The Forward Deployed motion

Forward Deployed Engineers convert enterprise expertise into product IP.

A verbatim commitment, not a tagline. In the Findry FDE program an engineer works inside a design partner’s software estate, and every hour they spend there is designed to leave something durable behind: a new extractor, a graph-aware policy, a Blueprint template, a confirmed edge. Services are the fuel; the product is what accretes.

Land, Map, Tune, Codify, Execute, Scale

Six stages, each one leaving durable product behind.

The motion is deliberately not consulting overhead. Each stage feeds the product: what one deployment learns, every future customer inherits, because it lands as an extractor, a policy, or a template rather than a slide.

  1. 01

    Land

    Onboard a design partner and stand up their software estate in the graph from seeded, local, or cloned repos.

  2. 02

    Map

    Run extraction across their real code and config, then review graph gaps and low-confidence edges.

  3. 03

    Tune

    Confirm or reject candidate edges. Every human decision appends evidence and transitions status, into the evidence system, never around it.

  4. 04

    Codify

    Turn recurring findings into new extractors, policies, and Blueprint templates: captured expertise that ships to every customer.

  5. 05

    Execute

    Drive real Blueprints through the governed pipeline with the partner, sealing attestations at each step.

  6. 06

    Scale

    Feed FDE notes back as product tasks. What one deployment learns, the product keeps.

North-star metric: autopilot %, the share of changes flowing through governed automation. The FDE program exists to move that number, permanently.

What a design partner gets

A working graph of your software estate, and changes that shipped through it.

Your software estate in the graph

Extraction across a real slice of your software estate, with every edge carrying its evidence and confidence.

Governed changes, sealed

Real Blueprints driven through the governed pipeline with your team, each transition sealed into an audit trail you can export.

Durable artifacts

The extractors, policies, and Blueprint templates codified from your software estate stay yours to reuse, and improve the product for everyone.

We onboard a small number of design partners at a time. The parsers, graph, and governed workflow spine are real; anything simulated is labelled as such.

Common questions

Questions we get asked.

What is the Forward-Deployed Engineering program?
The Forward-Deployed Engineering program is a design-partner motion where a Findry engineer works inside your software estate. They stand it up in the graph, tune it by confirming or rejecting candidate edges, and drive real governed changes with your team. Every hour is designed to leave something durable behind, so services are the fuel and the product is what accretes.
How long does a pilot take?
A pilot runs in weeks, not quarters. The work is standing your software estate up in the graph, tuning it against your real code and config, and driving real governed changes through the pipeline with your team. We onboard a small number of design partners at a time, so the exact shape is scoped with you rather than fixed in advance.
What do we keep afterward?
You keep the populated graph of your software estate, the exportable evidence ledger from the changes you shipped, and the tuned adapters. The extractors, policies, and Blueprint templates codified from your software estate stay yours to reuse, and each one also improves the product for every future customer.