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Forward Deployed Engineering

Your Forward Deployed Engineering team, live in days. Try it free for 14 days.

Techavtar's FDE team works inside your product, your tools and your sprint rhythm. Senior engineers who use AI tools to move faster, and review every line themselves. Don't like the first 14 days? Walk away and pay nothing.

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  • 25+ projects shipped
  • 8 industries
  • Your code, your IP
  • No outsourcing
A glossy white core with six modules around it, labelled STT, TTS, LLM, Web, App and Cloud: an engineering team deploying into a product.
  • NexaCalling AI
  • AI Sales Agent
  • Food Scan Genius
  • Naturally Good
  • POHPIH
  • CoociCoach
  • Nidaan HMS
  • KnectHotel
  • WheelsToVet
  • SpeakUp AI
  • AI Spam Calls
  • Townerr
  • Handyman
  • OIOT
  • Carvan
  • Task-a-Pro
  • Jobrooms
  • Spacely
  • AI Music Generation

The hiring gap

Your roadmap can't wait for a hiring cycle.

  • Hiring in-house

    Hiring takes months

    Job post, CVs, three or four interview rounds, the offer, then a notice period of up to three months before onboarding even starts.

    • Features slip a quarter while the seat stays empty

    With Techavtar: An FDE team in your standups within days

  • Outsourcing to an agency

    Agencies miss deadlines

    The work lives in their tracker, not yours. It's "almost done" until the deadline passes.

    • You see the code only at handover

    With Techavtar: A demo every Friday, code handed over every milestone

  • Fixed-price projects

    Budgets overrun

    A fixed quote turns into change requests and "out of scope" line items. The plan stays fixed; the bill doesn't.

    • You pay in full before you know it works

    With Techavtar: First 14 days free; on projects, the rest is paid only once it proves itself

The race to first commit

Same calendar, week by week.

Typical timelines, illustrative
Traditional hiring One engineer
  1. Job post
  2. Screening
  3. Interviews
  4. Offer
  5. Notice period
  6. Onboarding
  7. First commit · wk 16
Techavtar FDE A full team
  1. Kickoff call
  2. Team embedded
  3. First commit · wk 1
First commit
~16 weeks ~1 week
Who starts
1 engineer A full FDE team
Shipped by week 16
0 demos 15 weekly demos

What an FDE team does

Engineers who work inside your business, not beside it.

In practice

  • Daily standup in your chat or on a call
  • Tickets in your tracker: Jira, Linear or GitHub
  • Your sprint cadence, ceremonies and definition of done

In practice

  • Working software every week
  • A demo every Friday
  • Milestones agreed up front and tracked in the open

In practice

Add retries to the partner sync #142

OpenIn reviewApprovedMerged

  1. FDE engineer opened it: code and tests, built with AI tools

  2. Senior engineer reviewed it Looks good. One change: add a timeout to each retry.

  3. Senior engineer approved it after the fix

  4. Your repo merged into main

Illustrative

In practice

  • Everything lives in your repo from day one
  • Code handed over at every milestone
  • Nothing outsourced, no lock-in

Sprint estimator

Illustrative estimate

Pick what you need to ship and size the team. See how long it takes, and where your engineers spend the hours.

What do you need to ship?

More engineers than parallel tasks: the extra people would wait.

Without AI tools8working days
Techavtar FDE4.5working days
Saved3.5working days
Where the hours go76.7 h with Techavtar · 138 h without AI tools
Building, with AI tools 30.7 hSpec, senior review and QA 46 h
Sprint timeline
  1. Spec and API design: 3 days with Techavtar, 4.5 without AI tools
  2. Build the UI: 3 days with Techavtar, 5.5 without AI tools
  3. Tests and release: 2 days with Techavtar, 3 without AI tools
  4. Map the partner API: 2.5 days with Techavtar, 3.5 without AI tools
  5. Sync and webhooks: 2.5 days with Techavtar, 5 without AI tools
  6. Retries and alerts: 1.5 days with Techavtar, 3 without AI tools

Illustrative. Assumes 6 focused hours per engineer-day and one engineer per task. Engineers do every part; AI tools speed up only the build, 3x. Spec, senior review and QA take the same time.

