Presented at AI Engineer. Finance used to be bottlenecked on producing content. It is now bottlenecked on verifying it. An analyst who once spent the day building a model now spends it checking whether a machine’s output can be defended to a client, a committee, or a regulator. ...
Presented at AI Engineer. Most companies hire forward deployed engineers as an extension of go-to-market: a technical body to keep a large account happy. That’s the wrong frame. FDE is a product strategy. The job is to find the real problem, ship the smallest thing that solves it, and turn what you learned into leverage for the product. ...
Originally published on Anthropic’s blog Inside a platform that indexes 26M+ SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, IR presentations, consensus estimates, and private data across 14,000+ companies and 27 global markets, and how the team behind it built AI that validates every number to the exact filing, page, and line item. The quick pitch NameKepler Founded2025 FoundersVinoo Ganesh (CEO) and John McRaven (CTO) StackAWS, Rust, Python, containers for orchestration GrowthIndexed 26M+ SEC filings, 50M+ public documents, 1M+ private documents, and 14,000+ companies across 27 global markets in less than three months. Financial firms operate in a heavily regulated environment where reporting has to be auditable and accountable. Every figure in a regulatory filing, deal pitch, or research report needs to be verifiable against source documents. ...
Part of Lenny Rachitsky’s “The AI-Native Product Manager” free workshop series on Maven. Most products fail not because of bad engineering, but because teams build the wrong thing. They either overbuild features nobody asked for or underbuild solutions that miss the real problem. Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is the antidote. What is FDE? Forward Deployed Engineering is a methodology where technical teams embed directly with customers to witness how software meets reality. Instead of building from assumptions, FDEs develop customer instinct by being in the field — watching real users interact with real products under real conditions. ...
Originally published on Next Play If you work in tech, you should learn about Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE). It’s quickly become one of the most popular roles that nearly all fast-growing AI companies are looking for…at the same time, it’s the type of role very few people and companies seem to actually understand. I designed Project Frontline at Palantir, a program that sent over 250 engineers into live customer deployments. Those engineers are now at OpenAI, xAI, Anduril, and dozens of leading companies. ...