Forward deployed engineers for AI companies entering Europe.
You sell AI to European enterprises. We put the engineers inside your customers: a team, not a contractor, led and backed by MODULOR, a group of design and engineering studios.
Vercel partner. Working with
- Inditex
- Zara
- McKinsey
- Repsol
- Telefónica
How it works
A team inside your customer, not a lone contractor. Engineers ship, a manager leads, an account partner owns the relationship.
Culture, not immigration
We bring your culture, not ours. A partner learns how you work in San Francisco, then leads your deployment in Europe.
Joins your team in San Francisco. Standups, reviews, planning. Time with your people, not a kickoff call.
Learns how you build. Your engineering standards, your product judgment, how you talk to customers.
Leads the deployment from Spain. The embedded team works your way inside your European customer.
Hiring is not the problem
Hiring is the easy part. The hard part is cultural: keeping good engineers engaged inside a company that is not theirs.
They learn the deployment. Real onboarding into your product and your customer's stack, not a handover document.
They are followed up. A manager, 1:1s and reviews, so nobody is left alone at a customer site.
They connect with your company. Time with your team in San Francisco, your rituals, your roadmap.
So they stay. And your customer keeps the people who know the deployment best.
Why Europe is hard
Europe is not one market. Every country buys differently, speaks its own language and expects someone local in the room.
Regulation comes first. GDPR and the EU AI Act decide how data moves and how models ship. Your engineers need to know both.
Hiring takes quarters. Opening an entity and recruiting senior engineers is slower than the deals you are closing.
One engineer is not enough. A contractor alone is body shopping. A deployment needs leadership, continuity and a bench behind it.
Why Spain
Spain covers Europe. Same time zone as Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, a short flight from every major capital.
A cost window, open now. Senior engineers in Spain cost less than in London, Paris or Munich, at the same level.
Talent wants to live here. Quality of life attracts senior engineers and keeps them, including those relocating from across Europe.
The door to the IBEX 35. Our studios already work with Spain's largest companies and know how they buy. Many European deployments start there.
What changes
Your customer gets reliable technical capacity, visibility, speed and senior judgment, not only hands.
You get a team shipping in Europe from week one, with hiring, onboarding and performance handled by us.
The studios behind it
Entering Europe? Tell us about the deployment and we will propose a team.
danny@modulor.ventures