Graph Advisors

You sell the platform. We get it live.

Forward Deployed Engineeringfor Platform Startups

Graph Advisors is a forward deployed engineering team for platform startups. You closed the enterprise deal. Your customer has a legacy system to retire, data to move, and a go-live date. Your own engineers are building the product. We embed with your customer, under your flag, and carry the deployment from kickoff to handoff.

One pod per customer: an Outcomes Manager and an Outcomes Engineer, both forward deployed. You keep shipping product. We get your customers live.

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Closed-won is not live. The gap is where deals stall.

Enterprise customers do not buy software, they buy a working system. Between the signature and the renewal there is a migration, an integration, a go-live, and a team to train. That work lands on your roadmap unless someone owns it.

Closed-wonThe enterprise deal signs. The clock starts.
EmbedOur pod drops in with your customer, under your flag.
MigrateLegacy system out. Data mapped, moved, verified.
Go-liveYour platform in production, first workflows running.
HandoffThe customer team trained and owning it.

Two people, one outcome.

Every engagement is staffed with a pod: an Outcomes Manager and an Outcomes Engineer, both forward deployed with your customer, both working under your flag.

Outcomes Manager

Runs the engagement.

Stakeholders, milestones, training, the weekly heartbeat. The Outcomes Manager knows what done means for your customer and holds everyone to it, including us.

Outcomes Engineer

Does the build.

Data migration, integrations, configuration, production cutover. The Outcomes Engineer ships the work, writes it down, and hands it over so the customer team can run it without us.

The cutover is the risk. We live in it.

Rip and replace fails in the overlap: the old system half out, the new one half in, and nobody sure who owns the next step. We staff exactly that zone. Every milestone below has a name on it.

Your team
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Kickoff + embedOM + OE on site with the client
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Legacy data outmapped, migrated, verified
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Platform livefirst workflows in production
Client team
Trained + owningrunbooks handed over
Your team
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Your platform team
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Your platform team
Graph FDE team: an Outcomes Manager + an Outcomes Engineer, forward deployed
The overlap: this is where things go off track with clients.

A financial data platform, from signed to handed off.

A platform that brings a firm's most important financial data, scattered across many companies and systems, into one place. The product worked incredibly well. The team was small. The new client was big.

The setup

Our pod embedded with the new client and plugged into the platform's customer success team: one plan, named owners, a clear definition of done.

The work

We operated the middleware between the client's companies and the platform, bringing every company's financial data into the system and getting the firm using it day to day.

The edge cases

Every messy mapping, permission question, and one-off format handled in a way that was safe, secure, and easy, without pulling platform engineers off the roadmap.

The handoff

A clean handoff to the client's team and the platform's customer success team. The platform earned a long-term customer. The customer got the full value of the platform.

A real engagement, details anonymized. Specifics vary by platform and customer.

One motion, every customer.

The second deployment is faster than the first. The fifth is a system: a playbook your company owns. Your book of business compounds instead of your backlog.

Embed
Migrate
Launch
Train
Hand off
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Work with an embedded pod on a monthly retainer.

Forward deployed senior team, under your flag, on your customer's timeline. No seat licenses, no lock-in. For platform startups that intend to land every enterprise deal they close.

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