A business unit of NMI Labs AI

Forward-deployed AI engineering. From opportunity to production.

We embed engineers with your teams to design, build and run AI systems end to end, from the models and GPUs underneath to the data pipelines and cloud platforms around them.

  1. 01AI engineering
  2. 01aAI infrastructure & GPUs
  3. 02Data engineering
  4. 03Cloud & platform engineering
Why forward deployment

Most AI work stops at the slide deck. Ours ships.

Forward deployment puts engineers inside your environment, with your people, systems and data, until the system works in production and your teams own it.

Traditional consulting

Advises on what to build

Assessments, strategy and roadmaps, usually handed over before anything reaches users.

Ends with recommendations

Systems integration

Builds to a fixed spec

Starts once requirements are written, and often misses the workflow realities that decide adoption.

Ends with a delivered spec

NMI Forward

Engineers and deploys with you

From the first valuable question through architecture, engineering and deployment, embedded with your teams.

Ends with a system in production

Practices

The full stack an AI system depends on.

Production AI fails at the seams between models, compute, data and platforms. We cover all four, so one team owns the outcome.

01

AI engineering

Production LLM applications and agents that are evaluated, guarded and maintained, not demos.

  • LLM applications & copilots
  • Agents & multi-agent orchestration
  • Retrieval & reasoning (RAG)
  • Evaluation & guardrails
  • Fine-tuning & distillation
  • Voice, vision & multimodal
  • Classical ML & forecasting
01a

AI infrastructure & GPUs

Part of AI engineering

The compute layer under your models: sized, scheduled and tuned so inference is fast and GPU spend is justified.

  • GPU cluster design & capacity planning
  • Kubernetes GPU scheduling
  • Model serving (vLLM, Triton, TensorRT-LLM)
  • Training & fine-tuning pipelines
  • Inference latency & cost per token
  • Self-hosted & open-weight models
02

Data engineering

Reliable, governed data that AI can actually use, structured and unstructured, batch and real time.

  • Batch & streaming pipelines
  • Lakehouse & warehouse (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, Fabric)
  • Document ingestion & parsing
  • Embedding pipelines & vector stores
  • Data quality, lineage & governance
03

Cloud & platform engineering

The platforms that let AI run safely at scale, with the guardrails your security and finance teams expect.

  • Landing zones & cloud architecture
  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
  • Kubernetes & internal platforms
  • CI/CD, MLOps & LLMOps
  • Observability & reliability
  • Security, identity & FinOps
How we work

From the first question to the system in use.

Understand deeply. Engineer practically. Deploy into production.

01 / Discover

Find the value

Users, workflows, systems, data, constraints and the outcomes that matter.

02 / Architect

Design the system

Models, compute, data flows, cloud architecture, security and evaluation.

03 / Engineer

Build it properly

Agents, applications, pipelines, APIs and the infrastructure beneath them.

04 / Integrate

Connect the enterprise

Enterprise apps, data platforms, knowledge sources, identity and processes.

05 / Deploy

Go live with control

Reliability, observability, security, automation and clear ownership.

06 / Adopt & improve

Make it stick

Support teams, measure outcomes, refine and scale what proves valuable.

Clouds & models

Built on the cloud you already run.

We deploy into your own cloud tenancy, under your security, identity and data-residency controls, and choose models on merit for each workload.

AWS

Amazon Web Services

Managed foundation models, custom training and GPU serving on AWS.

  • Bedrock
  • SageMaker
  • EC2 GPU
  • EKS
AZ

Microsoft Azure

Enterprise AI inside the Microsoft estate, on your existing identity and data.

  • AI Foundry
  • Azure OpenAI
  • AKS
  • Fabric
GC

Google Cloud

Gemini and open models on Vertex AI, next to BigQuery data.

  • Vertex AI
  • Gemini
  • BigQuery
  • GKE
OCI

Oracle Cloud

AI and GPU compute close to Oracle databases and applications.

  • OCI Generative AI
  • GPU bare metal
  • OKE
Closed model familiesClaude AnthropicGPT OpenAIGemini GoogleGrok xAIMuse Meta
Open-weight model familiesDeepSeek DeepSeekQwen AlibabaKimi Moonshot AIGLM Z.aiNemotron NVIDIAMiMo XiaomiMistral Mistral AIgpt-oss OpenAIGemma Google
Model-agnostic by design. We choose models on capability, cost, latency and governance for each workload, and run open-weight models on your own GPUs when data must stay in your environment.
For AI & cloud providers

Forward-deployed capacity for the platforms enterprises build on.

Model providers and hyperscalers need engineers who can turn platform commitments into production workloads inside customer environments. NMI Forward is built to be that team.

Model providersHyperscalersAI platforms
Discuss a partnership
  • Delivery on your stackWe build with your models, APIs and cloud services, following your reference architectures.
  • Customer-facing engineeringEmbedded with your customers’ teams, from discovery through production go-live.
  • Full-stack coverageOne team across AI, GPUs, data and cloud platforms, so nothing stalls between vendors.
  • Depth where it mattersAgents, retrieval, evaluation, model serving and multimodal systems in production.
Typical work

Where information, systems and people need to move together.

Industry-agnostic by design. We work wherever AI, data and cloud can create real operational or commercial value.

Enterprise agents & copilots

Agents that orchestrate multi-system workflows, and copilots for specialised roles.

Knowledge & reasoning systems

Enterprise search, retrieval and decision support grounded in your own information.

Document intelligence

Structured, reviewable intelligence extracted from large document collections.

Private model hosting

Open-weight and fine-tuned models served on your own GPUs, inside your network.

AI-ready data platforms

Lakehouses, pipelines and vector stores that turn scattered data into usable context.

Platform modernisation

Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and release workflows built for AI workloads.

Financial servicesInsuranceManufacturingRetail & e-commerceLogisticsEnergy & utilitiesTelecommunicationsTechnologyPublic sectorHealthcare & life sciences
The standard

Production is the standard.

Every engagement is designed around the environment it will enter: people, systems, data, risk, reliability, security, evaluation and long-term ownership.

  • Human oversightControls proportionate to the risk and sensitivity of each use case.
  • Security by designIdentity, access and data protection aligned to your cloud policies.
  • Evaluation & traceabilitySystems measured against agreed outcomes before and after go-live.
  • Reliable operationsObservability, alerting and runbooks your teams can own.
  • Maintainable systemsDocumented, tested and handed over, never a black box.
Let’s build

Make the opportunity operational.

Bring the problem, the environment and the outcome you need. We’ll map a practical path from idea to production in 30 minutes.