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How it works

How we work: the same rhythm every time.

Four steps, the same on every engagement. Your 14-day free trial runs on exactly this rhythm.

  • 14 days free
  • A demo every Friday
  • Code handed over every milestone

  1. Day 0–1

    Brainstorming

    We sit with your team, understand the business goal, users and constraints.

    You get

    • Goal and success measure agreed in writing
    • Users and constraints mapped

    You do One kickoff call

  2. Days 1–2

    Milestones

    We break the goal into milestones you can see and measure.

    You get

    • Milestones you can see and measure
    • What ships in your 14 days, agreed

    You do Approve the milestones

  3. Days 3–4

    Planning and architecture

    We design the system, pick the stack and sign off the plan with you.

    You get

    • System design and stack
    • A plan signed off with you

    You do Sign off the plan

  4. Days 5–14, then every week

    Weekly delivery

    Working software every week, a demo every Friday, code handed over each milestone.

    You get

    • Working software every week
    • A demo every Friday
    • Code handed over each milestone

    You do Join the Friday demo

  5. Day 14

    Your decision

    Continue with us, or walk away and pay nothing. Your code either way.

Custom STT · TTS · LLM

Your own speech and language models, running in 14 days.

Our FDE team deploys custom speech-to-text, text-to-speech and LLM models for your use case. You test them in your real workflow. You decide. You pay nothing to try.

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Voice pipeline playground

Sample voices, AI-generatedIllustrative simulation

Customer: “Hi, my order hasn't arrived and the tracking page hasn't updated since Monday.”Plays sound when you press play. Captions are always shown.

  1. STT Speech to text

    Confidence 96%Latency 180 ms

  2. LLM Language model

    Sorry about that. Your order is with the courier. I've raised a priority check and will text you an update today.

    Latency 420 ms

  3. TTS Text to speech

    Speaking

    Latency 150 ms

Confidence and latency figures are illustrative.

Our work

We've shipped this before. 25+ products across 8 industries.

The 20 with public case studies.

Hover a project, or keep scrollingScroll to browse. Tap twice to open.

  1. 01 NexaCalling Human-like AI voice agents for inbound and outbound calls. SaaS / AI
  2. 02 AI Sales Agent Sales bot that cut lead response from 20 minutes to under 30 seconds. EdTech / AI
  3. 03 Food Scan Genius AI allergen scanner for shoppers with dietary restrictions. Healthcare / AI
  4. 04 Nidaan HMS Hospital management: patient records, billing, scheduling, pharmacy and lab. Healthcare
  5. 05 AI Spam Call Detects and blocks spam calls in real time. SaaS / AI
  6. 06 Naturally Good Organic farm-to-home subscriptions on web, iOS and Android. E-Commerce
  7. 07 Carvan Ticket booking for buses, flights and holiday packages. Travel and Hospitality
  8. 08 SpeakUp AI AI speech coach for pronunciation, fluency and confidence. EdTech / AI
  9. 09 Task-a-Pro Services marketplace with task matching and real-time bidding. On-Demand Services
  10. 10 Naturally Good Partner Delivery partner app: live tracking and automatic order assignment. E-Commerce
  11. 11 CoociCoach AI coaching with real-time video annotation and performance scoring. Sports / AI
  12. 12 KnectHotel Digital hotel stays: check-in, in-app services and guest messaging. Travel and Hospitality
  13. 13 POHPIH Hip-hop dance app with AI video analysis and a dancer community. Entertainment / EdTech
  14. 14 Handyman Home services app: AI matching, live tracking and digital payments. On-Demand Services
  15. 15 AI Music Generation Royalty-free music generated in seconds, with full creative control. Media / AI
  16. 16 Townerr Taxi business app: owners run their own dispatching and payments. Transportation / SaaS
  17. 17 OIOT Verified taxi and auto booking with SOS alerts and live tracking. Transportation / SaaS
  18. 18 WheelsToVet Pet care on demand: pet taxi, walking, handling, rescue and relocation. On-Demand Services
  19. 19 Jobrooms Job marketplace with video interviews and role-based access. SaaS / AI
  20. 20 Spacely Book private spaces for podcasts, ceremonies and events. On-Demand Services

