# AI Deployment Firms

> Every AI deployment firm in the world: forward-deployed engineers, AI implementation consultancies and agent builders that take AI from pilot to production inside other organisations. Published by Eilla AI (https://eilla.ai) and updated every week. 86 firms in 27 countries, with $6.7 billion raised.

## What counts as AI deployment

An AI deployment firm puts AI to work inside other organisations. Its engineers build AI systems on the client's own data and tools, take them into production and often keep running them. Deploying AI is the firm's main business, not a practice inside a large consultancy or IT outsourcer, and the work is shaped around each client rather than sold as a software licence.

1. Deploying AI is the business. The firm's main business is building, integrating and running AI systems for client organisations. A generalist IT services or consulting firm with an AI practice doesn't count, and nor does a practice inside a large firm.
2. It ships to production. Its engineers build working systems on the client's data and tools (agents, automations, models, AI applications) and stay until they run. Strategy, audits, workshops or training on their own don't count.
3. It's built around each client. Forward-deployed or embedded teams, custom builds or managed AI operations, shaped to the client's workflows. Using its own platform or accelerators is fine; selling a self-serve software licence makes it a software company.
4. It's a real, independent firm. It has its own website, a team rather than one freelancer, and public evidence of its work: named clients or case studies, funding, a partnership with an AI lab or cloud, or press coverage.

Not on the map: AI practices inside the Big Four, large consultancies and IT outsourcers; Software sold by licence or seat, including AI platforms the client runs itself; AI labs themselves (a separate deployment company backed by a lab is listed); Talent marketplaces, staffing firms and solo consultants; Firms that only advise or train, without building anything.

## Pages

- [AI Deployment Firms](https://aideploymentfirms.com/): the map, with every firm, its funding rounds and investors
- [Map criteria](https://aideploymentfirms.com/criteria): the tests in full
- [What's new](https://aideploymentfirms.com/whats-new): new firms, rounds, acquisitions and news, newest first
- [AI implementation consultancies](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/ai-consulting-and-implementation): 31 firms
- [Data and AI engineering firms](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/data-and-ai-engineering): 30 firms
- [Industry-specialist AI deployment firms](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/industry-specialists): 9 firms
- [Forward-deployed AI engineering firms](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/forward-deployed-engineering): 5 firms
- [AI agent development companies](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/ai-agents-and-automation): 5 firms
- [AI deployment firms for government and the public sector](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/government-and-public-sector): 3 firms
- [AI lab deployment companies](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/lab-backed-deployment): 2 firms
- [AI implementation firms for private equity and the mid-market](https://aideploymentfirms.com/sector/private-equity-and-mid-market): 1 firm

## Data

- [companies.json](https://aideploymentfirms.com/data/companies.json)
- [deals.json](https://aideploymentfirms.com/data/deals.json)
- [investors.json](https://aideploymentfirms.com/data/investors.json)
- [llms-full.txt](https://aideploymentfirms.com/llms-full.txt): every firm on the map, by market