# Mastra launches Forward, an AI engineering service with forward-deployed engineers

> Original title: Introducing Mastra Forward

- Source: Mastra Blog
- Published: 2026-11-11T05:00:00.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/vcbcup2a4dkgydddobz43ccso
- Original: https://mastra.ai/blog/introducing-mastra-forward

## Summary

Mastra launches Forward, an annual AI engineering service that provides a named forward-deployed engineer, access to Mastra core engineering, and Mastra Factory running in the customer's repo. Customers get an Enterprise license on hosted, self-hosted, or BYOC deployment, a Trace Intelligence pool, and a quarterly architecture review. Forward is invoiced quarterly or prepaid upfront at a discount.