FDE services for busy enterprises

Get your most painful, most expensive problem solved. Our FDE takes on the problem, works out a practical solution, and puts it into production—without demanding your time or pulling you off your core project.

Embedded in days
1st demo in 1 week
Full accountability for the outcome

Trusted by 200+ enterprises globally

IF A SWISS ARMY KNIFE WAS AN ENGINEER

Not another vendor you have to manage

Deployed to your team

FDEs deploy to your team and work directly with your technical and business stakeholders, developing a deep understanding of your business, domain, and targets.

Owns the solution end-to-end

A small FDE pod (2-3 senior specialists) covers the entire solution, from data ingestion to model integration to UX/UI design and application development.

Builds fast, ships faster

With reusable blueprints, frameworks, and agentic engineering setups, FDEs deliver prototypes in days, production-grade systems in weeks.

Focuses on outcome

FDE success is measured by real business impact, not hours billed—dollars saved, menial work reduced, production multiplied.

Problems that don't move—until an FDE takes them on

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AI pilots that never go live

FDE builds for production from day one, so you don't end up in the 42%* of companies that abandon AI initiatives before they take off (*S&P, 2025). While other companies waste their AI budgets, you justify the spend and deliver return on AI investment.

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Business problems no one understands

Different stakeholders tell different sides of the story. No one sees the whole picture. No one has bandwidth to figure it out. So nothing moves. An FDE gets to the bottom of the problem first, then builds a practical solution to remove this problem for good.

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Missing in-house tech skills

An FDE closes the tech and stack gaps that prevent you from moving forward. Legacy integrations, platform migrations, AI infrastructure setup—anything your in-house team can’t cover, an FDE can.

See it in action: Insurance company 3x’s analyst throughput with agentic AI

A small FDE team helps a large insurance company turn slow, manual claim handling into an automated pipeline, giving analysts hours of time back.

5s to a full claim summary
3x faster claim handling

insurer speeds up claim handling with multi-agent application

Don't take our word for it

“Hiflylabs feels like an extension of our own team. They combine stellar engineering with a genuine commitment to our business, consistently delivering long-term solutions that provide real value to our stakeholders.”

Maxime Lagresle

Senior Director of Data, Veronica Beard

How forward deployed engineering services work

Embed
FDE embeds into the team and gets up to speed in days: runs a tech audit, gathers domain knowledge, maps dependencies and connections.
Scope
FDE defines a goal, builds the scope around it, and steers it along the way (if needed) to make sure what was promised is delivered.
Build
FDE does all the hands-on work, from quick prototyping to the full build, developing inside your environment, within your infrastructure and constraints.
Ship
FDE builds for production, deploys an enterprise-grade solution, and integrates it into your systems and workflows for smooth adoption.
Enable
FDE transfers knowledge and ownership back to you and enables your team to scale and build up without any permanent dependency ahead.

Why enterprises choose Hifly FDEs

Full-stack delivery and domain experts

Data, AI, apps, and UX/UI under one roof
Dedicated squads of domain experts
Specialising in data and AI since 2015

Certified FDEs and partner-backed delivery

75 Databricks-certified specialists
3 MVPs, 4 Champions, 15 RSAs
15 AI and full-stack FDEs in-house

Reusable assets and production experience

70% AI-to-production rate
Reusable blueprints, components, and setups
Engineered workarounds for AI hallucinations

you could have a demo solution one week from now

Hire forward deployed engineers

The more you delay the solution, the more expensive it becomes. Put an FDE on it, and get a predictable outcome you will be proud to report to the board.

FAQ

5 steps: embed→scope→build→ship→enable. FDE embeds into your team, defines the goal, and finds out the optimal way to deliver on it. Then ships the solution and transfers knowledge and ownership back to your team.

You set up a goal—FDE figures out how to reach it. FDE remains in contact with the stakeholders, delivers demos early in the engagement, and steers the scope to make sure what was promised is delivered.

FDEs embed directly with your team, work with technical and business stakeholders day-to-day, and integrate systems they build into your operations. So that your teams can fully take over and scale up.

FDE=ownership and accountability. A dedicated team or outstaffed developer builds based on requirements and assigned scope. An FDE owns the solution, makes critical decisions, and takes full responsibility for the result.

Hiring an FDE is typically 20–30% more expensive than hiring a senior engineer. But the outcome justifies the investment on several tracks: problems stalled for lack of bandwidth get solved, AI spend actually pays off, and all that does not require expensive management hours. Plus, FDE builds from reusable blueprints and runs product, design, and development simultaneously, saving weeks, cutting tech debt, and setting a strong technical foundation for the in-house team.