Become the engineer who deploys the AI.

A Forward Deployed Engineer takes an AI system out of the lab and into a customer's actual operation. The role comes down to three skills: understand the business and who owns the problem, turn that understanding into an architecture that improves a number the business cares about, and build and deploy it in a continuous build, test, deploy, monitor cycle. Read What is a Forward Deployed Engineer? and the FDE glossary.

FDE Dispatch is for working engineers moving into Forward Deployed Engineer roles, mainly software engineers and data scientists, plus solutions and sales engineers who know the customer but have never owned the build. Participants work toward one of two outcomes: an FDE role at an AI-native company, or becoming the engineer who deploys AI inside their current company.

FDE Dispatch is built for working software engineers and data scientists, two to six years into their careers. No PhD or Palantir background is needed. Most applicants already build and ship software well. The program closes the other gap: discovery, and translating a business problem into architecture. Admission is decided on fit during a short call.

FDE Dispatch runs twelve weeks at six to eight hours per week, about ninety instructor-guided hours, scheduled around your job. The build track has four three-week phases: hard skills, soft skills and discovery, a full deployment for a real organization, then documentation and communication. An interview track runs alongside, light at the start and intensive by the end.

Participants hold discovery conversations with real business owners to find a problem that costs their operation time or money. They then design, build, and deploy a complete AI system for that organization, integrated with tools it already runs, such as its phone line, inbox, forms, CRM, or booking system. Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite and a human fallback behind it.

Participants leave with a live AI deployment in a real business, a portfolio of builds, discovery field notes, a scoped brief and one-page design doc, an evaluation suite with before-and-after results, and a written case study. They also get recorded interview simulations with written feedback, a rebuilt resume and pitch, and a certificate of completion issued once all deliverables are done.

An interview track runs alongside the build track for all twelve weeks, light at the start and intensive by the end. It covers customer problem decomposition, messy debugging, constrained system design, work trials with stakeholder presentations, deployment retrospectives, role-play, and full interview loops. Every simulation is recorded and returned with written feedback, and participants learn to position their real deployment work in each round. See the FDE interview loop field guide.

Coaching is one-to-one with practicing Forward Deployed Engineers, led by Kris Diallo, who founded FDE Dispatch. Coaches work a personalized twelve-week plan with each participant in regular live sessions, review everything they ship, and grade every build against a rubric.

FDE Dispatch is delivered one-to-one. There is no course library. Each participant follows a plan built around their background and target role. Seats are matched to coach availability and filled by fit.

Yes. Many participants are sponsored by their employer through a learning-and-development budget. The program provides what approvers ask for: a syllabus with outcomes and artifacts, an itemized invoice and receipts from DialTech Ventures LLC in the participant's or company's name, the stated time commitment of about ninety hours, a certificate of completion, and a one-page manager summary.

Start dates are chosen after the fit call. To apply, fill out the five-minute form at fdedispatch.com and you will hear back within a day. If it looks like a fit, you book a thirty-minute fit call, then receive a personalized twelve-week plan built around your background and target. Seats are filled by fit.

Yes. The 90-Day FDE Path is free and public at krisdiallo.com/path, with no sign-up gate. It walks a working engineer from building fluently with AI, to finding and scoping a real problem, to shipping a measured deployment and repositioning their resume. Plenty of people run it solo. FDE Dispatch adds a coach who reviews your work every week, a real business to deploy into, and recorded interview practice.

Bootcamps and guides teach through lectures and simulated projects. FDE Dispatch is built around a live deployment for a real organization, coached by people who do the work. Coaching targets where engineers predictably stall: avoiding the uncomfortable search for a real problem, over-engineering the middle month, and underselling the result with a resume that still reads like a pure engineer.