METHODOLOGY · FDE
Forward Deployed Engineering
Forward Deployed Engineering — we embed engineers in your operations instead of emailing a spec to an outsourcer. It's why we can ship production systems in weeks.
Six principles
01
On-site, not at arm's length
FDE engineers sit in your ops meetings, look at your real data, and use your internal tools. Requirements aren't interviewed out of you — they're seen on the ground.
02
Score the use case, then build
Every candidate use case is scored and ranked on impact, feasibility and risk. We only build what people will actually use once it's in production.
03
Verifiable every week
No months-long black box. We ship a working version every week, so you course-correct the moment something's off and sunk cost stays minimal.
04
Evaluation is infrastructure
Launch isn't the finish line. Every system leaves our hands with eval benchmarks and monitoring — quality you can manage by the numbers.
05
Traceable and auditable
Answers cite sources, processes leave a trail, and models have model cards. AI in regulated industries has to be legible to audit and regulators.
06
Leave the capability with your team
Delivery is training. When the project ends, your team can operate it, iterate on it — and scope the next use case themselves.
From one meeting to a production system
PHASE 0 · 1 meeting
Use-case workshop
From zero to a shippable use case: audit processes and data, score and rank, define success metrics and ROI. You leave the room knowing what the first use case is, what it's worth, and how many weeks to launch.
PHASE 1 · 2–6 weeks
Embedded FDE build
Engineers embed in your environment and ship a working version each week. Data pipelines, eval benchmarks and the interface advance together, with stakeholders seeing progress every week.
PHASE 2 · from week 6
Launch and scale
Phased ramp, monitoring and governance in place, with the validated pattern replicated to more processes and departments. The PoC no longer stalls in the lab.
On the ground
Requirements are seen in the room, not interviewed out of you
FDE engineers sit in your ops meetings, look at real data, and use internal tools. What we find on the ground often differs from what the spec says — and that's the problem worth solving.
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Coding together
Your team sits right beside us
Delivery is training. Your engineers pair with the FDE team, so when the project ends the ability to operate and iterate stays with your team instead of leaving with the consultants.
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Watching the numbers grow
Weekly delivery briefs your leadership can read
Throughput, catch rate, hours saved — live metrics for every workflow on one board. Stakeholders don't wait for a quarterly report to know whether the AI is working.
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A new era of
AI-native products
Ship your first AI use case in weeks, not quarters.