Every company we talk to is trying to go AI native, and almost all of them hit the same wall: they don't have enough engineers who know how to build agents. Senior AI engineers are scarce and slow to hire. Even a great one spends months learning the framework before they're shipping at full speed, and then they're one person.
So today we're launching Mastra Forward. Our engineers build your agents and get them to production, and they bring a factory of agents with them that does the work of a much bigger team. It's an AI engineering team with Mastra expertise, as a service: to work alongside your engineers, or in place of the hire you were about to make.
The people who built the framework
You get a named Mastra forward-deployed engineer who works in your codebase with your team. Behind them is the rest of Mastra engineering. If your product needs a new feature added to the framework, the people who wrote that code are a message away. Building on Knowledge? The engineers who build Knowledge join the conversation.
Nobody knows Mastra's internals better, and nobody has shipped more agents on it. That's the expertise you'd otherwise spend a year hiring for.
Plus a factory that multiplies them
Your Forward engineer doesn't work alone. We install Mastra Factory in your repo and set it up for your codebase, so our engineers can run a swarm of agents on your roadmap. One Forward engineer with a factory ships like a team.
You see how we work, too. Your team watches us use Factory on real projects, then picks it up themselves.
What you get
- A named forward-deployed engineer, plus access to Mastra core engineering when you need it
- Mastra Factory, running in your repo, set up for your codebase and operated by our team
- An Enterprise license on your choice of deployment: hosted, self-hosted, or BYOC
- A Trace Intelligence pool, with your evals run as a service rather than handed to you as a feature
- A quarterly architecture review covering diagramming, infrastructure, and roadmap
The code that lands in your repo is yours. When the work improves Mastra itself, whether that's the framework, Factory, Harness, or Knowledge, it goes into our core, where we maintain it for good. You never carry a fork.
Cheaper and faster than hiring
Forward is an annual engagement, invoiced quarterly or prepaid upfront at a discount. It costs less than one senior AI hire, doesn't require an onramp, and guarantees you work with a Mastra expert backed by the software factory Mastra uses to crank out 750+ PRs per week.
If you're an early-stage team looking for a lighter-touch way to work with us, our Design Partner Program is still the right place to start.
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Tell us what you're trying to build and where your team is stretched. Grab time to whiteboard with us.
