San Francisco, California, October 12th, 2026, NewsDirect

The bootstrapped firm deploys elite Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) and go-to-market practice directly inside client tech stacks, serving companies from Series A to private equity-backed enterprises

Companies are spending billions on AI. Most of it never reaches the work. Pilots stall because the data an agent needs is spread across a dozen systems, access rules were written for people rather than software that acts on its own, and no one inside the business owns turning a demo into a working process. UNKAPPED Inc. is betting that the biggest opportunity in enterprise AI isn’t building another tool. It’s the engineering that makes the tools companies have already bought pay back.

UNKAPPED is an Applied AI and go-to-market engineering firm built on a forward-deployed model. Its engineers work inside a client’s own systems and across departments, from sales and marketing to customer success, finance, and operations. They find the work that should move to AI, build the agents and automations that do it, and stay until those systems run in production with a measured result.

“Most companies pay for AI and data platforms they use a fraction of,” said Neeraj Kumar, Co-founder and Chief Technology and Product Officer. “The return comes from engineering: the right data, the right signals, and agents wired into the way the team actually works. Platforms don’t do that on their own.”

The launch comes as enterprises race to adopt AI while struggling to move beyond pilots. Gartner predicts that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027, citing escalating costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls. The gap between AI investment and execution is creating demand for engineers who can turn technology into working business systems.

Investors are now forming advisory programmes around forward-deployed engineering. UNKAPPED was built to execute it: its engineers deploy inside the business, not around it.

“Working with companies from Series A to PE-backed enterprises, we keep seeing the same pattern,” said Sachin Jha, Co-founder & CEO of UNKAPPED. “Early-stage teams buy a dozen tools before they have a repeatable motion. Growth-stage companies add sales headcount while pipeline stays flat, because the CRM at the centre of everything is one no one trusts. Enterprises run AI pilots that never reach production because nobody owns the work between IT and the business. Different stages, same root cause: the systems between the tools were never engineered. That is the work we do. "

Its senior-led teams work within a client's existing cloud, CRM and data environment, so everything they build stays with the client.

Its services span three areas:

Forward-deployed engineering: Engineers embedded in client teams who connect data, fix access and permissions, wire agents into existing systems and take them to production.

Applied AI: Developing AI agents and workflows with testing, evaluation, human oversight and governance built in.

GTM engineering: Buyer signals, account scoring, routing and revenue operations engineered so sales capacity goes to the accounts ready to buy.

The team includes experts ranked in the top 1% of GTM worldwide, product and platform leaders from major Cloud and Cyber, enterprise transformation leaders from global banking and payments, and marketing leaders who have built demand for cybersecurity, developer tools, cloud and AI-native companies.

“Enterprise transformation fails when it remains a roadmap rather than becoming a working system with a clear owner,” said Lakshmi Sindhuri, Co-founder and Head of Enterprise Transformation. “Our focus is on identifying the constraint, building the solution and making sure the organisation can run it independently.”

Every engagement begins with a GTM and AI readiness audit that examines the client's existing systems, identifies execution gaps and prioritises improvements based on expected business impact.

Businesses can request an audit at unkapped.ai or contact [email protected].

About UNKAPPED

UNKAPPED Inc. is an Applied AI and go-to-market engineering firm headquartered in San Francisco. It embeds forward-deployed practice and top 1% GTM experts inside client teams. It helps companies from Series A to private equity-backed enterprises turn their technology investments into working AI systems, scalable revenue operations and measurable returns, with deep expertise in cybersecurity, developer tools, cloud and AI-native software.

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Contact

Sachin Jha
UNKAPPED Inc.
[email protected]
+1 (341) 667-3561