Forward deployed engineering

Embed a senior AI engineer. Ship in 30 days.

Sit in your repo. Leave a production system your team can run. Then stay, hand off, or hire. Not a chatbot SKU.

Diagnostic $5,000 5 days · credited to sprint
Ship sprint $22,000 4 weeks · one system live
Embed $26k / mo or $1,400 / day
Live: RoadWise PA Care Finder HealL Word of Life D&B AI / backend

You do not need an AI team. You need one engineer inside the work who can ship the first production use case before the quarter ends.

Hiring a senior FDE is a 60–90 day search at $200k+. Aetheris ships the first system in 30 days for a fixed sprint. Same motion Palantir sold — without pretending we are Palantir.

The engagement

One offer.
Three ways in.

Every deal starts with a scope call. Paid work is a diagnostic, then a sprint, then an optional embed. No unpaid builds. No brochure sites.

30d
One production system, not a prototype graveyard
9+
Years shipping at D&B, fintech, and healthcare ops
3
Packages only — RAG, revenue capture, or kill the spreadsheet
1
Engineer embeds with you. No bait-and-switch bench
What we ship

Three packages. No fourth until one is sold.

01

Internal knowledge that answers

RAG on your docs, tickets, and SOPs. Evals and a human in the loop. Not a chatbot toy that hallucinates policy.

02

Revenue capture on what you have

Qualify, book, and follow up on the site or CRM you already run. The Care Finder / RoadWise pattern.

03

Kill the spreadsheet

One ops tool in production: intake, dispatch, claims, shortlists, registrations. Your team stops living in a tab.

What changes

From a stuck AI project to something in production.

Before

  • The FTE search is still open
  • A vendor left a demo nobody runs
  • Knowledge lives in Drive and Slack
  • Ops still runs on a shared spreadsheet

After a sprint

  • One use case live in your repo
  • Your team can operate it without us
  • Success is a metric, not a slide
  • Option to embed, hand off, or hire
Proof

Shipped systems.
Not concept art.

These are live products Frezer designed, built, and operates. Click through. Inspect the work the way a VP Eng would.

How it works

Scope. Ship. Leave it running.

01

20-minute scope

Free. We pick one use case or we say no. If it is not shippable in 30 days, we will tell you on the call.

02

5-day diagnostic

$5,000. Written spec, architecture, risks, and a 30-day plan. Credited to the sprint. You own the document either way.

03

4-week ship sprint

$22,000. Frezer embeds. Weekly demos. Production in your repo. Then stay, hand off, or convert to hire.

The engineer

You hire the person
who ships.

Aetheris is Frezer Kifle. Enterprise AI/backend from Dun & Bradstreet. Full-stack ownership from fintech and healthcare. Client-facing delivery on live ops products. Not a staffing firm.

Frezer Kifle

Founder · Embedded AI / full-stack engineer

9+ years shipping production software. At Dun & Bradstreet: FastAPI/Django services, LLM features, and RAG on enterprise financial data. Before that: owned the Finbit backend serving three client apps, and healthcare systems in the field.

Python / FastAPIRAG + evalsNext.jsJava / Spring
LinkedIn

How we work

Your repo · your stack · weekly demos

You get the engineer on the problem, not a junior bench. Frontend help can be scoped in when the sprint needs it. Code, docs, and infra are yours from day one.

Fixed sprint priceNo unpaid pilotsHandoff required
Download the one-pager
Start here

Do you have a use case
that is actually shippable?

Book the scope call Open calendar →
Send after a call FDE one-pager (PDF) →

20 minutes. One use case. If it is not a 30-day ship, we will say so. Bring the stuck project, the open req, or the spreadsheet your team hates.

The hire can wait. The first system should not.