Forward Deployed Engineering as a Service

We audit your product to identify business problems. Then we solve them by optimizing the development process, automating manual legacy workflows, and integrating AI where you need it. Hire forward-deployed engineers with proper expertise and a results-driven approach.

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We Help You Move Forward When Your Product or Process Is Stuck

Some companies come with a clear problem in their product. Others have a goal, such as automation or AI implementation, but no plan. Our forward-deployed team works with both.

A product too complex to control

Years of new features and changes have left the product hard to follow. You can no longer say how its parts work or what a change will affect. Our team starts by mapping the whole product, so you can see what you have and where the risks sit.

Legacy technology that slows every change

The technology is old, and years of workarounds make every change slower and riskier. Our specialists work in your code and setup. We bring both to a state your own engineers can work with, while the product keeps running.

High product support costs

Keeping the product running takes more time and budget than it should. Our team finds where the support effort goes and works to bring it down. We report progress against a baseline, so you can see the change in numbers.

Missing system knowledge

Vendors were changed often, or there was never one shared knowledge base, so what people know sits with a few of them or is missing. We document the system step by step and pass the knowledge to your team, so it no longer depends on individuals.

Locked in with one vendor

One vendor built the product and controls it, but delivery has become slow or inefficient. We take over in planned steps, with documentation and a shared transition plan, so the product keeps running while control moves back to you.

Manual processes and no automation plan

You see manual work and disorder across your processes, but you have no list of what to fix first. Our team analyzes the processes, picks where automation pays off, and shapes the request with you before anything gets built.

No clear use case for AI

You want to add AI, but it’s unclear which tasks it should take. Our business analyst and engineers review your processes and data, then tell you where AI fits and where it doesn’t, before you spend anything on a build.

Excel-based processes and an unclear automation path

Your processes run in Excel, and you want to automate them, but the path is unclear. Our specialists compare a move to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product with automating your spreadsheets, judged on automation, flexibility, cost, and your operational needs.

What Your Forward-Deployed Team Covers

We review the code, infrastructure, dependencies, and documentation of your product. You get a clear picture of how it works, where the risks are, and what to fix first. All in a written report that your own team can use.

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Our Cases

Global hotel chain

Issue: A worldwide hotel chain ran on many legacy systems, and staff logged into every one of them each day.

What we did: Our team audited the systems and ran the engagement as an audit followed by a pilot.

Solution: We brought the data from all systems into one consolidated view, then merged the systems into one.

Result: The many systems became one, so staff work in a single place.

Health insurance software product

Issue: The product carried years of legacy and many one-off customizations that nobody could reuse. No single knowledge base existed, so even the founder couldn’t say what the product could do.

What we did: Our team analyzed the system and marked the points that needed optimization.

Solution: We proposed a pilot solution that targets those points.

Result: The product now has a clear map of what to optimize and a pilot solution ready to start.

Fire-safety company

Issue: The company calculated sensor quantities and placement by hand on printed floor plans, with a ruler, a pencil, and formulas.

What we did: We began with an audit of the manual process.

Solution: We built a proof of concept (PoC) with custom-trained Machine Learning models that calculate both for a given space.

Result: A working PoC replaces the manual calculation for sensor quantity and placement.

What You Gain From an Embedded Team

One accountable team for a scoped goal

You work with one team that owns a defined goal from the first audit to handover. Our specialists answer for the result. You don’t coordinate several vendors or chase answers between them, and you always know exactly who to ask when a decision or a problem comes up.

A business analyst working beside the engineers

Our business analyst defines your problems and needs, sets priorities, and compares options before the build starts. The engineers then work on a problem that is already defined, so effort goes to what matters and not to features nobody needs. Every option comes with a clear trade-off you can weigh.

Progress measured against a baseline

We record where you start, such as the effort that goes into support, and report progress against that baseline throughout the engagement. You judge our work by changes you can check at every review, using numbers from your own product. Progress becomes a fact you can verify.

