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The FDE Transition

Forward deployed engineers are the fastest-growing seat in AI and the least defined. This series is written for the people in the seat and the leaders building around it: what the role is, what product, engineering, and sales owe it, what it owes them back, and how the work becomes roadmap. Two parts a week, each one written against that week's findings. Read in order; part 1 is the thesis and everything after is the operating model.

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  1. 01The FDE Is the Product Builder Wearing a Visitor BadgeOpenAI raised $4 billion for a deployment company. Anthropic launched a $1.5 billion one. The role they hire for is the Product Builder, from the services side.7 min readSep 26
  2. 022,000 of 17,000: The FDE Shortage Is a Product ProblemOnly 2,000 of 17,000 US forward deployed engineers can deliver real ROI, and demand is up 2,100%. The gap is not talent. It is what the product lets an FDE do.9 min readSep 26
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