The people who make your data act.
Industry studies put the share of enterprise AI pilots that never reach production — or never deliver measurable return — as high as 80–95%. Altivate’s AI Forward Deployed Engineers exist to close that gap: senior AI engineers embedded in your team, building agents, models and retrieval on your own data — SAP and beyond — until they run in production, evaluated, governed and adopted. Not consultants with a roadmap, and not the engineers building your system of record: the people who make your data act.
AI that acts in the systems where your business runs — adopted, governed, improving every cycle.
For the operating controls behind a production deployment, see the twelve-question agent readiness test.
Structure the first production learning cycle with the evidence-gated 90-day agent roadmap .
From your data to working AI
Six disciplines, one embedded team — everything it takes to move AI from idea to governed production.
Agents and assistants
Agentic AI that works multi-step business tasks — triaging requests, reconciling records, drafting actions — with human approval where it matters. Built with SAP Business AI and Joule agents where the work lives in SAP, and custom agent frameworks where it doesn’t.
Machine learning on your history
Forecasting, anomaly detection and classification models trained on your own transactions and telemetry, not generic benchmarks. Shipped only when they beat the process they replace.
Retrieval and RAG over enterprise data
Grounded answers over your documents, policies and SAP records — with source citations and your access model enforced, so every answer is traceable and the wrong person never sees it.
Data and feature engineering
The pipelines that make enterprise data AI-ready: extraction, cleaning, features, freshness. It is most of the real work in enterprise AI, and the team does it first — not as an afterthought.
Evaluation, guardrails and MLOps
Evaluation suites that gate every release, guardrails for what the AI may and may not do, and monitoring for drift, cost and quality in production. The discipline that turns a model into a system.
AI back into the process
Insight is not the product; the completed action is. The team wires AI into the places work actually happens — SAP transactions, business apps, workflows — so output lands as a finished step, not another dashboard.
What an AI FDE team ships
Concrete things a team puts into production — on your data.
Agentic process assistant
An agent that works a live queue — order exceptions, supplier queries, service requests — reading the context, drafting the action in your systems and routing it for human approval.
Grounded knowledge assistant
Question-answering over contracts, policies, manuals and SAP records — with citations to the source and your permissions enforced on every answer.
Document intelligence pipeline
Invoices, delivery notes and contracts extracted into structured, SAP-ready data — with confidence thresholds deciding what posts automatically and what a human reviews.
Forecasting and early-warning models
Demand, cash and quality signals modelled on your own history and delivered inside the planner’s workflow — flagged before the miss, not reported after it.
When an AI FDE team is the right call
The situations where embedded AI engineers change the trajectory fastest.
Fund delivery against an evidence-based AI agent business case with residual review and control cost included.
Governed delivery, proven foundations
There is no shortage of AI demos; the scarce thing is AI running governed in production. Altivate’s AI FDE teams work inside your security model, ship behind evaluation gates, and operate within Altivate’s ISO/IEC 27001-certified environment — with human oversight designed in, not bolted on. And because most enterprise AI value hides in the systems that run the business, it matters that the engineers building your AI sit alongside an SAP Gold Partner practice with a certified Partner Center of Expertise: they understand the data models and processes your AI has to act on.
Put AI engineers on your data. Tell us the process you want AI in. We’ll scope an embedded AI FDE team and a first shippable use case.
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