A closer look at AI in the enterprise.
Research, company intelligence and perspectives on how AI is deployed in the real world.
OKFDE is an independent research and engineering platform dedicated to Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) and enterprise AI delivery.
Enterprise AI rarely stalls because foundation models lack intelligence. It breaks against brittle legacy systems, undocumented edge cases, and fractured accountability.
We skip the high-altitude hype to document and solve the engineering last mile in production.
What We Research
Forward Deployed Engineering, enterprise AI integration, and the companies driving this shift. We bridge raw engineering practice with the operational and organizational realities behind it.
Where frontier AI meets enterprise reality.
Core Pillars
Field Notes
Ground-level post-mortems, architectural pitfalls, and production-tested patterns.Research & Benchmarks
Enterprise deployment baselines, delivery constraints, and verifiable evidence.Company Intelligence
Objective field profiles tracking how leading vendors actually deploy—cutting through vendor PR to examine real delivery modes.Workshops
Intensive FDE playbooks and architectural training for engineering leaders and enterprise architects.
Our Principles
Evidence over PR.
We strictly separate observed facts, analytical synthesis, and working hypotheses.
Contact Us：leo@okfde.net