The trusted connector for the global Forward Deployed Engineer ecosystem.
Global FDE connects enterprises, Forward Deployed Engineers, AI product and engineering teams, delivery partners, technology providers, and domain experts. We help knowledge, capabilities, talent, and commercial opportunities move through trusted relationships.
A world where every meaningful AI deployment problem can find trusted people and capabilities—and every FDE who creates real value can be seen, connected, and given greater opportunity.
Connect the global FDE ecosystem, turn field experience into shared knowledge, verify real needs and capabilities, and enable trusted collaboration that moves frontier AI into the real world.
- Real problems first — begin with users, workflows, constraints, and measurable outcomes.
- Evidence over volume — prefer verifiable work, concrete systems, and honest results.
- Field knowledge should compound — turn delivery experience into reusable methods and resources.
- Trust before transaction — disclose interests and build credible relationships before commercial cooperation.
- Protect the field — never expose customer data, code, contracts, or confidential context without authorization.
- Global connection, local understanding — respect language, regulation, industry, and regional reality.
- Candid and generous — share uncertainty, failures, and lessons that help others make better decisions.
- Awesome FDE Resources — curated FDE and production AI resources.
- FDE Member Network — practitioners and teams with verifiable delivery capabilities.
David Li (李样兵) — Global FDE initiator and founder of SandBase AI. Focused on production AI, agent infrastructure, and trusted ecosystem connections.
Bring a real deployment problem. Leave with trusted connections and reusable field knowledge.