FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER
Intelligence is no longer scarce. Results are.
Intelligence is no longer scarce. Results are.
Every competitor you have can buy the same models you can. What almost nobody has is the ability to land them inside a real operation. A Sunburnt Forward Deployed Engineer sits in your business and does exactly that.
Every competitor you have can buy the same models you can. What almost nobody has is the ability to land them inside a real operation. A Sunburnt Forward Deployed Engineer sits in your business and does exactly that.
THE GAP NOBODY SELLS YOU
Forward Deployed Engineers rebuild your business around AI agents.
Forward Deployed Engineers rebuild your business around AI agents.
A demo runs on clean data, in a controlled environment, in front of an audience that wants it to succeed. A result has to survive your systems, your people, and a Tuesday. Everything below is what it takes to cross that distance.
A demo runs on clean data, in a controlled environment, in front of an audience that wants it to succeed. A result has to survive your systems, your people, and a Tuesday. Everything below is what it takes to cross that distance.
A demo runs on clean data, in a controlled environment, in front of an audience that wants it to succeed. A result has to survive your systems, your people, and a Tuesday. Everything below is what it takes to cross that distance.
AI automation turns smarter technology into real business results.
AI automation turns smarter technology into real business results.
Our AI solutions streamline business processes, automate repetitive tasks, and help your team achieve measurable results.
Our AI solutions streamline business processes, automate repetitive tasks, and help your team achieve measurable results.
Data
Wired into your systems of record, with their gaps and their history not a curated sample set.
Systems
Running in production inside your environment, under the security model you already answer for.
People
Adopted by the teams who do the work because they helped shape it rather than receiving it.
Outcomes
Measured on numbers your business already tracks, not on a dashboard we invented for the occasion.
THE ROLE
One team that owns the outcome from boardroom to operation.
One team that owns the outcome from boardroom to operation.
Forward deployed engineering is how the strongest AI firms in the world work: place a senior operator engineer inside the client's business rather than behind a scope document. It is the shortest path we know between executive intent and a change your P&L can see.
01
Understands the business before the technology
Understands the business before the technology
Time with your operators, your numbers, and your constraints comes first. The work targets margin, cycle time, capacity, and risk not whichever use case is fashionable.
02
Builds and deploys, not just advises
Builds and deploys, not just advises
One person carries an opportunity from the executive conversation through to systems running in production. Nothing is lost in translation between advisor, vendor, and internal IT.
03
Leaves capability behind, not a dependency
Leaves capability behind, not a dependency
Your people are brought into every build. The engagement ends with your team owning the systems, the controls, and the judgement to keep going without us.
HOW WE WORK
We don’t do AI pilots.We do deployments.
We don’t do AI pilots.We do deployments.
Forward deployed engineers rebuild your business around AI agents. A pilot proves a thing is possible, your business already knows it’s possible. The question is whether it runs reliably.
Forward deployed engineers rebuild your business around AI agents. A pilot proves a thing is possible, your business already knows it’s possible. The question is whether it runs reliably.
Inside your operation
Inside your operation
On site with your people, in your systems not reporting in from a delivery centre.
On site with your people, in your systems not reporting in from a delivery centre.
Outcomes in days
Outcomes in days
One workflow live early, so the value is visible before the budget conversation.
One workflow live early, so the value is visible before the budget conversation.
Paid on what delivers
Paid on what delivers
Commercials tied to the outcome you agreed to, not the hours it took us.
Commercials tied to the outcome you agreed to, not the hours it took us.
AI champions
Six things an embedded engineer does that a vendor cannot.
Six things an embedded engineer does that a vendor cannot.
Six things an embedded engineer does that a vendor cannot.
Choose the few things worth doing
Choose the few things worth doing
Opportunities ranked by value, effort, and risk with the ones that don't clear the bar named out loud, so your budget goes where the return is.
01
Build it into live operations
Build it into live operations
Agents, copilots, and automations running on your real data, inside your environment, used by the people whose day they're meant to change.
