Announcing Deloitte Forward Deployed Engineering: Now powering AI transformation at the speed of business
The new age of AI has completely upended traditional technology ecosystems and their modes of adoption. Organizations are exponentially increasing their AI investments while simultaneously struggling to demonstrate a significant return on that investment.
And that's where Deloitte comes in. We’re leading the charge by offering Deloitte Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) to further help our clients meet the demands of today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape and achieve real business outcomes. With its multidisciplinary approach, Deloitte strengthens its commitment to driving groundbreaking innovation and delivering meaningful impact.
Speed to impact—grounded in business context, powered by platforms
The FDE model is rapidly gaining momentum as powerful AI-enabled platforms emerge, and organizations increasingly look to fast-track integration and adoption of AI. Focused heavily on outcomes, the Deloitte FDE model helps to combat the increasing complexity of accelerating AI transformation.
Key characteristics of an effective FDE model should include:
- Business-issue led: Effective forward deployed engineering starts by identifying a high-impact business problem, with success defined through clear, measurable criteria. This focus ensures that teams work with purpose, alignment and confidence in delivering real enterprise value.
- Client-embedded teams: Deloitte FDE specialists are embedded with client teams. This close collaboration builds trust, ensures rapid alignment, and enables real-time problem-solving. Solutions are shaped through ongoing feedback loops that reflect the client’s unique context and needs.
- Small, cross-disciplinary teams: These pods of specialist professionals combine deep technical and functional knowledge in a self-contained unit. Lean and nimble, these teams help our clients accelerate decision-making, foster innovation, and adapt quickly to evolving business needs.
- Industry-specific solutions: Deloitte FDE teams work at the heart of the business, bringing their sector-specific experience to deliver tailored solutions that help our clients drive growth, efficiency and impact by addressing unique sector challenges.
- Platform powered: Solutions are built and delivered using leading software platforms that seamlessly integrate with the client’s ecosystem. Leveraging these platforms accelerates implementation while ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
At Deloitte, our FDE teams leverage vast industry experience, deep technical knowledge, and a robust network of technology alliances to generate maximum impact with speed, while unlocking groundbreaking innovation that helps clients move their business forward.
With scaled Forward Deployed Engineering, Deloitte is laser-focused on positioning enterprises at the forefront of the future—embedding with our clients to co-create, build, and scale solutions on AI-powered platforms. We’re helping clients accelerate their speed to value—transforming bold ideas into real business impact and building enduring advantage.
— Faruk Muratovic, US AI & Engineering Strategy & Services leader at Deloitte.
Deloitte FDE allows us to deliver outcomes faster than ever before. Our approach bridges business strategy and technology, unlocking innovation and accelerating value creation at every stage. By leveraging our deep industry knowledge and technical prowess, we help organizations move beyond AI pilots toward adoption, integration and measurable results.
— Baris Sarer, Deloitte's Global AI leader for the Technology, Media & Telecom industry.
As we look toward the next decade and beyond, AI will have an immense transformative impact on the future of business. Deloitte's Forward Deployed Engineering approach bridges the gap between business expectations and technical capabilities, empowering our clients to reimagine enterprise processes with AI and drive value throughout the organization.
Faruk Muratovic
