Forward Deployed Engineering
Engineers who embed, build and ship inside your environment.
A Forward Deployed Engineer joins your team, works in your systems and builds alongside your people instead of advising from a distance. What they leave behind is working, not a set of recommendations.
What an FDE is
Not a consultant. A member of your team who happens to be ours.
| Aspect | Traditional consulting | Forward Deployed Engineer |
|---|---|---|
| Where they work | Remote assessments and scheduled workshops | On site and in your tools, next to your team |
| How they learn your environment | Interviews and diagrams | The same access, tickets and change windows as your engineers |
| What you get | A findings report and a roadmap | Working systems in production |
| Who builds it | Handed to your team or a third party | The engineer who designed it |
| When they leave | The report is the hand-off | Documented, your people trained, support in place |
What they bring
Idea to production, without changing hands.
Every FDE has worked across infrastructure, control systems and code. That's why they can take a solution all the way into your real environment.
IT INFRASTRUCTUREThey know why the pilot can't reach the data, and how to fix identity, firewall and network paths properly.
OT / ICSThey respect the change window, the safety system and the operator who has to live with the result.
SOFTWAREThey write the integration themselves instead of filing a ticket asking someone else to.
AIModels, agents and governance, fitted to everything to the left.
How an engagement works
Discover. Embed. Build. Hand off.
- 01 · 2–3 weeksDiscoverWalk the site, map systems and data paths, and pick the problems where automation or AI actually pays off.You get: a prioritized problem list with the constraints written down.
- 02 · OngoingEmbedJoin your standups, ticket queues and change windows, with the same access and accountability as your engineers.You get: one shared backlog and no parallel process.
- 03 · 6–12 weeksBuildShip working solutions inside your real environment, tested against production constraints.You get: solutions running in production.
- 04 · 2–4 weeksHand off & scaleDocument it, train your people, and extend what works to the next site or team.You get: runbooks, trained owners and a plan for the next site.
Typical outcomes
Measured in production, not in slides.
PRODUCTIVITY40%fewer manual hours on patch and change reporting
SECURITY23OT zones segmented and remote-access paths closed
AI IN PRODUCTION6AI solutions running in production, not stuck in pilot
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