Terminal, a platform that helps companies hire software engineers in more than 180 countries, has acquired Stationed AI, a Miami startup that places engineers inside client companies to build and deploy AI systems. The deal was announced on October 22, 2026.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Terminal is using the acquisition to launch Terminal AI, a services division that sends what it calls forward-deployed engineers into midmarket businesses. Stationed founder Ja'dan Johnson becomes general manager of the new unit, which has about 10 employees and 10 open roles and is recruiting engineers for its office in Miami's Wynwood district, Refresh Miami reported.
What Stationed built
Stationed describes itself as an engineering studio. Its engineers work alongside a client's operators to redesign workflows, build custom AI systems and put them into production, and engagements end with a system the client owns. Its website now carries a banner saying the company has been acquired by Terminal.
Stationed had deployed AI agents for companies in several industries, according to Refresh Miami. Johnson, who is originally from Jamaica, also founded Miami Hack Week, and he started out running AI workshops for executives, Superpower Daily reported.
None of the sources disclosed when Stationed was founded, whether it raised outside money or who its customers were.
“The future of AI shouldn't belong to the companies with the biggest budgets.”
Why Terminal is buying
Terminal has operated for nearly a decade and says it has helped companies including Hims & Hers, Calendly and GoPro hire thousands of engineers. Refresh Miami reported that it was founded in 2017 by Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir and the venture firm 8VC, Jack Abraham, founder of the startup studio Atomic, and chief executive Dylan Serota.
Forward-deployed engineering means a vendor's engineers sit with a customer to get software working on real problems. Terminal's announcement framed the new unit as a way to bring that model to companies beyond the Fortune 500.
"The future of AI shouldn't belong to the companies with the biggest budgets," Serota said in the announcement.
Terminal AI offers three services. Deploy builds custom AI agents and automations, starting with one painful workflow. Hire lets a client scale up the work or hire dedicated engineers through Terminal. Train provides playbooks to make a company's staff fluent in AI. Terminal says it delivers in weeks rather than months, although Superpower Daily noted that no outcome figures or prices for engagements have been published.
"Ambition has never been the scarce resource. Capacity has," Serota said in the announcement, describing companies that want to use AI but lack the engineers to do it. Johnson said Stationed's customers know their business and his team knows AI.
How the deal came together
The two companies spent about a month talking and working together before deciding to combine, Superpower Daily reported. Johnson said the hard part for most businesses is not access to AI models but putting them into practice.
"The hard part is putting AI into practice, connecting to systems, data, and workflows that actually run a business," he told Superpower Daily.
He told Refresh Miami he was excited to keep doing the same work at a larger scale and that Terminal AI would keep hiring.
Refresh Miami reported that Terminal AI plans to roughly double its team, with the new hires based at its Wynwood office in Miami.
What it means
For Terminal, the deal moves the company from matching companies with engineers to selling the engineering work itself. It can offer clients a team that builds an AI system first and then, if the work grows, hire permanent engineers through its existing platform.
For Stationed, a small team without disclosed funding, joining Terminal brings a sales channel to the companies already using Terminal to hire, and the backing of a better-known brand as it hires.
