Forward-deployed engineering

Agentic AI, grounded in the content you run on.

We embed senior engineers inside your operations to turn document-heavy, compliance-bound workflows into governed, autonomous processes, built on the platforms you already trust.

Deep expertise across OpenText · Microsoft 365 · SAP · Salesforce

Platform depth OpenText Microsoft 365 SAP Salesforce
The gap most AI projects fall into

Most enterprise AI stalls at the demo. The model is rarely the problem.

It's the content. Agents are only as good as the information and governance behind them.

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Ungoverned content

Agents built on scattered, unclassified, unverified documents inherit every gap and contradiction in your data. Trust never materializes.

02

Brittle integrations

Pilots that can't reach the systems of record (ECM, ERP, CRM) never leave the lab. Real work lives inside those platforms.

03

No audit trail

In regulated processes, an answer without provenance is a liability. Autonomy without governance simply cannot be deployed.

FDE Technology closes the gap from the inside out, pairing decades of content-platform engineering with agentic AI so your automation is accurate, integrated, and defensible from day one.

The forward-deployed model

We don't hand you a slide deck. We embed and build.

The hardest part of enterprise AI isn't the code. It's the edge cases, the exceptions, the rules nobody wrote down. So our engineers work inside your environment, on your real processes.

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Embed

Senior forward-deployed engineers join your team, mapping the workflow, the content, the compliance boundaries, and where time and risk actually accumulate.

2

Engineer

We build agents against your real systems of record, grounded in governed content, with the integrations and guardrails to run unattended where it's safe to.

3

Hand off & scale

We harden, document, and transfer ownership, then horizontalize each win into a repeatable pattern your teams can extend across the business.

Consulting services

From legacy content to autonomous workflows.

Four connected practices, engaged individually or as one path from modernization to measurable outcomes.

Content platform modernization

Migrate, consolidate, and re-architect enterprise content so it's clean, classified, and AI-ready. It's the foundation every reliable agent depends on.

MigrationClassificationMetadata & taxonomy

Agentic workflow automation

Design and deploy AI agents that read, understand, and act on documents and tasks end-to-end, replacing manual handling with governed autonomy.

Document understandingOrchestrationHuman-in-the-loop

Compliance & data governance

Records management, retention, security, and auditability engineered in from the start, so autonomy is something your risk and legal teams can sign off on.

Records managementRetentionAudit & lineage

Application & integration

Connect content and agents to the systems where work happens (SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft 365) so intelligence shows up in-context, not in a separate tool.

SAPSalesforceMicrosoft 365
◆ Our product: docAIgent

An agentic interface for content, documents & tasks.

The patterns we deploy in the field, productized. docAIgent automates document processing and understanding, and manages the work that follows. It runs across any industry, on top of the repository you already run.

  • Understands documents: extracts, classifies, and reasons over content with full provenance.
  • Manages the work: turns understanding into tasks, routing, and actions, with humans in the loop where it matters.
  • Repository-agnostic: native backends for OpenText Content Management and OpenText Core Content, with more on the way.
  • Built for every industry: a single agentic layer adaptable to your processes, not a vertical point solution.

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Platform specialists

Decades inside the platforms that run the enterprise.

OpenTextContent Mgmt · Core Content
Microsoft 365SharePoint · Copilot
SAPContent for ERP
SalesforceContent for CRM
& moreOpen · standards-based
Who we are

Digital transformation specialists for the agentic era.

FDE Technology is a team of engineers and content specialists who have spent careers modernizing the platforms enterprises depend on. We've watched organizations invest in content systems and never fully realize the value locked inside them.

Agentic AI changes that, but only when it's built on trusted, governed content and wired into the systems where work actually happens. That intersection is what we do, and we do it forward-deployed: inside your operations, on your real processes, accountable for outcomes rather than recommendations.

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Why now

We didn't invent this model. The market is moving to it.

Content-grounded, forward-deployed AI isn't a bet on the future. It's where the enterprise is already heading. We've been building for it for two decades.

Industry prediction

AI is only as smart as your content.

OpenTextFive predictions for 2026
Market data

729%

Year-over-year growth in forward-deployed engineering roles. The bottleneck in enterprise AI has shifted from models to deployment.

Industry hiring dataJob postings, Apr 2025 → Apr 2026
Industry shift

The hard part of enterprise AI is metabolizing the customer's world, not the code.

The forward-deployed shiftEY formalized an FDE practice, April 2026

Industry signals, not customer endorsements. Your real proof points drop in here as we deploy together.

Find the highest-value process to automate first.

Book a working session. We'll map one real workflow, identify where agentic AI pays off fastest, and show you what a governed, content-grounded deployment looks like for your business.

Contact

Talk to an engineer, not a sales rep.

Tell us about your environment and the process you'd like to transform. We'll come back with concrete next steps.

Emailhello@fdetechnology.com
What happens nextA 30-minute discovery call, then a tailored workflow assessment.
No commitmentThe first session is a working consultation, not a pitch.

We typically respond within one business day. Your details stay with our team.