Knowledge that stays with your team

We document the system while the work goes on and pass the knowledge to your engineers along the way. When the engagement ends, your team can run, change, and extend the product without calling us for every question. A departing engineer no longer puts the product at risk.

A start with little risk

We begin with an audit, then move to a pilot or PoC before you commit to a full build. The engagement rolls month to month. If the audit finds nothing to fix, you get your money back, so the first step costs you little.

Hiring and delivery handled for you

TechMagic hires the engineers and the business analyst, contracts them, and handles the logistics. Our team works in your environment and your tools. Your only job is to manage the team and keep in regular contact with it, and you don’t need a hiring plan or a recruiting budget for this goal.

Who Joins Your Team

A pod of engineers and a business analyst. Your forward-deployed engineering team is a pod of two to five engineers and a business analyst. Our specialists work in your environment and your tools, and they take on a goal that we scope together with you, starting from the audit findings.

From our side

We take care of all practical issues. TechMagic handles hiring and nearshore logistics, and our team is contracted by TechMagic, so you carry no operational obligations. You get engineers and an analyst who are ready to work, without recruiting anyone yourself.

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From your side

Your only responsibility is to manage the team and communicate regularly. You keep control over your management practices, tools, and workflows, and our specialists adapt to the way you already work instead of asking you to change it. Regular communication keeps priorities and feedback flowing both ways.

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How the Engagement Works

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1. Audit and discovery

Our team reviews your code, infrastructure, processes, and data. You get a shared picture of the problem and of where the risks sit before any build starts. Every later decision then rests on facts that both sides can see.

2. Report and proposal

You receive a written report on what we found and a proposal with priorities, options, and a plan. We walk you through both, so you decide on the next step with the full picture in front of you and no surprises later.

3. Pilot or PoC

We build a working proof on a narrow slice of the product. You see results before you commit to more. Our specialists use what the pilot shows to adjust the plan for the next stage and to confirm the approach holds.

4. MVP, scale, or product

We grow the pilot into an MVP or a full product, scaled to your roadmap and delivered step by step. Our team keeps security checks, code review, and testing in place at each stage, so quality does not wait for the end.

5. Support

Our team takes over day-to-day support of the product and finds where the effort goes. We report results against the baseline set during the audit, so you can see how the support effort changes over time and where it still goes.

6. Compliance

We build security and compliance requirements into the product from the start, so audits stay routine. Your team isn’t left to retrofit controls before an audit. Our specialists keep the documentation current while the product changes, so the next review starts from current facts.

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What Our Clients Say About TechMagic

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Trusted by 200+ happy clients

A. J. Arango

VP of Security and acting CIO

TechMagic not only holds the CREST certification, but also went well above and beyond. Before we even scoped the project, they did extensive pre-work to understand our needs. They covered everything we required — code analysis, cloud infrastructure, even control protocols — working quickly and efficiently. I highly recommend TechMagic to any technical organization serious about security.

Adrian King

Co-founder and CTO at Elements.cloud

I cannot express how impressed we are by the commitment and dedication of your team. The recent set backs are frustrating but we will work through them. The comments and enthusiasm from early users is really, really encouraging. We are building a fantastic product, with a clear need, and a huge audience.

Elements.cloud case

Seng Oon Toh

Chief Technology Officer at Huckleberry

The strongest points of TechMagic are communication, delivery quality, timeliness, and accountability. They can deliver high-quality products while maintaining cost-efficiency. They’re continuing to help us improve our product, and their QA capabilities cover about 90% of the app’s success. They’ve been doing a good job of delivering our requests to send more development resources.

Fréderique Pirenne

Co-founder and CMO at MyTelescope

This team comes back and tells us what we could improve, or they come up with workarounds. Sometimes we'll have to make decisions that might not seem logical from a development point of view but make absolute sense from a business point of view. The team will execute them anyway because it's important for the business. TechMagic is made of a team of critical thinkers who advise the business on which approaches are the fastest and most cost-effective…they do what's best for the business.

