Forward-deployed engineer formation
Learn the method. Ship the work.
Eight modules. Production-shaped missions. One standard for evidence that survives outside the classroom.
Formation is authored. Live cohort delivery and qualification issuance are not active.
Choose where to enter.
One system. Four views of the work.
The DEPLOY Method
Carry the work from ambiguity to ownership.
DEPLOY is the field rhythm. Each move produces evidence before the engineer receives more authority.
01
Diagnose
How does the work actually move, especially where the documented process breaks?
Mission charter, stakeholder map, and observation boundary02
Establish
What is the smallest safe wedge that can produce decision-grade evidence of workflow impact?
Outcome contract and wedge decision record03
Prove
Can the smallest wedge meet the mission contract under representative, edge, adversarial, and changing conditions?
Runnable wedge and provider-neutral behavioral contract04
Land
Can the proven wedge live inside enterprise identity, data, control, and operating boundaries without losing its evidence?
Production-shaped enterprise integration slice05
Operate
Can users adopt the system while the team detects, contains, and learns from behavior in production?
Production-readiness and staged-rollout record06
Yield
Can the named owner operate, change, and recover the system—and what permitted learning should compound?
Owner-accepted transfer package and owner-executed change/recovery record
The formation sequence
Eight missions. Built to be completed in motion.
12-week cohort formation of structured formation can be followed, where authorized, by supervised residency. The runway is policy—not a time-to-competence claim.
94 min
Diagnose the work, establish the outcome
Run evidence-led discovery, reconstruct the real workflow, and convert ambiguity into a falsifiable outcome contract without prescribing a model first.
87 min
Scope and architect the mission
Translate the outcome contract into a thin, reversible system design with explicit deterministic, model, tool, human, and operating boundaries.
103 min
Land inside enterprise systems
Build a production-shaped vertical slice through identity, data, legacy interfaces, tools, human gates, telemetry, and recovery.
109 min
Engineer provider-portable AI systems
Own the behavioral contract, isolate provider capabilities behind adapters, and make model selection an evidence-backed engineering decision.
114 min
Operate an evaluation and reliability control system
Convert the outcome contract into layered evals, detect a behavior regression, and make release decisions from failure evidence rather than demos.
102 min
Bound authority and earn authorization
Threat-model the landed system, design least-privilege controls and evidence, and defend an authorization recommendation under attack.
118 min
Operate adoption, rollout, and incidents
Move a proven system through staged authority, measure accepted outcomes and adoption, and lead incident response under changing evidence.
102 min
Yield ownership and compound field learning
Transfer operation and change to a named client owner, defend the complete mission, and turn permitted field evidence into reusable product learning.
Inside the work
Instruction ends where judgment begins.
Inspect one real lesson structure and one production-shaped exercise. Provisioned workspaces remain private.
Sample lesson
Prompting as specification
Prompts are programs in natural language. Write them with intent, context, constraints, and acceptance tests.
Inspect lesson architecture →Field exercise
Hold or ship the support agent
A support team wants to move a ticket agent from model M1 to M2 before Monday. You have one release packet, a segmented eval, and pressure to take the cheaper model live.
Try a bounded assessment →The evidence bar
Completion is visible. Entrustment is earned elsewhere.
The current authored standard contains ten conjunctive evidence gates. Training progress cannot substitute for production experience or independent human judgment.
evidence gates
- 01Unassisted baseline work sample
- 02Discovery and outcome contract
- 03Enterprise integration slice
- 04Provider-portable system
- 05Evaluation and reliability control
- 06Security and authority review
- 07Production, adoption, and incident command
- 08Supervised field mission
- 09Ownership transfer and field learning
- 10Integrated qualification defense
The standard is inspectable. The current qualification instrument is not preregistered and issuance is unavailable.
Inspect the qualification constitution →LockedIn Labs FDE