Introducing the outsourced Forward Deployed Engineer

PenDraco is sharpening a decade of senior engineering practice into a single offer: the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model, democratized for the businesses that need it and could never reach it before.

The FDE is the model Palantir invented and OpenAI, Anthropic, and Snowflake now run. Instead of selling software and walking away, the company embeds a senior engineer inside the customer's environment to discover the real problem, build the solution, ship it into production, and own it through adoption. Until now that model was locked behind six- and seven-figure platform spend. We bring the same discipline to ops-heavy small and mid-sized businesses.

What this means

• Your outsourced FDE. A senior, US-based engineer embedded in your team, without a full-time hire. Not a contractor you have to manage, and not advice you then have to implement yourself.
• The trial is now the Forward Deploy Sprint. Our 60-day ERPNext trial has evolved into a fixed-fee, 30 to 60 day embedded engagement on one high-value workflow. You keep everything we build, whether or not you continue.
• A platform that compounds. The work runs on an open-source ERPNext / Frappe platform we operate for you, with Jakada.ai, our AI agent for ERPNext, layered on top so your team runs the system in plain language.
• Senior engineers, multiplied by AI, on inference we own. Owned, offline, open-weight inference means no per-token bill on your AI and your data never has to leave your environment. More on the AI advantage.

The capabilities behind a decade of enterprise delivery, native mobile, web platforms, and ERPNext / Frappe integration, have not gone anywhere. They are now what the embedded FDE reaches for once the expensive problem is found, rather than a menu to shop from.

Start with a fixed-fee Forward Deploy Sprint, keep whatever we build, and decide from there.