Agents, copilots, and automations running on your real data, inside your environment, used by the people whose day they're meant to change.
02
Remove the translation layer
Remove the translation layer
The same person sits in the leadership meeting and does the work. No requirements relay between advisor, vendor, and internal IT and nothing lost along the way.
The same person sits in the leadership meeting and does the work. No requirements relay between advisor, vendor, and internal IT and nothing lost along the way.
03
Prove the commercial case
Prove the commercial case
A baseline agreed before the build, and results measured against it. You are shown hours returned, cost removed, or capacity released not adoption charts.
A baseline agreed before the build, and results measured against it. You are shown hours returned, cost removed, or capacity released not adoption charts.
04
Make your team the owner
Make your team the owner
Controls, documentation, and paired work throughout, so the systems, the guardrails, and the judgement behind them stay with your people when we step back.
Controls, documentation, and paired work throughout, so the systems, the guardrails, and the judgement behind them stay with your people when we step back.
Recognised & Trusted.
Proudly listed by leading industry authorities
WHERE TO START
We help bridge the last mile from AI capability to outcome
We help bridge the last mile from AI capability to outcome
You don’t need a transformation program to start. Pick the one workflow where AI should already be working and isn’t the quote that takes three days, the claim that gets re keyed twice, the report nobody has time to write. We’ll take that one to production, in your operation, and you can judge us on it.
You don’t need a transformation program to start. Pick the one workflow where AI should already be working and isn’t the quote that takes three days, the claim that gets re keyed twice, the report nobody has time to write. We’ll take that one to production, in your operation, and you can judge us on it.
You don’t need a transformation program to start. Pick the one workflow where AI should already be working and isn’t the quote that takes three days, the claim that gets rekeyed twice, the report nobody has time to write. We’ll take that one to production, in your operation, and you can judge us on it.
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Let's make something happen together
Intelligence is no longer Scarce.
Results are.
Australian owned & operated
Your data stays onshore
Strategy-led, not tool-led
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Sunburnt AI is an Australian AI consulting and development company helping businesses turn AI from an emerging technology into a practical competitive advantage. From AI strategy and advisory to automation, AI agents, development, and team enablement, we design secure, scalable solutions built around your business, your people, and your goals.
Offices
Brisbane
123 Eagle Street · QLD 4000
Sydney
333 George Street · NSW 2000
Melbourne
120 Spencer Street · VIC 3000
Sunburnt AI · AI Advisory & Implementation Partner
© 2026 Sunburnt AI. All rights reserved.
Intelligence is no longer Scarce.
Results are.
Australian owned & operated
Your data stays onshore
Strategy-led, not tool-led
Recognised by
Listed on
Sunburnt AI is an Australian AI consulting and development company helping businesses turn AI from an emerging technology into a practical competitive advantage. From AI strategy and advisory to automation, AI agents, development, and team enablement, we design secure, scalable solutions built around your business, your people, and your goals.
Offices
Brisbane
123 Eagle Street · QLD 4000
Sydney
333 George Street · NSW 2000
Melbourne
120 Spencer Street · VIC 3000
Sunburnt AI · AI Advisory & Implementation Partner
© 2026 Sunburnt AI. All rights reserved.
Intelligence is no longer Scarce.
Results are.
Australian owned & operated
Your data stays onshore
Strategy-led, not tool-led
Sunburnt AI is an Australian AI consulting and development company helping businesses turn AI from an emerging technology into a practical competitive advantage. From AI strategy and advisory to automation, AI agents, development, and team enablement, we design secure, scalable solutions built around your business, your people, and your goals.
Offices
Brisbane
123 Eagle Street · QLD 4000
Sydney
333 George Street · NSW 2000
Melbourne
120 Spencer Street · VIC 3000
Sunburnt AI · AI Advisory & Implementation Partner
© 2026 Sunburnt AI. All rights reserved.