Build the Forward Deployed Discipline
Vidhi Chugh
AI Executive & Educator | Microsoft MVP
Walk into any ambiguous problem & know exactly what should/shouldn't be built.
With Cursor, Claude Code, and copilots, teams can ship faster than ever, but they're also building the wrong thing faster than ever.
Wasted engineering cycles before reality hits.
Sales promises AI magic without understanding constraints.
Customers don’t know what problem they actually have.
Engineers build exactly what was asked, & it still fails.
This is the gap Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) solves.
The ability to walk into ambiguity, understand the real problem, say no to bad AI ideas & ship value quickly
Because building AI is no longer the hard part, but making it work is.
This workshop teaches you to:
Detect when customers ask for the wrong thing
Say “No AI needed here” without killing the deal
Scope ambiguous requirements
Translate tech tradeoffs into business decisions
Turn customer pain into product direction
Ship ugly but useful
Know when to walk away
Every week without this discipline is another week your team builds the wrong thing, confidently.
Workshop agenda
- 10:00AM EDT
Why FDE Skills Are Becoming a Career Moat?
Learn why forward deployed thinking is one of the most valuable skills in Agentic AI era.
- 10:30AM EDT
The FDE Scoping Stack
Learn the mental model to move from vague ideas to scoped solutions, before writing a single line of code.
- 11:00AM EDT
The 3 Gap Dimensions
Identify hidden gaps: Problem, Workflow, Success
- 11:30AM EDT
Pain Signal Test
Assess when customers are asking for the wrong thing and how to redirect them without killing momentum.
- 12:00PM EDT
Constraint Map
Extract real-world constraints before committing engineering time
- 12:30PM EDT
The Discovery Simulation
Live Customer Scenario
- 1:00PM EDT
The FDE Playbook: What Great FDEs Do Differently
Practical patterns from real-world deployments
Learn directly from Vidhi
Vidhi Chugh
AI Executive & Board Member | Microsoft MVP | AI Patentholder | 180k students
Who this workshop is for
You’re a strong engineer shipping into a void, tired of building systems nobody uses
You’re a PM whose tidy requirements don’t match messy customer reality
You’re an AI leader trying to close the gap between “build” and “works”
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Vidhi Chugh in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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$497
USD