A LatAm EdTech Leader Cut PR Review Time 20% Post-Merger

One of Latin America's largest education technology companies had grown through rapid M&A, leaving engineering practices fragmented across multiple codebases. Some developers used coding tools like Cursor and Claude, but only for basic cases, and there was no standardized way to deploy AI agents across the company's repositories. Leadership, connected to Lazer through the company's private equity partner, wanted to lift engineering throughput and quality without a disruptive reorganization.

Lazer embedded a senior forward-deployed engineer directly into the client's team. The first weeks established the foundation: onboarding into the company's systems, a technical audit, KPI definition with leadership, and a weekly delivery cadence. An L&D plan was built to raise the broader team's velocity on agent-assisted work, including hands-on sessions that the client team embraced.

The core technical deliverable is a package for the company's repositories that lets AI agents be deployed in a standardized way across its post-M&A codebase sprawl, turning ad-hoc individual tool usage into an organizational capability. A ticket-to-PR agent is live in the cloud, with one-click ticket delegation from the company's project management system rolling out next. The engagement was extended beyond its original scope on the strength of the results.

Lazer embedded a senior forward-deployed engineer directly inside the client's team rather than delivering from outside. The first weeks focused on foundations: onboarding into the company's systems, running a technical audit of the fragmented post-acquisition codebases, defining KPIs with leadership, and setting a weekly delivery cadence. In parallel, the engineer designed a learning-and-development plan to raise the wider team's velocity on agent-assisted work, running hands-on sessions that developers adopted. The central build was a deployment package that lets AI coding agents run in a standardized way across the company's many repositories, converting scattered individual tool use into a repeatable organizational capability. On top of that package, the team stood up a ticket-to-PR agent hosted in the cloud, and is now rolling out one-click ticket delegation from the company's project management system. Decisions throughout favored measurement and adoption over imposition: KPIs made the change visible, and enablement ensured the gains would hold after the engineer rolled off. The engagement was later extended beyond its original scope.

Companies that have grown through acquisition and need engineering standardization and AI-agent leverage across fragmented codebases, particularly PE portfolio companies under productivity mandates.