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Michael Labate | August 11, 2026

Thought Leadership

The term “forward deployed engineer” is everywhere right now. Job postings for this “seemingly new role” grew 729% between April 2025 and April 2026. Source: Business Insider OpenAI has since launched a deployment company backed by more than $4 billion, while forward deployed roles are appearing across other big tech companies. For some, the term […]

Eduardo Coles | August 11, 2026

Thought Leadership

Forward deployed engineer is one of the fastest-growing job titles in tech right now, and perhaps one of the most argued about. Over the past year, demand for the role has climbed by several hundred percent. Frontier AI labs are hiring for it aggressively, while the title has spread into consulting firms and enterprise software […]

Eduardo Coles | August 10, 2026

DevSecOps

The average data breach in 2025 took 181 days to identify, and another 60 days to contain once it was found (a total lifecycle of 241 days), according to IBM. Organisations spent roughly six months just figuring out whether a breach had happened at all. The same report put the global average cost of a […]

Jocelyn Sexton | August 4, 2026

Thought Leadership

If you’re a CTO or VP of Engineering at a mid-sized company, you’ve probably heard the pitch: “We use AI to accelerate your development team.” You’ve also probably noticed most vendors say the same thing and deliver very different results. At GAP, we take it further. We don’t just license AI tools to our engineers; […]

Michael Labate | July 9, 2026

AI Application Modernization

Getting an agent up and running has never been easier. Off-the-shelf platforms, agent frameworks and foundation models have lowered the barrier to entry, putting a first deployment within reach of almost any organization. The challenge starts when that agent has to operate inside a real business. It needs access to company data, connections to existing […]

Michael Labate | July 9, 2026

Machine Learning & AI

Search for help building an AI agent and you will find hundreds of firms that all describe themselves the same way, in the language of intelligent, autonomous and end-to-end solutions. But that language tells you (non-surprisingly) little about what the company would actually do for you in practice. The problem is that “AI agent development […]

Eduardo Coles | July 8, 2026

Machine Learning & AI

The word “agentic” is attached to almost everything in AI right now. It gets used for chatbots that answer one question at a time, for copilots built into apps you already use, and for autonomous systems that plan and do work on their own. As a result, the term can mean very different things depending […]

Jocelyn Sexton | June 17, 2026

Thought Leadership

(This is Part 3 of a three-part series exploring what it takes to bring true agentic AI systems into enterprise production. Read Part 1 and Part 2.) When we gathered with technology leaders at the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Summit in New York City, one truth eclipsed all others: you can build the most architecturally […]

Jocelyn Sexton | June 16, 2026

Thought Leadership

(This is Part 2 of a three-part series exploring what it takes to bring true agentic AI systems into enterprise production. In Part 1, we broke down the PoC-to-Production Engineering Gap, using the commercial aviation autopilot analogy to show why 88% of AI pilots stall and why true ROI requires rewriting the operating model rather […]

Jocelyn Sexton | June 15, 2026

Thought Leadership

(This is Part 1 of a three-part series exploring what it takes to bring true agentic AI systems into enterprise production.) In early June, our team from Growth Acceleration Partners hosted an executive roundtable at the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Summit in New York City. The room was packed with CAIOs, CTOs and senior technology […]