Forward deployed consulting
Copperwood Forward
Short, focused engagements inside your organization. We learn how the business runs, connect your systems, put AI to work on your data, and leave working software behind.
How forward deployment worksForward deployed consulting. Products built for the field.
We embed with your team, learn how the business really runs, and build what makes it work: integrations, AI agents, tools and features, running in your business rather than in a slide deck. Where the market has no tool for the job, we build one.
Explore our divisions Contact usOne company. Distinct divisions.
Copperwood Consulting Inc. is organized into divisions. Each has its own focus, and all of them work to one standard.
Airspace deconfliction
Skein
Software that plans, deconflicts and monitors drones sharing the same airspace, so they stay clear of each other, of restricted airspace and of each other's radio links.
About SkeinForward deployed consulting
Software that works in a demo often stops working at the customer: different data, permissions, security rules and processes, and a spreadsheet nobody admits runs the business. We close that gap. We sit with the people who run the operation, use modern AI to understand your systems fast, then build until it works.
What we build in the field
- AI agents connected to your CRM, databases, documents and billing, inside your permissions and security rules
- Integrations between systems that were never built to talk to each other
- Dashboards and internal tools your teams use every day
- Automation for the spreadsheet-and-email work that quietly runs the business
- New features built on site for the problem in front of us
Embed
We join your team on site and learn how the business really runs, from the people who run it.
Understand
Modern AI tools let us read your systems, data and documents fast: what connects to what, and where it breaks.
Build
We wire up the systems, write the code, build the agents and dashboards, and fix the integrations.
Hand over
Your team runs what we built. When the same problem keeps appearing, it becomes a product.
A Copperwood product
Skein
Airspace deconfliction for drone operations. Operators request flights; Skein finds each one a route and a time that keep it clear of every other aircraft, airspace restriction and radio link, then watches the flights as they happen.
- Plans routes in space and time, so no two drones are scheduled into the same place at the same moment.
- Assigns radio channels so that control links do not interfere.
- Re-routes flights automatically when unknown traffic or a newly closed area gets in the way.
- Exports to the tools operators already use, including Google Earth and TAK.
- Runs on a Windows laptop, with no internet connection needed.
In development: a working prototype, tested in simulation.
Sectors
We deploy wherever the business runs on many systems that have to work together.
Defence and aerospace
Drone operations, airspace and the systems around them.
Energy and infrastructure
Asset, finance and operations data connected and put to work.
Public sector and education
Services and workflows that span many systems.
Shipping and logistics
Warehouse, shipping and ERP data wired into one working picture.
Financial services
AI agents and automation for sales, service and operations.
Mobility and transport
Booking, dispatch and driver apps built end to end.
How we work
Three rules hold across every division.
In the field
We work where the work happens, beside the people who do it.
Build, not advise
Results are working software and connected systems, not slide decks.
Safe by design
Everything we connect respects your data, your permissions and your security rules.
Corporate information
- Legal name
- Copperwood Consulting Inc.
- Incorporation
- Federally incorporated in Canada, 2026
- Headquarters
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Divisions
- Copperwood Forward, Skein
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