[ The discipline and the method ]
The DEPLOY Method
Diagnose the work. Establish the outcome contract. Prove the smallest wedge. Land inside the enterprise. Operate from evidence. Yield ownership and compound learning.
- Elaboration
- Diagnose asks: How does the work actually move, especially where the documented process breaks? Establish asks: What is the smallest safe wedge that can produce decision-grade evidence of workflow impact? Prove asks: Can the smallest wedge meet the mission contract under representative, edge, adversarial, and changing conditions? Land asks: Can the proven wedge live inside enterprise identity, data, control, and operating boundaries without losing its evidence? Operate asks: Can users adopt the system while the team detects, contains, and learns from behavior in production? Yield asks: Can the named owner operate, change, and recover the system—and what permitted learning should compound?
- Source record
- Forward-Deployed Engineering Standard FDE-S/1.0, DEPLOY method
[ Related terms ]
- Forward deployed engineering
- FDE-01 · Field discovery and workflow reconstruction
- FDE-02 · Outcome framing and technical scoping
- FDE-03 · Enterprise architecture and integration
- FDE-04 · Provider-portable AI systems engineering
- FDE-05 · Evaluation, verification, and reliability
- FDE-06 · Security, governance, and responsible authority
- FDE-07 · Production operations and incident response
- FDE-08 · Client leadership and adoption
- FDE-09 · Ownership transfer and field-to-product learning
[ Where this is discussed ]
- Build the third layer before anyone hires you for it.FIELD GUIDE · Sep 5, 2026
- The faster the agent, the stronger the engineering loop.PRACTICE · Aug 12, 2026
A definition here is not a claim about any person, engagement, or outcome.