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Forward Deployed Engineering — customer-facing AI engineering.
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Intermediate
Build an AI Business Case with a Skill That Won't Invent Numbers
A free AI skill that builds a funding-ready business case with options, an assumptions register and best, base and worst cases, and refuses to make up numbers.
Oct 14, 2026 10m
Foundations
Practise Forward Deployed Engineer Interviews with an AI Coach Skill
A free AI skill that runs timed FDE drills, client role-plays and deployment-design rounds and scores you against a rubric. Includes a real coaching session.
Oct 14, 2026 9m
Intermediate
How to Build the Business Case for an AI Project
How to build a credible AI business case: costs, value, adoption ramp and best, base and worst cases, with a clearly illustrative worked example.
Oct 11, 2026 10m
Foundations
Scoring AI Use Cases Before You Build Anything
How to choose a first AI use case: score value, data readiness, feasibility, risk and sponsor on one page, then test it with a short proof of concept.
Oct 11, 2026 9m
Intermediate
Forward Deployed Engineer in 2026: Skills, Role and Why Always-On Agents Need FDEs
What a Forward Deployed Engineer does in 2026, the FDE skill stack, why always-on agents like Dots and Grok Bot need FDEs, and how to train your team.
Oct 7, 2026 10m