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How I Work
I work as a forward deployed engineer. That means I work directly with your team, in your tools and your day-to-day work, to build AI systems that fit how your business actually runs. Anthropic's Claude Frontier Academy describes the role well. A strong forward deployed engineer picks the problems worth solving, builds on the company's own systems and data, gets the work through security review, and changes how the teams around it work. Then they teach the team, so the new skills stay after they leave.
That is how I work. I don't hand you a slide deck of AI ideas. I map how work really moves through your business and find where time, money, and clients are being lost. Then I build AI systems around the tools your team already uses, and I stay until your team runs them without me.
Case study
A 10-person marketing agency
- The problem
- The owner could not answer simple questions. What does each client cost to serve? Which channel brings the leads that actually close? Which clients are about to leave? Most of the answers lived in the owner's head, and the rest were spread across spreadsheets, different email inboxes, and Slack threads.
- The work
- The agency systems quiz named the three biggest gaps. In the systems audit, we traced how a client moves from lead to onboarding to monthly delivery. Then I built a custom system on top of their existing CRM, project tool, and billing, with Claude agents that:
- Flag clients showing early signs of churn
- Give every deliverable an owner and chase it when it runs late
- Run the same onboarding steps for every client and hire
- Report true unit economics, like LTV:CAC by channel
- Build and send client reports automatically
- The result
- Clients, deliverables, margins, and logins now live in one place, with client credentials behind role-based access instead of in notes. The team is more efficient and communicates better: everyone can find the information they need to finish a task without asking someone for it, and client reports go out automatically. We also improved employee efficiency by migrating the team to use AI in their daily workflows. The team runs the system day to day, so the agency can take on more clients without hiring more people, and the owner gets answers in seconds instead of working them out by hand.
Blog
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A client email with no reply is your earliest churn signalNov 11, 2026
Agency revenue leakage: active clients that you forgot to billNov 11, 2026
Automated client reporting for agencies: monthly reports that pull their own numbersNov 11, 2026
How to sell a marketing agency: could you give a buyer 12 months of KPIs today?Nov 11, 2026

Christian Beatty
Software Developer and Marketer


