📚 6-Week Program

Course Overview &
Complete Syllabus

Six focused weeks. Real-world projects. A certification that opens doors. Here's exactly what you'll learn, week by week.

Program at a Glance

6

Weeks of intensive, hands-on training

$2,500

Total program cost — no hidden fees

40+

Hours of guided instruction and practice

3

Real client-style projects in your portfolio

Live Instruction Hands-On Labs Real Client Projects Certification Exam Included Lifetime Access Career Support

The FDE Certification program is designed for working engineers, data professionals, and technical consultants who want to level up into high-impact, high-income Forward Deployment Engineering roles. The course is 100% online with live sessions, hands-on labs, and real client project work.

Weekly Syllabus

W1

Foundations of Forward Deployment

What an FDE is, the history from Palantir to the AI era, the FDE mindset, and the client engagement lifecycle. Set up your full FDE tech stack and study real case studies.

FDE Role & MindsetEngagement LifecycleCase StudiesTech Stack Setup
W2

Client Discovery & Problem Framing

Master stakeholder interviews, workflow mapping, and problem framing. Translate vague business pain into well-defined technical challenges with clear success metrics.

Stakeholder InterviewsWorkflow MappingProblem FramingSuccess Metrics
W3

Rapid Prototyping & Deployment

Build functional MVPs in days, not months. Choose the right architecture for the problem, deploy to AWS / GCP / Cloudflare, and cover security, monitoring, and observability basics.

MVP ArchitectureAPI DesignCloud DeploymentSecurity Basics
W4

Data Engineering & AI Integration

Connect messy real-world data sources, build pipelines that scale, and integrate AI/ML: deploy LLMs, build RAG systems, and create decision dashboards that drive business outcomes.

Data PipelinesLLM IntegrationRAG SystemsDecision Dashboards
W5

Business Acumen & Getting Clients

Speak the language of executives, frame technical work as business value, price your services (hourly, project, retainer), pitch and close engagements, and plan the path to $1M/year.

Executive CommunicationPricing & ScopingPitching & ClosingRevenue Models
W6

Capstone Project & Certification

Complete a real-world deployment from discovery to handoff, present to a panel of evaluators, pass the client engagement simulation and final exam, and join the graduate network.

Capstone BuildPanel PresentationCertification ExamNetwork Onboarding

What's Included

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Live Instruction

Weekly live sessions with experienced FDEs who have deployed at top companies — not recorded lectures from 2019.

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Hands-On Labs

Every week includes practical labs building real solutions with real (messy) data.

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3 Client Projects

Graduate with a portfolio of three client-style projects that prove you can deliver — your #1 sales asset.

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Certification Exam

Written exam plus a timed practical build challenge and a client engagement simulation.

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Lifetime Network

Permanent access to the graduate community, job and client referrals, and alumni-only events.

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Career Support

Portfolio reviews, pitch practice, and introductions to companies actively hiring certified FDEs.

Program Cost

$2,500

Total program cost — everything included

See How Graduates Get Clients

At $2,500, the program pays for itself in your first day of client work. Certified FDEs charge $200–$500/hour — a single 10-hour engagement covers the full cost of certification.

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Spaces are limited. Secure your spot today and start your journey to $1M/year.

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