A10XAI FDE — in 2 weeks

Consulting

Your first agent deployment, run by a Forward Deployed Engineer

You have a real use case and a demo that impressed everyone. What you do not have is the agent in production: the integrations are messier than the demo assumed, nobody has defined when the output is good enough to ship, and the FDE role you posted has been open for months.

I embed with your team and run the loop the role exists for: discovery, constraint mapping, scope surgery, evals, shadow rollout. The same loop I teach engineers at A10X, done inside your systems, with your data, next to your people.

1. Deployment diagnostic — 2 weeks, $12,500 fixed

For teams that need the plan before the build. You get four artifacts your engineers execute:

  • A constraint map: the integration points, the data quality reality, and what must never happen.
  • A v1 scope cut to the 2-3 intents worth shipping first, with everything else explicitly deferred.
  • An eval plan: golden sets, P0 failure classes, and the threshold that defines good enough to ship.
  • A shadow-rollout plan, including the kill switch and the story your leadership can live with.

2. Embedded FDE — 4 to 8 weeks

One agent use case, taken from demo to production with your team. I work inside your codebase and your meetings, your engineers learn the loop by shipping it with me, and the agent goes live behind evals and shadow mode instead of hope. Scope and pricing by conversation, after the diagnostic or a call.

One client at a time. I run A10X and take a single embedded engagement at once, so the work gets an FDE, not an agency.

Also: FDE hiring support

I help companies hire for this role. If you are building the loop rather than buying it: interview design, case-round calibration, and candidate assessment against the rubric the role actually needs. Days, not weeks.

Who is writing this

Armando Gonzalez. I spent 6 months as a Forward Deployed Engineer, help companies hire for the role, and run A10X, where engineers train on real FDE cases graded against the rubric hiring teams use. Consulting is the same work, done for you instead of taught.

Email me the use case

Or write to hello@a10x.dev directly. Tell me three things: the use case, the systems it touches, and what breaks if it fails. I reply within 2 business days with an honest read on whether this is a fit.

Looking to become an FDE rather than hire one? That is the main product: try a real case free.