Terminal buys Stationed AI to bring hands-on AI engineering to midmarket businesses

Terminal is moving beyond recruiting engineers to putting them directly inside businesses to build AI systems. On October 22, 2026, it announced the acquisition of Miami startup Stationed AI and the launch of Terminal AI, a services division aimed at midmarket companies that lack dedicated AI teams and enterprise-sized budgets.

From workshops to an acquisition

Stationed founder Ja’dan Johnson will lead the division as general manager. The acquisition combines Stationed’s experience deploying AI with Terminal’s infrastructure for finding and managing engineering talent. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Johnson’s route to the deal began with conversations with executives who wanted to understand AI but were unsure how to use it, Refresh Miami reported. He organized workshops while building Stationed, which had deployed AI agents across several industries. After connecting with Terminal’s leadership, including CEO Dylan Serota, the companies spent roughly a month talking and working together before deciding to combine.

Build first, then hire and train

Terminal AI says each engagement starts with one painful workflow, rather than months of strategy consulting. Its “forward-deployed engineers”—engineers who work directly alongside a customer’s staff—learn how the business operates and build custom AI agents, automations and connections to existing systems. The company organizes that work into three linked services:

• Deploy: Engineers embed with the business and build AI systems around valuable workflows. Terminal promises working deployments in weeks, not months, but provides no measured delivery-time results.
• Hire: Customers can use Terminal’s talent platform to add embedded engineers as an engagement grows, or recruit dedicated engineers to join their own teams.
• Train: Practical instruction and guidance tailored to employees’ roles are intended to help customer teams take ownership of the systems and extend what the engineers build.

Terminal says customers are seeing success in sales and marketing work and manual operations. It provides no measured customer outcomes or engagement prices, leaving its affordability pitch unquantified.

“The hard part is putting AI into practice, connecting to systems, data, and workflows that actually run a business.”

Ja’dan Johnson, in Terminal’s acquisition announcement

Recruiting engineers in Wynwood

Terminal AI has approximately 10 employees and another 10 open positions, according to Refresh Miami. Filling those openings would roughly double the division’s current headcount. Johnson said the company was actively recruiting engineers to work from its Wynwood office in Miami.