Twenty-seven years bridging platforms and the teams that ship on them: Unity, IGT, AWS, Pragma, and now studio-side. The industry has started calling it Forward Deployed Engineering. We've done it from both sides of the contract, which is how we know where vendors handwave.
Today that work runs on AI agent teams in production. We design them, deploy them, and hand them over to the people who have to operate them after we leave.
ChiefTechAdvisor is growing into a small senior practice. No org chart between you and the engineer doing the work.