The FDE Academy
A programme that turns engineers into forward-deployed engineers: people who can sit with a business, find the right problem and ship an AI system that works.
Join the waitlistWhat a forward-deployed engineer does
A forward-deployed engineer sits with the customer and ships. The role covers business discovery, AI engineering, evaluation and production delivery. It is how we work at Oridom AI: start with the work, build where it will run, show progress every week, and hand over when it works.
Who it is for
Students and working engineers who can already write code and want to build AI systems that reach production.
Four stages, each ending in something you built
Foundations
Understand workflows, users, constraints and risks. You finish with a written brief for one real workflow, including what a right answer looks like.
Agents and evaluation
Build agents, retrieval, tool integrations and human approval steps. You finish with a working agent and its test set.
Deployment and operations
Release systems with monitoring, logging and security controls. You finish with that agent deployed and monitored.
The deployment itself
Work inside a real business workflow and communicate clearly. You finish with a handover to the team that will own the system.
What you leave with
A portfolio of four things you built yourself: a workflow brief, a working agent with its test set, a deployed and monitored system, and a completed handover.
How it is taught
Practical work, engineering reviews and real delivery problems, with few lectures.
Who teaches
The founders of Oridom AI: working engineers who build production AI systems. Between them they lead a faculty of about 100 AI instructors and have taught more than 10,000 students to build with AI.
After the programme
Strong graduates may be invited to work on Oridom AI projects.
No cohort is scheduled yet
Join the waitlist to hear when the first cohort is announced.
Tell us what you need.
Tell us about the work that slows your team down, or the team you want to train.