessed, every component priced and routed to modernize or build. For leaders wanting to implement change now.

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Best when the business has

  • Legacy systems slowing AI plans
  • No clear view of what is AI-ready
  • Execution waiting on a priced plan

Outcome

A fixed-fee roadmap routing each opportunity to modernize or build.

03 / AI STRATEGY SPRINT

Take a beat, build the strategy

Fixed fee4 weeks

One AI plan your executive team agrees on: where AI pays first, in what order, and why. For leaders who want direction before committing to delivery.

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Best when leadership needs

  • A structured AI plan
  • Business and IT alignment
  • Governance clarity
  • Use case prioritization
  • A 90-day roadmap

Outcome

A clear operating roadmap for scaling AI safely and intentionally.

How the money works

Every engagement is a fixed fee agreed before work starts. At the end of the engagement, the findings, measurements, and recommendations are yours. Continue with Cohort, proceed with another provider, or pause: the decision remains yours.

Why Cohort

Offshore firms can't sit inside your workflow. Boutiques can't staff the overnight shift.

You get both in one team: a Forward Deployed Engineer embedded in your business by day, and the AI Delivery Cell advancing the work overnight. One leader is accountable end to end, and the price is fixed before work starts. Progress shows up every morning, not at the end of a phase.

COHORT CONSULTING GROUP® (Reg. No. 8,323,098) delivers every engagement through this model: one senior lead accountable to you, one engineering team advancing the work, one fixed price agreed up front.

Ready when you are

Put AI to work in 30 days.

Three fixed-fee ways to start, every one ending with proof and a recommended path forward. Everything each engagement produces is yours to keep.

Put AI to work in 30 days
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We help define the business problem, confirm sponsorship, and pick the right starting engagement. If we are not the right fit, we say so quickly.