A guided video lesson
The Next Bottleneck: Scaling Forward-Deployed Engineering with AI
A source-grounded lesson on why customer-specific business understanding is the next bottleneck for AI deployment, and how forward-deployed engineering, specialized agents, and enterprise platforms can scale that work.
Chapter pages
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- 01The next bottleneck is depth into the customer0:13 - 1:10
- 02Why execution is no longer enough1:10 - 3:30
- 03Map the real workflow before changing it3:30 - 4:53
- 04Re-engineer the workflow around AI4:53 - 7:06
- 05Put agents on top of systems of record7:06 - 8:30
- 06Use an FDE agent to scale scarce hybrid expertise8:30 - 10:25
- 07Department-wide redesign produces larger value10:25 - 11:53
- 08A three-stage FDE agent11:53 - 15:24
- 09Represent company functioning and improve output quality15:24 - 17:20
- 10Train reliable context retrieval, then automate routine updates17:20 - 18:37
- 11Pair inside-out audits with platform implementation18:37 - 20:20