Evaluate
The technology assessed against your actual data, security posture and integration reality — in writing, not a vendor deck rephrased.
For enterprise buyers of AI
Don’t have a forward-deployed engineer?
Borrow ours. A fractional forward-deployed engineer (FDE) who evaluates AI technology against your actual systems and takes a proof of concept through to production.
As resident Technology Evangelist in the Salesforce Innovation Centre, Derek spent decades advising enterprise buyers on the best way to fast-track their technology adoption and create value faster. This is that advice, alongside your team.
Sound familiar?
The moment this usually starts
- An agent platform is bought, and nobody on your side is set up to integrate it.
- A pilot is stuck between demo and production — it works in the meeting, not yet in the environment.
- A vendor’s forward-deployed engineer (FDE) left when the deal closed, and the work they were doing didn’t.
- A business case needs working evidence before the next funding or budget gate, not another slide.
What you get
Evidence, at each stage
Proof of concept
Working, in your environment, in weeks — enough to see what holds up before anyone commits further budget.
Production pilot
Live with real users, instrumented, and handed to your team to run. Production stays with the people who will operate it.
Integration
Agents, voice agents, and the systems they have to talk to — the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether a pilot survives contact with production.
We run on it ourselves
Systems we built, not just advised on
The fastest way to trust an evaluation is to see the evaluator’s own systems. These are ours, written up.
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A change request that reaches released software with no status meeting
Our client portal runs a straight-through process: client, AI agent and delivery pipeline speak one language, end to end.
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A safer way to test a change before it reaches the live organisation
Temporary environments, protected data, and evidence-based promotion — the pattern behind a real strategy engagement.
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A learning platform that talks back
Voice-narrated modules with a read-along and an AI guide a learner can ask questions of, grounded on the material in front of them.
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An MCP server in production for a real marketing platform
Claude or ChatGPT with real tools inside Marketing Cloud Account Engagement — no browser session, nothing sent without approval.
Recent work
Prototype to production, with a fractional engineer
An early-stage AI document-assessment startup: prototype to production with a fractional engineer, the founder’s team of four now selling it and a medical vertical opening up. The same fractional-engineer shape serves a startup without a CTO and an enterprise without an FDE.
How engagements are shaped
Proof of concept, or production pilot
Scoped as a proof of concept or a production pilot, with a fractional engineer alongside your team on a quarterly retainer. Production stays with the team who will run it.
Talk to us about your evaluation
Tell us what you’ve bought or are evaluating, and where it’s stuck — and we’ll come back to you quickly. Email hello@helikona.com or message us on Slack.