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Forward-deployed software & AI engineering

Conquer your organization's biggest problems.

We embed with enterprise and government-contractor teams to connect critical systems, automate the work between them, and ship production software and AI you own.

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  • Founder-led delivery
  • US-based engineering
  • Client-owned source

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Systems integration, custom software, and AI for enterprise and government programs.

Clients and partners in the first row; the products and open-source tools we build in the second. We work alongside prime contractors on federal and state pursuits.

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Clients and partners

Products and tools built by Ashlr

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At Ashlr

forward-deployed engineer

FOR-werd dih-PLOYD en-juh-NEER

nounplural: forward-deployed engineers

An engineer who works alongside a client’s team to understand a real operating problem, then designs, builds, and carries the solution into production.

At Ashlr, that means connecting your existing systems, custom software, and AI workflows, with named engineers accountable from discovery through acceptance and handoff.

forward-deployed engineering noun. The practice of working alongside a client’s team to design, build, and deliver agreed software and AI work.

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Selected work

Evidence from systems already in the world.

Published engagements and the systems we delivered.

AI-created illustration of people discussing software at a working table.

Cash Margin Partners

From operating data to recovery decisions

Cash Margin Partners

A connected data foundation

Inventory, accounting, and payment events

  1. Understand inventory

    Classify stock and trace the cash tied up in it.

  2. Anticipate the next decision

    Connect demand forecasts to stockout risk and recovery priorities.

  3. Coordinate recovery

    Turn the analysis into reviewable work, with clear approval boundaries.

Human review, source traceability, and bounded actions across the workflow.

System overview based on the published engagement. Not a live dashboard or customer-data screenshot.

Retail fintech platform

Ongoing technical partnership

5 weeks

Signature to production

Five weeks from signature to production.

Ashlr built a retail platform connecting commerce, accounting, payments, forecasting, and inventory recovery, from contract to production in five weeks.

  • Product engineering
  • Systems integration
  • AI-enabled workflows
“This is excellent. I love a guy that sweats the details.”
John Valenti, Founder & CEO, Cash Margin Partners
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The people in the first meeting build the system.

Strategy, architecture, and delivery sit in one senior team. You work directly with the founders accountable for the build and the handoff.

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Mason Wyatt, Co-Founder & CEO of Ashlr.AI

Mason Wyatt

Co-Founder & CEO

Commercial Engineering

Mason Scofield, Co-Founder & CTO of Ashlr.AI

Mason Scofield

Co-Founder & CTO

Systems Architecture

Evan Deloria, Co-Founder & COO of Ashlr.AI

Evan Deloria

Co-Founder & COO

Company Communications

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Core capabilities

Architecture and implementation stay in the same room.

One team designs the integration, the software, the AI, and the controls.

One connected operating system

We connect the tools you have to the workflows you need.

Source systems, permissions, agents, human review, and reporting are designed together, not bolted on.

Systems integration

Good fit when: Your team is re-entering the same information across systems that should work together.

  • CRM and ERP integration
  • APIs and data pipelines
  • Identity and permissions
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Agentic workflows

Good fit when: A repeatable workflow needs automation while your team keeps control of important decisions.

  • Workflow agents
  • Approval and escalation
  • Evals and audit trails
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Custom software engineering

Good fit when: Your operation has outgrown spreadsheets or software that no longer fits the way you work.

  • Web and data platforms
  • Executive command centers
  • Production product engineering
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AI education and implementation

Good fit when: Your team is experimenting with AI and needs a practical path to useful, responsible adoption.

  • Executive and team education
  • Use-case prioritization
  • Governance and rollout
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Controls are part of the build

Permissioned by design
Identity, roles, and scoped retrieval
Measured before scale
Evals, QA sets, and audit trails
Built into the workflow
CRM, ERP, docs, email, and data systems
Owned by the client
Source, docs, handoff, and support
Who we build for

Built for how your organization actually runs.

Different environments demand different controls. We scope around the workflow and the people accountable for it.

Commercial

Enterprise operations

Modernize high-value operations without adding another disconnected tool or vendor handoff.

Systems integrationInternal platformsGoverned AI workflows
Enterprise systems
GovCon

Government contractors

We work alongside primes and program offices on capture, delivery, compliance, and program knowledge. Controlled systems, with humans in the decisions.

Capture intelligencePermissioned knowledgeHuman review and audit
GovCon workflows
Operations

Sports & venues

Connected ticketing, sponsorship, event-day operations, and reporting for teams and venues.

Revenue operationsEvent workflowsConnected reporting
Sports and venue workflows

Building a venture-backed company? Our embedded engineering model also supports product and platform work as your organization grows.

Delivering for your own clients?

Partnership models

Government contractors

Bring us into a pursuit or a program. Software, integration, and AI workstreams shaped around its requirements.

Commercial partners

Hands-on engineering for consultancies, integrators, and agencies delivering for their clients.

Field notes and analysis from the work.

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Tell us about your project.

Describe what's getting in the way. You don't need a finished spec.

Prefer a conversation?

Evan Deloria, Co-Founder & COO of Ashlr.AI

Evan Deloria

Co-Founder & COO

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What happens next

  1. One of our founders reviews your context.
  2. If there is fit, we schedule a working conversation.
  3. We define the problem together before proposing scope.

A few sentences are enough. Include systems or timing if you know them.

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