FDE
Forward Deployed Engineer
A field-facing role spanning diagnosis, engineering, adoption and outcome validation; scope varies across organizations.
From fieldwork to lasting business capability.FORWARD-DEPLOYED ENGINEERING
CONCEPT ATLAS / 30
A shared working language.
Concise definitions, real boundaries and module links. Knowing when not to use a technology matters as much as naming it.
A system where a model selects steps and tools from goals and feedback; autonomy is bounded by evidence and authority.
A predefined execution path that may include model calls; it is not necessarily an autonomous agent.
A reusable task specification with inputs, method, tools, acceptance and failure handling. Preserve provenance and licensing.
Explicit objects, relationships and actions that align business meaning with operations.
Deciding whether records refer to the same entity while controlling false and missed merges.
A governed definition of metrics, dimensions and calculations, distinct from document retrieval.
Generate with retrieved material; retrieval does not ensure applicability or answer correctness.
A protocol connecting AI applications to tools and context, not automatic authorization or semantics.
A testable definition of inputs, outputs, authority, bounds, errors, idempotency and outcome states.
Separate standard support, configuration, adaptation, product gaps and unsupported needs.
A scope and deliverables statement with responsibilities, timing and acceptance; contracts need professional review.
A POC tests feasibility; a pilot tests bounded real use, adoption and value. Neither automatically proves production readiness.
A teaching term for the minimal data, tool, model and logging architecture needed for one working slice.
Measure capability and failure modes through tasks, grading and outcome evidence, not chat impressions.
Domain-reviewed representative tasks and expected behavior, maintained with version control.
A test set excluded from tuning to check generalization; repeated tuning against it defeats the purpose.
Check preservation of important capabilities, separating safety gates from general quality.
A combination of input, tool and output safeguards; a prompt alone is not a security boundary.
Untrusted content attempts to redirect instructions or exceed authority, including through retrieved documents.
Repeating the same valid request does not duplicate effects; key/payload conflicts require explicit handling.
A corrective action for effects that cannot simply be rolled back; distinct from transaction rollback.
Correlated model, tool and outcome events for a task; does not require storing private internal reasoning.
SLOs define measurable objectives; SLAs formalize service commitments with scope, windows and responsibilities.
Commonly an internal Operational Level Agreement in IT service management, not a universal Outcome-Level Agreement.
Treatment change minus comparison change, with identification assumptions required for causal interpretation.
The absolute difference between rates: 20% to 24% is four points and a 20% relative increase.
An outcome-linked commercial model requiring attribution, risk and responsibility definitions.
Actual workflow use, distinguishing trial, sustained use, edited acceptance and execution.
Revenue retained in an existing customer cohort after expansion, contraction and churn, excluding new customers.
No matching concepts.
Technical definitions link to official documentation in their modules. Commercial and operating definitions are teaching explanations; actual organizational and contractual definitions prevail.