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FOR COMPANIES BUILD THE CAPABILITY

Hire for the work—not the résumé.

Define what your Forward Deployed Engineer must own, assess candidates against one published standard, and see the evidence behind every judgment.

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THE COMPANY OUTCOME

A qualified pipeline with the reasoning attached.

Open any assessed candidate and see how they performed across Builder, Translator, and Owner—with verbatim evidence from the conversation.

Keep human judgment on top. Advance, hold, reject, add the context the transcript cannot capture, or override a score with a recorded reason.

WHAT THE PLATFORM PROVIDES

Consistency without surrendering judgment.

01

One published standard

The rubric comes from the demands of the role, not from whichever interviewer happened to be available.

02

Evidence, not vibes

Every dimension includes transcript quotes and a direct note on what that evidence demonstrates.

03

Comparable at volume

Chat and voice candidates land in the same ranking through one scoring pass over the completed transcript.

HOW IT WORKS FOR COMPANIES

From role definition to a defensible decision.

01Define the deployment outcome

Clarify the customer, workflow, stack, operating constraints, and what the FDE must own.

02Assess real project evidence

Candidates defend real work across Discover, Design, Build, Deploy, and Scale.

03Review the reasoning

See the three scores, verbatim evidence, full transcript, strengths, gaps, and recommendation.

04Apply human judgment

Advance, hold, reject, override, and add company context with a clear decision trail.

DESIGN THE ROLE CORRECTLY

Do not turn an FDE into a traveling ticket queue.

The role works when it has a measurable outcome, direct customer context, technical authority, and a clear path to production ownership.

DO

Give the FDE an outcome.

  • Direct access to users and decision-makers
  • Authority to reshape the workflow
  • A production definition of done
  • Fast feedback from the field
AVOID

Giving the FDE a backlog.

  • Unbounded implementation requests
  • Ownership without decision authority
  • Success measured by demos or activity
  • A wall between builders and users

START WITH THE OUTCOME

What are you trying to put into production?

Tell AI Xccelerate about the workflow, stack, team, and timeline. We will help you define the FDE role and the right assessment path.

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