2Terms and definitions
The terms used in this standard. Each term has a fixed anchor, so you can cite it directly.
- FDE
- Short for forward deployed engineering: AI transformation built inside a company, project by project. Engineers move into the organisation, work next to its teams and build the system in place, against the real workflow rather than the one written in the process manual. Nothing of value leaves when the engagement ends, because the method is built into the system rather than delivered as a report.
See also : Six delivery standards
- Six delivery standards
- The six standards every FDE engagement is held to: Invisible, Emergent, Fault-tolerant, Bounded, Traceable and Measurable. The first two make the system useful, the middle two make it safe to run, and the last two make it possible to prove what it did.
See also : FDE , Invisible , Emergent , Fault-tolerant , Bounded , Traceable , Measurable
- 3.1 Invisible
- Nobody learns a new system. It adapts to the habits and data flows people already have, inside the tools they already open, instead of becoming one more thing to log into.
See also : Six delivery standards , Emergent
- 3.2 Emergent
- Agents compose primitive capabilities freely to handle the long tail, rather than executing a handful of hard-coded flows that break on the first exception.
See also : Six delivery standards , Invisible
- 3.3 Fault-tolerant
- Small errors heal internally, and large ones degrade gracefully to a human. The system never bluffs its way through a situation it cannot handle.
See also : Six delivery standards , Bounded
- 3.4 Bounded
- Even running perfectly, an agent does only what it has been authorised to do, acting under a real identity. Data does not cross the walls it is not meant to cross.
See also : Six delivery standards , Fault-tolerant
- 3.5 Traceable
- Every decision carries its chain of reasoning, its sources and a rollback path. When something goes wrong, it can be located and accounted for.
See also : Six delivery standards , Measurable
- 3.6 Measurable
- We measure the baseline before we change anything, so that at the end we can show what moved, by how much, and whether it was worth the money.
See also : Six delivery standards , Traceable
- People follow the bottleneck
- Redeployment comes first. We do not take on designs whose goal is to cut jobs, and we would not do them well.