AI forward deployed engineering
AI engineers who build it, run it, and stand behind it.
TachyonShift embeds senior engineers in your business. They ship working AI agents, workflow automation and cloud platforms in weeks, then operate them around the clock under one accountable team.
Assessment: $7,500 fixed. Report in days.
What we do
Three jobs. One team.
01
Build
AI agents, workflow automation, and web and data applications, systems integration, and the cloud platform they run on.
02
Run
24/7 operations on AWS, Azure, and GCP: monitoring, patching, cost control, migration, and incident response.
03
Govern
Human verification on the outputs that matter, a full audit trail, model evaluation, and any model provider underneath. For one governed platform across the company, we implement and operate UnifAI.
Most firms sell one of these. You would otherwise hire three vendors and referee between them. We carry all three.
The difference
Why companies choose TachyonShift
One team from first prototype to 24/7 operation
The engineers who build your system operate it. Quality is their problem on day 90, so it gets solved on day 9.
Faster than the plan
The first working version arrives in weeks, on your real data. In one public-sector pursuit we answered a county solicitation with a live, working version of the resource, which moved the start of value forward by six months.
A senior engineer leads every engagement
That engineer answers for the result. Specialists join as the work needs them, and the runbooks and tests we write let any of our engineers keep the system running.
AI you can audit
Every action is logged. People verify the outputs where a wrong answer costs money. You can reconstruct any decision the system made.
No model lock-in
We build model-neutral. Moving a workflow from one provider to another, or to your own fine-tune, is a configuration change.
Results with denominators
We write the success metrics first and report them with sample sizes and dates. You see what changed and by how much.
Results
Results, not decks.
28x
Site visitors against the prior 28 days, for an event page almost no one had heard of.
0 to 400+
Ticket checkouts started per day at peak, up from near zero, tracked by ad and city.
8x
Click-through rate, 15.58% against a 1.93% Meta traffic-campaign average.
From a 12-venue live event tour. Benchmark: WordStream, 2026. Client confidential.
Typical path arrives at Month 9. TachyonShift arrives at Month 3, 6 months earlier.
Proportions are illustrative.
How we work
Pick your entry point
Start here
AI Assessment
Where AI pays back in your business, with the ROI math and a pilot scope.
Cost
Cloud cost audit
30 minutes, read-only access to your AWS cost data, specific resources named, savings ranked.
Risk
End-of-support review
A map of what is still running on unsupported software and your options, such as SQL Server 2016.
Marketing
Launch-ready marketing foundation
Five weeks, fixed scope: tracking, ad accounts, and a rebuilt key page, with results reported by location.
Need AI governed across the whole company?
UnifAI is the enterprise AI platform: every major model, one control plane, cost and audit built in. TachyonShift implements and operates it.
The team
The people you will work with.
Kevin McDonald
CEO
Tom Miller
Board Advisor
Neha Desai
VP of Customer Success
What is a forward deployed engineer?
A senior engineer who works inside your business, not at a distance. They learn your process, your data, and your rules, then build the system that fits. You get working software, not a slide deck.
How is this different from a consulting firm?
Consulting firms build and leave. We build it, run it, and stand behind it. The engineers who ship your system also operate it, so the quality of the build is their problem on day 90.
Which AI models do you use?
The right one for each step, from any provider or your own fine-tune. We build model-neutral, so swapping a model is a configuration change, not a rebuild.
Who owns the work?
Your data is yours and always exportable. Deliverables, documentation, and code ownership are named in each statement of work. TachyonShift keeps ownership of its reusable platform and tools, and says so in writing before you sign.