Mission clarity
Translate an operational bottleneck into one owned workflow, measurable outcome, scope boundary, and acceptance path.
Forward Deployed Engineer
One senior engineer who finishes the job.
A Laava Forward Deployed Engineer works inside your operation with your domain owner, owns the route from bottleneck to production, and is backed by the full Laava platform and team.
One accountable delivery owner, backed by the wider Laava engineering team and platform.
1Scoped mission
1Domain owner
SharedPlatform backlog
MISSION / PRODUCTION / REUSEDelivery model
Positioning
Close to the work, accountable for the outcome.
Production AI crosses business process, source data, systems, identity, security, evaluation, deployment, and adoption.
The FDE brings these boundaries together around one mission and makes decisions visible.
Laava remains responsible for the platform and the agreed delivery result.
- Start with the bottleneck before tooling
- Proof before scale or transformation
- Decisions based on operational reality
FDE model
What the FDE owns
The role connects delivery, productisation, and the operating lifecycle.
System delivery
Coordinate data access, integrations, permissions, agent behaviour, human controls, testing, and deployment.
Operational landing
Prepare users, owners, runbooks, incident paths, evaluation, acceptance, and the handoff into Operate & Expand.
Platform reuse
Separate client-specific work from generic patterns and return repeated capabilities to the platform. Every Launch after that starts further ahead.
Approach
One mission, one operating rhythm
The FDE works with a mandated domain owner and draws on the wider Laava team where specialist input is needed.
Step 01
Frame
Set the business outcome, process scope, system map, key risks, and definition of done.
Step 02
Ship
Build in short cycles with real process examples, including acceptance and failure paths.
Step 03
Operate
Make ownership, quality, incidents, changes, and service boundaries explicit before production dependency grows.
Step 04
Reuse
Record the reusable component, its provenance, tests, version, and the client-specific delta for the next Launch.
Where this fits
Where the FDE model works best
The model is strongest when implementation must cross organisational and technical boundaries without losing a single accountable mission.
The workflow depends on several systems, teams, or permission boundaries.
A domain owner can make decisions and provide access to users, systems, and process examples.
The route from demo to production and adoption is the actual bottleneck.
There are follow-on workflows that can reuse the platform foundation.
Engagement model
One mission, one accountable delivery team
Can we hire an FDE as open-ended capacity?We don't sell hours. We sell a working workflow.
Laava sells a scoped Platform Launch and an explicit Operate & Expand route. FDE time is part of the delivery plan. The mission, deliverables, acceptance, and ownership stay visible.
Does the FDE work alone?No. The FDE is backed by the platform and the Laava team.
Specialists can support architecture, integrations, security, operations, data, productisation, and quality. The client still has one clear delivery counterpart.
What returns to the platform?Patterns that recur or should be maintained centrally.
Generic connectors, contracts, runtime primitives, evaluation patterns, operations controls, and other reusable improvements remain Laava platform IP. Customer data, content, and agreed customer-specific configuration remain available to the customer under the contract.
First step
Discuss the outcome the FDE should own
Bring the workflow, systems, desired outcome, and production constraints. We will map the Platform Launch and delivery model needed to get there.
Response time
We typically respond within 24 hours