MyTelescope case

Matthew Akino-Wittering

Technical product lead at Acorn-i

We've been extremely pleased with our continuing relationship with TechMagic to develop solutions on top of the AWS stack. Their specialisation in the Serverless Framework and underlying Serverless Technologies has accelerated our product development. I'd gladly recommend TechMagic to my professional network.

Acorn-i case

Blake Cassidy

Chief Executive Officer at Bamboo

We interviewed seven highly recommended tech consulting groups and decided to use TechMagic due to their superior systems and processes. Thanks to TechMagic, we were able to experience a 700% increase in Bamboo active users due to the new features and capability they added.

Bamboo case

Axel Vanraes

Tech co-founder at Tiro.health

TechMagic has been a great partner in building this solution. They have been helping us both on the UX design as well as the product development. Building healthcare software is challenging because you both need a deep understanding of the clinical workflow. But on the other hand, you also need to integrate in the existing ecosystem of sometimes legacy systems. TechMagic has shown great flexibility when we had new product insights, when we were changing priorities.

Tiro.health case

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Industries We Serve

HealthTech

Healthcare products often sit on years of integrations and one-off customizations, and few people know the whole system. Our team maps the product, documents it, and modernizes it in steps while it keeps running, with security and compliance requirements built in. Our HealthTech projects follow the same approach.

FinTech

FinTech teams carry manual reconciliation, spreadsheet-based processes, and systems built by vendors who have since moved on. Our specialists find where the manual effort goes, automate what pays back first, and pass the knowledge to your team, working under the same security practices as our FinTech engineers.

EdTech

EdTech products grow by adding features fast, which leaves tangled code and thin documentation. Our team maps what you have, cleans up the parts that slow every release, and documents the system so your own engineers can own it and change it with confidence.

IoT

Connected-product teams often have a device on the market and a software layer that can’t keep up. Our team audits that layer, such as a companion app, a cloud backend, or embedded software on an old operating system, and modernizes it in steps. Read more about our IoT development services.

Your industry

Your sector isn’t listed? Our team works the same way on any product with legacy code, manual processes, or no automation plan. Book a call, and we’ll tell you whether a forward-deployed team fits and where we would start.

Tools and Tech Our Teams Use

Mobile apps

Our specialists use Kotlin Multiplatform for a shared iOS and Android core, and native iOS and Android apps where the product calls for them. Each product gets the approach that fits its devices and users and stays easy for your engineers to maintain.

Device connectivity

For embedded software and device communication, our team works with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), D-Bus middleware, and Linux with 5G connectivity. We rebuild old pairing and communication layers where they limit the product, as we did for VitalsBridge.

Cloud and IoT backends

We build cloud and IoT backends on AWS IoT Core for device commands and telemetry. We also use AWS with the Serverless Framework, Azure, and Firebase for notifications, chosen to fit the stack you already run, so you don’t have to change platforms.

Machine Learning

Our specialists train custom Machine Learning models for calculation and planning tasks that teams still do by hand. In our fire-safety proof of concept, the models calculate sensor quantity and placement for a given space.

Why TechMagic

Certified security practices

TechMagic is CREST-accredited for security services, and our processes are aligned with ISO 27001 and SOC 2. Our team runs security checks, code review, and testing at every stage of the work. The product you get back is ready for your own security team to review.

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Delivered work you can check

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Other Ways to Work With Us

Dedicated team

A dedicated team fits when you know what to build and need steady capacity for it. Our forward-deployed team fits better when the problem or the plan is still unclear. The two are different engagement models, and we can talk through which one matches your roadmap.

Project-based delivery

Project-based delivery fits a fixed scope with a clear end, and our fixed-price model suits it. Our forward-deployed team fits better when the audit has to find the scope first, because the answer changes what you build and how much of it you build.

Team extension

Team extension, sometimes called outstaffing, adds single roles to your team. It fits when you need one or two specific skills and already manage the work. Our forward-deployed team fits better when you want a team that owns a goal and reports against a baseline.