Embedded Delivery Partnership
Senior Foundry practitioners inside your team. Standups, sprint cycles, workstream ownership from week one.
What this engagement actually is
The Embedded Delivery Partnership places senior Foundry engineers directly inside your delivery structure. They attend your standups, work within your sprint cycles, and own workstreams end to end. This is not body-shopping and it is not offshore capacity management. The engineers who arrive are fluent across the full Foundry stack: ontology design and governance, pipeline architecture, Workshop application build, AIP Logic, integrations, and production deployment.
The onboarding they need is into your domain and your systems. Foundry is not new to them. The ramp time that characterises most augmentation engagements does not apply here. The engagement becomes productive in the first sprint cycle, not after a six-week orientation period.
When this is the right engagement
This engagement fits when one or more of the following conditions are true: Your Foundry programme has reached production but the original build team has moved on. You need engineers who can take over at production depth, not learn from scratch.
You are scaling into new use cases or business units and the existing team does not have capacity. You need additional practitioners who can run parallel workstreams without supervision.
You are an SI partner delivering a Foundry programme for an end client and need embedded capacity that is already fluent. Your client cannot see or feel the augmentation.
Your internal team has Foundry exposure but not production depth. You need senior practitioners alongside them who can make the right architectural decisions under pressure.
How the engagement runs
What the engagement produces
Production output from sprint one. Workstreams owned and delivered to your definition of done, not a consultant's interpretation of it. Ontology and pipeline decisions made with longterm architectural awareness. Workshop applications built as operational environments, not dashboards. A clean handover when the engagement closes.
Who is doing this work
The engineers deployed on embedded engagements have delivered Foundry programmes in production: manufacturing, energy, financial services, and regulated environments where the cost of a wrong architectural decision is significant. They are not junior practitioners being developed on your programme. They are senior engineers who have already made these mistakes on someone else's programme and know how to avoid them.
See this model in practice
The Supply Chain Command Center was built under an embedded model. A European manufacturer with approximately $5B to $10B in annual revenue. The programme delivered $1M to $2M in estimated annual operational value.
