Forward-Deployed Engineers Are The Training Wheels For AI Reinvention
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Deloitte named a forward deployed engineering (FDE) practice back in December 2025. At the time it read as a consulting rebrand with better vocabulary. Then, between May 4th and July 15th this year, four technology providers committed roughly $9 billion to putting their own engineers inside their customers’ buildings. Anthropic opened with a $1.5 billion enterprise services venture alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, […]
Deloitte named a forward deployed engineering (FDE) practice back in December 2025. At the time it read as a consulting rebrand with better vocabulary. Then, be...