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.