When training isn’t enough, we come and build
Airtribe engineers embedded in your office, on your systems, using AI to modernize what a conventional rewrite would take years to touch.
Forward-Deployed Engineering
Strong businesses, old systems
The code outlived its authors
Decades-old systems run the whole business, and nobody left can safely change them.
A rewrite means stopping
Conventional modernization asks a running business to pause for a multi-year IT project. That's a threat, not a plan.
Vendors quote, nobody owns
What legacy businesses need is a small senior team, on-site, shipping incrementally, with AI doing the archaeology.
Embed, understand, migrate, verify
Embed on-site
We work from your office, beside the people who run the system daily.
AI reads the legacy
Claude maps decades of code and data structures before anything is changed.
Migrate incrementally
A modern core built in slices while the business keeps running. No big-bang cutover.
Verify against reality
Every new report proven side-by-side against the legacy output your team already trusts.
Our first FDE assignment: a ₹300 Cr+ manufacturer
SKEI ICE CREAMS30 years of code, modernized on-site in Kochi
Orders, outlets, billing and payroll on a codebase started almost 30 years ago. Airtribe embedded on-site and migrated the core to PostgreSQL with Claude, verifying every report against the legacy printouts.
Read the full story →Who this is for
- ₹100 Cr+ businesses on legacy or homegrown systems
- Core software that predates its current team
- Leaders who want a 2.0 without pausing operations
- Teams that want capability transferred, not dependency created
Before an embedded engagement
How is this different from hiring a dev shop?
We embed on-site rather than working a ticket queue, we use AI to understand legacy systems at a speed conventional teams can't match, and we transfer capability as we go.
Does the business have to stop during migration?
No. Migration happens incrementally alongside live operations, with every slice verified before anything switches over.
What does an engagement look like commercially?
Scoped after an on-site diagnostic: we map the system, agree the slices, and propose a fixed scope. No open-ended time-and-materials.
Can FDE combine with training?
Yes, and it usually should: engineers modernize the core while your team goes through the Claude track, so your people can run what we built.
Forward-deployed engineering is scoped after an on-site diagnostic, with a fixed price and a named team. One engagement delivered, in production today.
The Skei story →Show us the system nobody dares touch
An on-site diagnostic is the first step. We'll tell you honestly what AI can and can't do for it.