Enterprise AI Squad Model
Organize the smallest cross-functional team that can discover, build, adopt, and operate a meaningful improvement to a business workflow.
How the model works
Deployment Strategist
Owns problem discovery, workflow mapping, stakeholder alignment, use-case qualification, and the link between delivery and business value.
Forward Deployed Engineer
Makes ideas testable through rapid prototypes, data access, integration, evaluation, and production engineering alongside real users.
Product / Business Owner
Is accountable for business outcomes, prioritization, SME access, workflow decisions, adoption, and value realization.
Domain and AI expertise
Domain SMEs define what correct work looks like. AI engineers contribute specialist model and agent expertise when the product requires it.
Enabling functions
Platform, security, data, architecture, and governance provide reusable capabilities and proportionate guardrails. Portfolio leadership supplies direction and investment.