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Forward-deployed engineering (FDE)

The engineer the AI giants embed in enterprises. Now at your size.

A forward-deployed engineer (FDE) sits inside your business, wires AI agents into the tools you already use, and stays until they run. At Riggd, your FDE is the founder — not a junior on rotation. Live in weeks, then it's yours to keep.

The problem

Sound familiar?

You're the only one who uses AI well.

Your prompts and tricks live in your head. The rest of the team still does it the slow way.

Your AI can't see your business.

It writes a good email but can't touch your CRM, your Drive, your inbox, or your files. A clever stranger, not a teammate.

The last vendor built it and vanished.

Or won't leave. You're either stranded with something you can't run, or stuck on a monthly retainer.

You've been “about to set up AI” for six months.

The intent is there. Nothing has shipped.

If you nodded at any of these, you don't need another AI tool. You need an engineer in the room who makes it run.

The moment

Companies that run on agents have a name now.

Microsoft calls them Frontier Firms — companies rebuilt around human-agent teams, where agents do the work and people direct it. At Frontier Firms, 71% of workers say their company is thriving. Everywhere else: 37%.

Microsoft Work Trend Index, 2025

The giants just put money on the path. Microsoft committed $2.5 billion and 6,000 people to deploy agents inside enterprises. OpenAI is building a deployment company of its own — around $10 billion. The product isn't software. It's FDEs — engineers embedded until agents run.

They won't send one to a 20-person company. We will.

What you get

What riggd actually means.

Right now your AI is a chat tab. Your FDE turns it into part of how your company runs.

It knows your tools

We connect your AI to the apps you already use — Gmail, Slack, your CRM, Drive, your codebase — so it works with your real data.

It knows your way of working

Your style guides, runbooks, and the way you prompt it when it works well — captured so the whole team gets your best output.

It runs on its own

Recurring work — reports, reviews, triage, follow-ups — runs on a schedule without anyone opening a chat window.

It stays honest

Automatic checks tell you it's still working when the AI models change underneath you.

One example · a rig in practice The kind of workflow week one ships
01 · WhatsApp

A customer enquiry lands. It's 9pm on a Saturday.

02 · Your AI

Drafts the quote from your real price list and past jobs.

03 · Your CRM

Logs the lead, attaches the quote, sets the follow-up.

04 · Slack

Your team gets a ping to approve. One tap — sent.

How it's different

Consultants write slides. We ship production code.

The usual consultancy Riggd
A deck about what AI could do Agents in production, doing it
Months of discovery before anything ships Live in your tools in weeks
Engagements structured to never end Embedded until it ships. Structured so you don't need us after.
The know-how leaves when they do You own it — agents, workflows, data
“Book a call” to even hear a price Price and timeline published up front

“Yours” isn't a promise — it's a file you own. Every agent ships as a signed, portable brain built on uniqent ↗, our open standard for packaging agents — install it anywhere, no lock-in.

The engagement

Embedded for two weeks. Then it's yours.

One FDE. Flat fee. Fixed scope. Here's exactly what happens.

01

Discovery

Four questions to see if we're a fit. If yes, a proposal lands in 48 hours. If no, an honest no.

30 min · free
02

Scoping

We walk your stack, pick which tools to connect and which workflows to build, and gather the way your team works.

~1 week
03

Setup

Your FDE embeds. Week 1: tools connected, first agents live. Week 2: the rest, plus automatic checks and a 90-min team walkthrough.

2 weeks · fixed fee
04

Handoff

You own everything — your workspace, your workflows, your data. 30-day check-in included.

Day 14
What it costs

Priced up front. No retainer.

Singapore SMEs

Government grants can cover a meaningful share for eligible SMEs. We'll tell you exactly what you qualify for on the discovery call — and handle the paperwork with you.

Everywhere else

One flat fee, same scope, same timeline.

Pays for itself in ~30 days.

A junior dev in Singapore runs SGD 6–10K every month. A senior FDE from Riggd is a one-time fee — exact figure in your proposal, 48 hours after the Discovery call.

Common questions

The fine print, out loud.

What's an FDE?

A forward-deployed engineer: someone who works inside your business instead of from a vendor's office — learning how your team actually works, then building AI agents into the tools you already use. Palantir made the role famous; the AI labs now build whole units around it. At Riggd, your FDE is the founder.

What exactly do we get at the end?

Your AI — Claude, ChatGPT, whatever you already pay for — connected to the tools you run on: Gmail, Slack, WhatsApp, your CRM, your files. Plus your recurring workflows set up to run on schedule, documented, with automatic checks. You own all of it.

Do we need anyone technical?

No — that's what your FDE is for. We build it, document it, and walk your team through it in a 90-minute handoff. If your team can use a chat app, they can run what we leave behind.

What does it cost?

A fixed fee, quoted up front — your proposal lands 48 hours after the discovery call. No retainer, no hourly billing, no surprise invoices. Eligible Singapore SMEs may also qualify for government grants — we'll walk you through what applies.

What happens after the two weeks?

It's yours — the workspace, the workflows, the data. A 30-day check-in is included. After that your FDE steps out, unless you call us back.

What if it breaks, or the AI models change?

Every rig ships with automatic checks that run on a schedule and tell you it's still working — so you find out from a green tick, not from a customer.

Can you work with the AI subscriptions we already have?

Yes — that's the point. We rig what you already pay for instead of selling you another platform.

Tell us what to rig.

A 30-minute call. Four questions. If it's a fit, you get a fixed-fee proposal in 48 hours. If it isn't, an honest no.