Forward Deployed Engineering
Tell Us the Outcome. We'll Build It in Your Environment.
Forward deployed engineering (FDE) is a delivery model where the engineer works inside your environment instead of at a vendor's office — building, configuring, and shipping a working system on your own platforms, using your real data and real constraints, and owning the outcome through production.
You bring the outcome: “we want to build an agent that handles X.” We bring the expertise, embed in your environment, and build it in your cloud, on your platforms, for you.
We wrote about this model — read our full breakdown in What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer?.
What an FDE engagement looks like
Access and quick wins
We get access, inventory the environment, and burn down the dangerous or highest-value items first. You see results in the first sprint, not a report in week six.
Build and iterate
We build the specific outcome you asked for directly in your environment — an agent, a remediation pipeline, an integration — in priority order, and every recurring piece gets codified so it stays working.
Handoff
Runbooks, documentation, and training move ownership to your team. Exit criteria get defined at the start, so both sides know what done means. An FDE who never leaves is just an expensive contractor.
What FDE covers
- An engineer embedded in your Slack, your repos, and your change process
- Building and configuring solutions inside your actual environment, not a demo tenant
- Work on any cloud, any platform, any stack you run
- Full knowledge transfer so your team owns the system after we leave
Who this is for
FDE is for teams where implementation, not strategy, is the bottleneck — you know the outcome you want, and you need an engineer who can build it inside your environment and hand you the keys.
Have an outcome in mind?
Tell us what you want built and we'll get an engineer into your environment.
Talk to us about FDE