How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise
Latent Space Richard MacManus
Cursor is building a forward-deployed engineering team to help enterprises implement AI agents across their entire software development lifecycle, moving beyond individual coding assistants to what the company calls an "AI software factory." The team plans to grow tenfold by the end of December, hiring software engineers with at least five years of experience and proven track records deploying production systems at companies like Spotify, Rippling, and Palantir. This shift addresses the enterprise challenge of scaling AI adoption beyond early adopters to enable consistent automation across teams, processes, and organizational functions.
Why it matters
Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.
