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Found total of 19 articles.

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 19: The Future of Forward Deployment

Chapter 19 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The final chapter — the automation wave, what the AI FDE cannot do, the rise of FDE-as-a-Service, the talent market evolution, the customer wave, and the function's longer-term maturity. Plus a closing word, and the book.

2026-06-14

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 18: Hiring and Building the Bench

Chapter 18 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE function is, in the end, a collection of people. A teaser on the hiring funnel, the four-round interview loop, compensation benchmarks ($170K–$600K+), onboarding, the career ladder, retention, and building a bench.

2026-06-13

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 17: Measuring Success with Outcome-Level Agreements

Chapter 17 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Standard SaaS metrics fail for the FDE function. A teaser on Outcome-Level Agreements (OLAs), the engagement dashboard, function-level metrics, building the dashboard, and the OLA as a strategic tool with customers.

2026-06-12

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 16: When Not to Build an FDE Function

Chapter 16 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The inverse case — when an FDE function is the wrong answer. A teaser on the five disqualifying conditions, the alternative models, the hybrid patterns, the premature-optimization trap, and what to build instead.

2026-06-11

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 15: The Economics of Forward Deployment

Chapter 15 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The economic case for the FDE function — and the traps inside it. A teaser on the three pricing models, the impact on gross margin, the services-company trap, multi-year contracts, and what the math implies for founders.

2026-06-10

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 14: Where Does the FDE Function Belong?

Chapter 14 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The placement decision, revisited. A teaser on the five real placement options, the federated model, the five factors that drive the choice, and what to do when the placement turns out to be wrong.

2026-06-09

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 13: When FDE Goes Wrong — Failure Modes and Lessons

Chapter 13 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Six named failure modes that kill FDE functions before they scale. A teaser on the Consulting Trap, the Snowflake-per-Customer trap, the Hero Engineer, the Demo-Debt Spiral, the Sponsor Collapse, and the Burnout Death Spiral.

2026-06-08

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 12: The New AI Wave — OpenAI, Anthropic, Runway, Greptile

Chapter 12 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The new wave rebuilds the FDE function for the agentic era. A teaser on how OpenAI, Anthropic, Runway, and Greptile each adapted the Palantir template — what's different, what's the same, and three patterns founders should watch.

2026-06-07

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 11: Palantir — The Original Playbook

Chapter 11 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The Palantir teardown — founding conditions, the Delta and Echo split, the long years of operational refinement, the AIP pivot, the AI FDE, and the three lessons for founders.

2026-06-06

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 10: Governance, Risk, and Safe Deployment

Chapter 10 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. In regulated industries, governance is not a tax — it's a feature. A teaser on the risk taxonomy, audit trails, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, the EU AI Act, sector compliance, and the governance dashboard.

2026-06-05

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 9: The Outer Loop — Scaling Field Intelligence

Chapter 9 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The outer loop begins the moment a deployment goes into production. A teaser on gravel roads and paved superhighways, the productization decision, the platform commit, measuring leverage, and the two-team handshake.

2026-06-04

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 8: The Inner Loop — Prototype to Production

Chapter 8 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. From the end of discovery to the first production milestone, the engagement runs on the inner loop. A teaser on the DARE framework, Minimum Viable Architectures, demo-driven development, the hardening phase, and when the customer wants to help.

2026-06-03

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 7: Customer Discovery and the Messy Reality

Chapter 7 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The most important fourteen days of any engagement are the first fourteen. A teaser on the three outputs of discovery, the async interview, the Weird Tuesday problem, the workflow inventory, and the Eval-Customer Split.

2026-06-02

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 6: The Soft Stack — Diplomacy and Strategy

Chapter 6 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The "soft stack" is the part of the FDE skillset most often dismissed as soft. A teaser on MECE, the Pyramid Principle, stakeholder mapping, Managing the Skeptic, the Diplomatic Register, and stress inoculation.

2026-06-01

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 5: The AI and Agentic Frontier

Chapter 5 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The technical bar that the FDE shares with platform engineers — plus the AI-specific skills that separate the role in 2026. A teaser on agents beyond chatbots, RAG, multi-agent orchestration, evals as a discipline, and model-agnostic deployment.

2026-05-31

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 4: The Technical Bar

Chapter 4 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The FDE is, first and last, an engineer. A teaser on the four technical primitives, the non-obvious skills, what you don't need to be, and the four-round interview that actually tests for it.

2026-05-30

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 3: Where the FDE Sits in the Org

Chapter 3 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The first organizational decision is also the most consequential — and the most often wrong. A teaser on the classification mistake, the pod structure, the seniority distribution, and the career-path problem that quietly kills FDE functions.

2026-05-29

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 2: The Last-Mile Problem in Enterprise AI

Chapter 2 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. Where SaaS stopped at the enterprise threshold, AI has to walk the last mile. A teaser on the four frictions at the last mile, the integration tax no demo shows, and why workflow redesign — not the model — is the product.

2026-05-28

The Forward Deployed Engineer, Chapter 1: What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

Chapter 1 of The Forward Deployed Engineer blog series. The opening chapter of a new book — the operator's contradiction, the Palantir origin, the anatomy of the role, why the AI moment needs it now, and how the FDE differs from every sister role it gets confused with.

2026-05-27

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