Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Your AI. Grounded in real work.
A Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with your team to turn a business workflow into a usable AI solution. From scoping to integrations, testing and knowledge transfer.
Engineering, close to the work
An FDE — Forward Deployed Engineer — works alongside your users, IT team and operational constraints. The role connects business understanding with hands-on engineering. Hunter BI offers this delivery model as a scoped service engagement, not simply a supply of contractor profiles.
From context to everyday use
Three stages. One continuous line of responsibility.
01Business immersion
Observe a workflow with the people who run it. Understand exceptions, decisions and friction before choosing a model or writing code.
An agreed workflow, baseline and acceptance criteria.
02Embedded delivery
Build the useful path with approved sources and business tools. An API, MCP or existing connector is selected after checking access and technical feasibility.
A testable solution, bounded integrations and explicit approval rules.
03Validation & handover
Test representative tasks and difficult cases. Prepare operations, document limitations and equip your team before an approved go-live.
Acceptance results, documentation, knowledge transfer and an agreed next step.
What we build with you
Query approved information and prepare actions in an ERP or CRM, with human approval for consequential operations.
Find information in a bounded corpus, provide inspectable references and evaluate answers against your business questions.
Automate the agreed steps of a process, establish approval points and handle exceptions with your operational owners.
Understand an existing codebase, build an internal tool or integrate AI into a product, with scoped code reviews and tests.
A documented delivery reference
Hunter BI supported a client in connecting Claude AI to Sage X3 through a custom-built MCP. This reference illustrates our integration work; it is not presented as a certified FDE engagement or a guarantee of outcomes in your environment.
Explore the documented scopeAn engagement, not a black box
Hunter BI
Engineering, agreed integrations, evaluations, documentation and transfer of the delivery assets specified in the contract.
Your organisation
A business sponsor, IT counterparts, approved access, test users and acceptance decisions. Your approvals remain yours.
The proposal defines scope, delivery capacity, timeline, fees, ownership of deliverables and support. Licences, cloud usage, travel and out-of-scope work are explicitly addressed. No delivery duration or on-site presence is assumed.
Before we start
It is an engineering engagement in which a Forward Deployed Engineer works with your team to understand a business problem, build a solution in your environment and evaluate its use. Scope and responsibilities are agreed before work begins.
Consulting may stop at a recommendation; staff augmentation often centres on time or a role. Our FDE engagement combines business immersion with hands-on delivery, defined assets and acceptance criteria. Delivery capacity is set out in the proposal.
Hunter BI is based in Casablanca. Working language, time zone, remote collaboration and any on-site involvement are agreed during scoping, according to project needs and team availability.
No. This is an independent Hunter BI service. Forward Deployed Engineer describes our engagement model. Technologies and licences are selected for the use case; an engineer assigned by a model or platform vendor is not included or implied.
With your IT team, we define approved sources, required permissions, environments and human approvals. Hosting, logging, retention and security requirements are reviewed before confirming scope. No automatic compliance claim is made.
They depend on the workflow, integrations, access, security requirements and acceptance criteria. Following scoping, a proposal specifies fees, milestones, exclusions and approvals. There is no universal fixed package for fundamentally different engagements.
Start with your reality
Tell us about your team, systems and the friction to resolve. We will assess whether an FDE engagement fits before proposing a scope.
No delivery commitment before scope and proposal approval.