Who owns it
Each workflow needs a business owner who answers for its number, the people who do the work today, engineers who build in production alongside them, and security involved from the first build. An executive sponsor owns the sequence across workflows and the budget that follows the results.
What forward deployed means →Getting the CISO to yes →
How to measure it
Measure outcomes against the baseline every month: hours returned, cost per case, revenue captured, errors caught. Test each system on real cases, run it repeatedly, and keep one scorecard per workflow that the business and the builders both read. Benchmark scores say little about how a model will do on your own work.
How to measure applied AI →Why evals matter →
Train the people who run it
Roles change as agents take on routine work. Teams learn to supervise agents, review exceptions, approve consequential actions and improve the instructions their systems follow. Training belongs in the plan from the first workflow, alongside the build.
Fig Academy →
Where transformations stall
The common failures are strategy work that never reaches a build, pilots on separate stacks that each start from scratch, no baseline to prove value, security brought in after the pilot, and a roadmap tied to one model vendor. Each one is avoidable when the first workflow is built in production on the platform every later system will share.
Why AI pilots fail to reach production →
How Fig runs it
Fig partners at every layer of the stack. Strategy is set in weeks. Fig's forward deployed engineers build the first apps and agents on frontier models and put them into production on CosmOS. The company's rules, knowledge and evaluations then become part of the platform, and over time Fig trains models of the company's own. Fig Academy trains the teams who run it, and every engagement ends in running software measured against the baseline.
Transformation →Strategy →