Forward-deployed engineering partnerships
Integrated with partner-led delivery.
LockedIn Labs embeds senior forward-deployed engineers inside partner delivery teams to co-sell, solution, build, and transition production AI under the client’s real operating constraints. We work as an embedded specialist, lead a named AI workstream, co-deliver the program, or carry an agreed scope directly. Across every posture, the client receives one technical plan, one production bar, and one chain of accountability.
- Embedded specialist
- Client posturePartner-led
- LockedIn scopeAI engineering layer
- Named AI workstream
- Client posturePartner-led
- LockedIn scopeScope + acceptance
- Joint solutioning
- Client postureJoint
- LockedIn scopeDelivery + evidence
- Sponsored lead
- Client postureAgreed lead
- LockedIn scopeDefined AI program
A reusable delivery system for production AI.
We enter with reference architectures, integration contracts, evaluation patterns, deployment controls, runbooks, and an evidence model already in place. We fit that delivery system to the selected cloud and model stack, the partner’s method, and the client’s existing technology ecosystem.
- reusable engineering accelerators
Reference architecture, identity and integration patterns, evaluation harnesses, tool-control contracts, and release and evidence templates—adapted to the client’s approved stack and the partner’s solution architecture.
- the operating record
The evidence model that captures governed runs, human authorization, releases, exceptions, and source references as part of the production system.
- the production boundary
A named enterprise workflow configured against the client estate, with evaluation, human authority, deployment controls, observability, and operational handoff built into the delivery path.
- solutioning depth
Platform architecture, control boundaries, the evidence model and the deployment method enter the pursuit as known quantities. Joint solutioning concentrates on the client estate, workflow, industry context and operating conditions.
One production bar across every delivery posture.
LockedIn maps its engineering gates into the partner’s PMO, architecture review, SDLC, security, release, and service management model. The integrated plan covers qualification, pre-sales assumptions, system boundaries, owners, acceptance criteria, production readiness, escalation, adoption, and run-state transition. Our engineers work side by side with domain, product, engineering, security, operations, and change teams.
- 01Qualify
- 02Shape
- 03Commit
- 04Mobilize
- 05Deliver
- 06Transition + expand
At qualification, the account plan establishes account ownership, the client-facing posture, joint win themes, and the solution boundary. During solutioning, we baseline the integrated architecture, RACI, pricing assumptions, acceptance criteria, and run-state transition before proposal submission. LockedIn can operate within the partner-led client experience, appear as a named specialist, share the client-facing model, or lead a defined scope by referral or mutual account agreement. In every model, workstream ownership, decision rights, and acceptance evidence remain explicit.
Built for joint pursuits and partner-led delivery.
Engage LockedIn for co-sell and pre-sales solutioning, a named AI workstream, an embedded production team, or a mutually agreed end-to-end scope. We bring specialist AI product engineering, governed production capability, and accountable workstream ownership; roles are fitted to the partner’s account model, industry context, integration scope, and delivery footprint. The account plan defines the client-facing posture. Technical ownership, decision rights, and acceptance evidence remain explicit in every model.
- Embedded specialist delivery
- Senior LockedIn engineers work inside the partner-led delivery system, tools, governance, and communications. The partner remains the client-facing lead; branding, account ownership, and disclosure follow the approved contract and communications plan.
- Named AI engineering workstream
- LockedIn Labs is visible as the accountable engineering lead for a defined architecture, product, agentic workflow, evaluation, or governance workstream inside the partner’s broader transformation program.
- Joint solutioning and co-delivery
- Both firms shape the pursuit around one solution architecture, integrated governance, shared acceptance evidence, and a named escalation chain. Each party’s assets and delivery obligations remain clear through transition.
- Partner-sponsored delivery lead
- When a partner asks LockedIn to lead a defined AI production scope, we hold engineering and acceptance responsibility while the partner retains account leadership, executive sponsorship, commercial governance, and adjacent transformation or managed-service scope. The agreed account plan governs contracting, client communications, commercial boundaries, and expansion.
Joint pursuit
We shape the measurable client outcome, value hypothesis, solution architecture, implementation plan, production gates, adoption plan, and service transition before pricing. The pursuit pack includes the client-facing narrative, scope, staffing and RACI, assumptions, dependencies, acceptance evidence, commercial boundaries, and transition plan.
Delivery readiness
Technical, delivery, security, commercial, and continuity review follow the partner’s qualification process. Architecture, data and access boundaries, model and tool governance, staffing, release evidence, escalation, IP, and transfer terms are prepared for diligence.
Service acceptance
Implementation transitions into the partner’s or client’s run organization through service-acceptance criteria, operational readiness, runbooks, observability, incident and change integration, knowledge transfer, and an agreed continuous-improvement model.
Shape the joint solution before pricing.
We put the client outcome, solution architecture, delivery posture, system boundaries, responsibilities, evidence obligations, acceptance path, and service transition in writing before a joint solution is priced. The client receives one coherent technical plan while every team enters delivery with clear authority and accountable outcomes.
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