Budgeting Your First FDE Engagement
What a first FDE engagement really costs, the budget lines everyone forgets, and a sample budget you can steal, line by line.
Read article → FDE FundamentalsA Short History of the Forward Deployed Engineer
From Palantir's government gigs in the 2000s to today's AI labs, the FDE went from a weird title to tech's hottest role. Here's how it happened.
Read article → Case Studies & StoriesThe Dashboard That Changed the Monday Meeting
Ninety minutes of arguing about whose spreadsheet was right became thirty minutes of decisions. The fix: one screen, seven numbers, and agreed definitions.
Read article → Tools & StackChoosing an LLM API: A Builder's Field Guide
Benchmarks won't pick your LLM. Task shape, cost at volume, latency under load, and data policy will, plus the twenty-example eval you can run this afternoon.
Read article → Prototyping & Delivery9 MVP Mistakes FDEs See Over and Over
From imaginary users to premature multi-tenancy, these nine MVP mistakes show up in nearly every failed first version. Here's the checklist and the fixes.
Read article → AI & DataThe AI Readiness Audit: Is Your Data Good Enough?
Before you buy AI anything, run this five-question audit: truth, volume, history, freshness, documentation. Then score it honestly.
Read article → Industry PlaybooksFDE in Insurance: Modernize Without Rip-and-Replace
The policy admin core isn't your bottleneck; the glue work around it is. How embedded engineers modernize insurance in weeks, not fiscal years.
Read article → Hiring & CareersFDE Pay vs. Big Tech: The Honest Trade-Off
Yes, FDE base pay runs below big tech. What the offer letter hides is how differently the two paths compound. The honest math, both directions.
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