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The forward-deployed AI team for B2B companies

Forward-deployed AI consultancy

AI that works before you scale it.

predeploy is an AI consultancy and training team that works inside your business. We embed engineers and trainers in your team to pick the use cases, build them into your stack, train your people and point AI at revenue first.

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AI, go-to-market and fractional leadership roles listed on our sister site, Fractional Quest, read from each role’s public listing on 6 Oct 2026.

01 · AI consultancy

Use cases chosen, then built

An AI consultancy helps a business decide where AI will pay and then puts it to work. Ours does both halves: a readiness assessment and use-case selection, then the build and deployment, by the same engineers.

Adoption is no longer the hard part. According to the ONS, Business Insights and Conditions Survey, wave 159, 29% of UK businesses now use at least one AI technology. Depth is the gap: among firms with ten or more staff that use AI, only one in ten say they use it extensively.

We close that gap one workflow at a time, starting with the ones closest to revenue. How our AI consultancy works →

29%of UK businesses used at least one AI technology in June 2026, up 8 points in a year

Source: ONS, Business Insights and Conditions Survey, wave 159 (Jul 2026)

10%of UK businesses (10 or more staff) that use AI say they use it extensively

Source: ONS, Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 (Jul 2026)

02 · AI training

Training in the tools you already use

AI training for business teaches people to do their own jobs with AI, on their own data, in their own tools. We run it for teams and companies, hands-on, not as a video course and not as model training.

Most UK workforces have not been trained yet. The ONS, Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 found that only 11% of businesses with ten or more staff have given AI-related training to more than half their people, while the government and industry have set a goal of upskilling 10 million workers by 2030.

Our sessions are built around the workflows we deploy, so people learn on the work they will actually do. See the AI training →

11%of UK businesses with 10 or more staff say more than half their workforce has had AI-related training

Source: ONS, Artificial intelligence in UK businesses: 2023 to 2026 (Jul 2026)

10 millionUK workers the government and industry aim to upskill in AI by 2030

Source: DSIT, AI Skills Boost explainer (Jan 2026)

03 · AI-powered GTM

Point AI at revenue first

AI-powered GTM means building AI into go-to-market work: account research, signal-based outreach, content and CRM hygiene. It is where a first build shows up fastest in the numbers a board reads.

The McKinsey, The state of AI in 2026 found that 37% of organisations say AI has added to their EBIT. Starting where the revenue is makes it far easier to show which side of that line you are on.

We build the AI layer; strategy and execution sit with our sister brand GTM.quest. If you need a GTM agency to run the motion, start there. Its guides compare GTM agencies for start-ups, explain when a GTM consultancy is the better fit, how to choose a GTM go-to-market agency, and what a go-to-market strategy agency actually does.

See AI-powered GTM →

37%of organisations worldwide say AI has added to their EBIT, unchanged on 2025

Source: McKinsey, The state of AI in 2026 (Aug 2026)

  • Account research that reads filings, hiring and news before a rep does
  • Signal-based outreach triggered by what a buyer just did
  • Content drafted from your own calls, wins and product notes
  • CRM hygiene that fills, de-duplicates and updates records

Why forward-deployed

Slide decks, or shipped workflows

A forward-deployed team works inside your business until the thing runs. Flip the switch to compare a recommendations-only engagement with ours.

The bars are a comparison of approach, not measured results. Our engineers work in your systems and alongside your people, so what they build fits how the business really runs, and someone on your side can own it when they leave. What a forward deployed engineer does →

What you are left withA slide deck
Who builds itYour team, later
Who can run it afterwardsNot decided
Where it runsIn a pilot

How it works

Assess, build, train, hand over

Four stages, the same team throughout. Each one ends with something you can use, so you can stop after any of them.

Assess

Find the work AI can take

We sit with the teams, map the processes that eat their week and score each one on value, data and risk. You get a short list, not a long report.

Build

Build it into your stack

Our engineers build the first workflows inside the tools you already run, with your people in the room, and put revenue-facing work first.

Train

Train the people who use it

Hands-on sessions in your own tools and on your own data, for the people who will run the workflows and the people who will maintain them.

Hand over

Leave it running without us

Documentation, owners and a plan for what to build next. We step back once your team can run, fix and extend what we built.

Part of the Quest network

One network, six jobs

predeploy is a Fractional Quest company. Each sister brand does one job, and we hand work between them when a client needs it.

predeploy

Builds and deploys AI: consultancy, training and the engineers who do the work inside your team.

GTM.quest

Runs go-to-market: positioning, pipeline and the agencies and consultants who deliver it. See GTM.quest for its guides and directory, starting with what a go-to-market agency does.

Fractional Quest

Places fractional leaders. As a fractional recruitment agency it finds a fractional CMO, fractional CTO, fractional CFO or fractional COO for a few days a week, and lists open fractional jobs across the UK.

RFP.quest

Our RFP software for UK public-sector bids: it reads every Find a Tender and Contracts Finder notice, forecasts when buyers will re-tender and drafts bids with AI. We built it, and it is the AI product we point to when clients ask what we ship.

membership.quest

Membership marketing for associations, clubs and subscription businesses. Its membership strategy work is where AI-led retention and renewal projects usually start.

uksrs.org.uk

A plain-English guide to the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards, for teams whose AI and data work has to feed sustainability disclosures.

FAQ

Questions, answered

predeploy is a forward-deployed AI team for B2B companies. We embed engineers and trainers in your team to pick the AI use cases worth building, build them into the systems you already use, train your people to run them, and point the first builds at revenue. We offer AI consultancy, AI training and AI-powered GTM.

A forward deployed engineer is a software engineer who works inside a customer’s team, on the customer’s problems and systems, rather than on a product roadmap back at base. The job is to turn a capability, here AI, into something running in that customer’s day-to-day work. Our forward deployed engineers page covers when you need one and whether to hire or rent.

A strategy engagement usually ends with recommendations. Ours ends with workflows running in your stack and a team trained to run them. We still do the assessment and use-case selection, but the same people then build and hand over.

Both, and in that order. We build the first workflows with your team, then train the people who will use and maintain them, in the tools they already use. You can also book AI training on its own.

We pick per job rather than per partnership: the major model providers, open models where data has to stay in-house, and the automation, CRM and data tools you already run. We have no reseller deals, so the recommendation is the one that fits your stack.

It depends on the workflow, your data and your systems, so we scope it on the first call and give you a timeline and a quote before you commit. The first call is free: book it here.

predeploy is a Fractional Quest company. Fractional Quest Ltd is registered in England (Company No. 17322105) at 71–75 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9JQ. Its sister sites are GTM.quest, Fractional Quest, RFP.quest, membership.quest and uksrs.org.uk, described in the network section above.

Taking briefs this week

Tell us the workflow. We get it working.

A call with an engineer, not a sales team. Bring the process that eats your week and we will tell you, on the call, whether AI can take it.

01We map the use cases worth building first

02We say plainly what AI will not fix

03You leave with a scoped first build and a timeline

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