Terminal Acquires Stationed AI to Bring Forward-Deployed Engineers Beyond the Fortune 500
New Terminal AI division launches a builder-first delivery practice to put AI to work for the mid-market.
MIAMI, October 22, 2026--Terminal, the smarter talent platform for hiring AI-fluent software engineers in 180+ countries, has acquired Stationed AI to launch a new services division Terminal AI. As OpenAI, Anthropic, and the world's largest consulting firms race to bring AI into major enterprises, Terminal is making a different bet: bringing hands-on AI engineering to the millions of businesses that lack enterprise-sized budgets and dedicated AI teams. By combining Terminal's decade of experience sourcing and scaling thousands of engineering hires with Stationed AI's deployment expertise, Terminal AI embeds real builders inside businesses to deliver working AI solutions in weeks, not months.
AI is starting to deliver on its promise. According to Boston Consulting Group, nearly 9 in 10 CEOs report cost or revenue benefits from AI in targeted areas.¹ But those results come from a study of large enterprises, which have resources to invest in dedicated AI teams and expensive consulting engagements. For the millions of businesses without those resources, realizing the same potential remains a challenge.
Terminal AI is built for businesses that believe more is possible with AI, but lack the talent and roadmap. Rather than starting with months of strategy and consulting, Terminal AI starts with a company's most painful workflow, embedding engineers to build and deploy custom AI agents, automations, and integrations in weeks. Companies that want to supercharge their go-to-market engines or streamline manual operations are already seeing success with Terminal AI deployments.
"Ambition has never been the scarce resource. Capacity has," said Dylan Serota, CEO and co-founder of Terminal. "The AI industry is pouring billions into transforming the world's largest enterprises, but millions of businesses are being left behind. They don't need a consulting firm telling them AI is important. They need engineers who can show up, understand their challenges, and build something that works. Terminal has found those elite engineers for hundreds of companies, and combined with Stationed AI's deployment expertise, it's a great match."
Founded by Ja'dan Johnson, who will lead Terminal AI as General Manager, Stationed AI was built to bring engineering closer to the work of business transformation. Rather than delivering recommendations or prototypes, its engineers work alongside operators to redesign workflows, build custom AI systems, and deploy them into production.