Forward Deployed Engineering

Engineers who ship in your environment.

Most vendors stop at the edge of your stack. FDEmax embeds a forward deployed engineer (FDE): a senior engineer who works inside your systems, backed by AI agents that submit every change as a reviewable pull request. We spend the first 30 days mapping how your work actually gets done, then ship improvements in focused sprints you approve one at a time.

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Embedded / Git-native/ Governed

01The Problem

Modern software fails at the last mile.

Product vendors ship features and stop at your firewall. Consultancies ship decks. Staff augmentation ships resumes. None of them own outcomes inside your environment, where the real constraints live: legacy systems, compliance, tangled integrations, and code nobody wants to touch. Meanwhile that legacy estate gets a little slower and a little less secure every quarter.

02The Insight

The highest-leverage engineer sits inside the customer environment.

That is the forward deployed engineer model, and it is why the FDE has become one of the fastest-growing roles in software. An FDE does not advise from outside or wait for perfect requirements. They own production code in the customer environment: turning vague problems into scoped solutions, writing integration and workflow code, and carrying it through deployment and production support.

FDEmax exists to give you that model without building the function yourself.

03The Solution

Embedded FDEs, multiplied by git-native agents.

A senior engineer embeds in your team and owns delivery. Behind them, our git-native agents work where your code already lives: opening pull requests for modernization, security fixes, tests, and cleanup in a steady stream your team reviews. Every change is reviewed. Nothing lands without your approval.

Legacy modernizationSecurity remediationPerformance engineeringCI/CD and DevOpsSystems integrationFeature delivery

04How It Works

Three parts, one delivery model.

Embedded FDE

A senior engineer inside your repos, environments, and standups. They scope vague problems into shippable slices and are accountable for what merges.

Git-Native Agents

Agents operate where your code lives. Every change arrives as a reviewable pull request with tests and a clear description. The PR is the unit of work.

Guardrails and Oversight

Approval checkpoints, audit logs, and least-privilege access. Humans review everything that ships. Your security team gets answers, not surprises.

05Start Here

The Discovery Sprint. 30 days.

One operation, one embedded FDE, one month. An operation is a team and the workflows it runs, whether that work lives in spreadsheets and inboxes or in a codebase and its pipeline. We will not promise production code before we understand how it actually gets done. The first sprint is discovery, and it ends with evidence, not a sales pitch.

What comes next: when the map shows work worth doing, we scope delivery sprints around the highest-value workflow. Each sprint targets one improvement, with success criteria agreed before it starts. You decide sprint by sprint whether the evidence earns the next one.

What you get

01A senior FDE embedded in your team in week one: interviews, systems, code, spreadsheets, and the exception paths nobody documents
02A map of how the work actually happens today, not how the process doc says it happens
03Workflow improvements ranked by expected value: hours, cost, and error rates, quantified
04Clear boundaries for any future automation: what a system may do and what stays human
05A prioritized roadmap you own, whether or not we continue

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06Business Impact

Output compounds. Headcount doesn't have to.

Instead of

Hiring two or three engineers for the backlog
Waiting three to six months for them to ramp
Growing fixed costs before seeing output

You get

Improvement work shipped in scoped sprints
Senior judgment inside your environment on day one
Capacity you can scale down as easily as up

07Why FDEmax

Built for the way delivery actually works.

Speed

Your operation mapped and opportunities quantified in 30 days. Delivery sprints scoped in weeks, not transformation quarters.

Ownership

We own what we ship, through deployment and production support. No handoff cliff.

Governance-first

Approval checkpoints, audit logs, and least-privilege access from day one. Your compliance is the spec, not an obstacle.

Git-native

Every change is a reviewable pull request with tests. Your git history is the audit trail.

Put an engineer inside the problem.

Tell us where the work is stuck. We will scope a Discovery Sprint around it.

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