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Clients

Don't take our word for it.

Our clients, on camera, about the products we built with them.

Try it for 14 days

We take one real goal of yours and hit it in 14 days. Then you choose.

Trial days used
0 of 14
Paid so far
Nothing
Your code
Yours

Day 0

Kickoff

Kickoff call, goal and success measure agreed in writing.

What you have by now

  • Goal and success measure agreed in writing
  • Milestones you can see and measure
  • A plan signed off with you
  • Working software every week
  • A demo every Friday
  • Code handed over each milestone

Day 14 Then you choose Opens on Day 14

Continue with us Keep shipping on the same rhythm.
Walk away Pay nothing.

Your code either way.

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Same 14-day trial applies to our FDE team and custom AI voice models.

App and web development

Pay half up front. Pay the rest only after your product proves itself.

Projects from ₹1,00,000

What do I pay?

Did the GTM test hit the agreed target?

Success measures (for example leads, sign-ups or orders) are agreed in writing before we start.

  1. Start

    25%

    Advance

    ₹1,25,000

    To start the build

  2. Delivery

    25%

    On delivery

    ₹1,25,000

    Product handed over

  3. Next 4 weeks

    4 weeks

    Real GTM testing

    ₹0

    Live business and marketing

  4. After the test

    50%

    Only if it works

    ₹2,50,000 ₹0

    Agreed success measures met

Your payments Paid so far ₹1,25,000

Paid before the market test

₹2,50,000

50% · Advance and delivery

Paid only if it works

₹2,50,000 ₹0

50% · Success measures met Target missed: nothing more to pay

Total paid You save

₹5,00,000 ₹2,50,000

100% of the project value, in three payments. You keep the product and the code. Total paid: ₹2,50,000.

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Short answers to what teams ask before they start.

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What is a Forward Deployed Engineering team?

Senior engineers who work inside your business, not beside it. They join your standups and sprint board, work in your tracker and ship to your repo. They build 3x faster with AI tools, and a senior engineer reviews every feature before it merges.

How does the 14-day free trial work?

We take one real goal of yours and hit it in 14 days. Day 0: kickoff call, goal and success measure agreed in writing. Days 1–2: milestones. Days 3–4: planning and architecture signed off. Then working software every week and a demo every Friday. On Day 14 you decide: continue with us, or walk away and pay nothing.

Who owns the code?

You do. Everything lives in your repo from day one, and code and IP are handed over at every milestone. Nothing is outsourced, and there is no lock-in.

How quickly can we start?

Tell us what you need to ship. We'll come back within one working day with a plan and your FDE team.

How does pricing work for app and web projects?

Projects start from ₹1,00,000. You pay 25% to start the build and 25% on delivery. Then four weeks of real GTM testing in your live business. The remaining 50% is paid only if the agreed success measures are met; those measures (for example leads, sign-ups or orders) are agreed in writing before we start.

What if the GTM test misses the target?

You don't pay the final 50%. It is paid only if the agreed success measures are met.

Do you build custom voice AI models?

Yes. Our FDE team deploys custom speech-to-text, text-to-speech and LLM models for your use case. You test them in your real workflow, and the same 14-day free trial applies.

Get started

Two weeks. Zero risk. Let's start.

Tell us what you need to ship. We'll come back within one working day with a plan and your FDE team.

Step 1 of 3: What you need

What do you need?

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