FDE Pricing Models: Day Rate, Retainer, Outcome?
Day rate, retainer, or outcome-based? The real difference between FDE pricing models is who holds the risk when things go sideways.
Read article → FDE FundamentalsWhy the Forward Deployed Engineer Role Exists at All
The demo was beautiful, the pilot evaporated, and nobody technically failed. The failure lived in the seams. Why the FDE role exists, mapped.
Read article → Case Studies & StoriesHow We Automated 40 Hours of Invoices a Week
700 invoices a week, one bookkeeper, one ruler. How extract-validate-review took 40 hours of retyping down to 6, with the boring parts left in.
Read article → Tools & StackPostgres for Everything: The Default Database
Your architecture diagram has five datastores and twelve users. Why boring old Postgres, JSONB and pgvector included, is still the default answer.
Read article → Prototyping & DeliveryCutting MVP Scope Without Killing the Product
Your MVP ballooned because scope never arrives as a villain. The workshop that separates needed-to-learn from needed-someday, and what never to cut.
Read article → AI & DataLLM Document Processing: Invoices, PDFs, Reality
Your invoice pile is structured data wearing a costume. The extract-validate-review pattern, honest accuracy ranges, and when to build vs buy.
Read article → Industry PlaybooksThe FDE Playbook for Logistics and Freight Ops
The TMS handles none of what happens at 5am on the dock. Why freight ops is the FDE's natural habitat, the four builds that always pay, and a 90-day map.
Read article → Hiring & CareersInside the Palantir FDE Interview: What They Test
The loop is not testing graph algorithms; it is testing whether you would survive a client site. Decomp questions and the deploy-with-them test, decoded.
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