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How we work

From business problem to working software.

Through Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), our engineers work directly with your business and technology teams—from problem discovery and co-design to agent or software development, integration, launch, and continued iteration.

Delivery stages

Four stages. Clear outputs. Shared decisions.

Whether GADE owns a project or adds capacity to your engineering team, each stage ends with evidence and a shared decision to proceed, adjust the scope, or stop before the next investment.

01Understand

Understand the business problem.

Work directly with business owners and users to map the problem, current processes, systems, and the outcome worth pursuing.

A decision to proceed—or stop early.
Deliverables
  • Problem, workflow, and user map
  • System and operating constraints
  • Business success and risk criteria
Decision gate

Decide whether the opportunity is worth taking into design—or stop before unnecessary build work.

02Design

Define the solution together.

Co-design the product with your team. Decide what software and agents should do, how they connect to your systems, and who owns each decision.

An approved system and control design.
Deliverables
  • Product scope and user experience
  • Software, agent, and integration design
  • Acceptance criteria and team responsibilities
Decision gate

Approve a build scope with explicit value, quality, security, and ownership boundaries.

03Build

Build with your team.

Provide hands-on engineering, develop the application or agent, connect real systems, and use feedback from your people to guide iteration.

A production-ready system with evidence.
Deliverables
  • Working application or AI agent
  • Integrations and validation evidence
  • Deployment and operating controls
Decision gate

Confirm production readiness against the agreed acceptance criteria.

04Operate

Launch and keep improving.

Support the move into live use, monitor outcomes, maintain the system, and deliver further improvements through an agreed ongoing scope.

An operating cadence and next decisions.
Deliverables
  • Operating support and monitoring
  • Shared development backlog
  • Improvement and expansion decisions
Decision gate

Improve, expand, or retire based on evidence from the live workflow.

One accountable partnership

Clear ownership keeps the work moving.

GADE works alongside business owners and your internal engineering team. We agree who defines priorities, who builds and integrates the system, and how reviews and ongoing support will work.

Your team leads

The business decision

  • Business context, users, and system access
  • Priorities and success measures
  • Decision authority and user adoption
GADE leads

Engineering delivery

  • Product and technical design
  • Agent and software development resources
  • Integration, deployment, and agreed support
Together we shape

A working partnership

  • Scope, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria
  • Feedback, reviews, and release decisions
  • Handover and continued development priorities

Built into delivery

Quality and control throughout the build.

Security, access, validation, and operating responsibilities are part of software delivery. AI projects also require clear model evaluation and human decision boundaries.

01

Data boundary

Approved data sources, deployment boundaries, and access permissions are defined before build.

02

Model choice

Models are selected by capability, sensitivity, latency, and operating cost—not preference.

03

Human authority

Approval, review, override, and final decision rights are designed into the workflow.

04

Evidence

Launch criteria are agreed early and monitored after the system enters operation.

Start focused

Start with the problem you need to solve.

We’ll help define the first useful scope, the engineering support needed, and how to work with your team.

Discuss your business challenge