You can code. You still can't get hired. The problem isn't your skills — it's the line you're standing in.
Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 12 weeks — ship a real AI system employers can inspect, in 6 hours a week, without quitting your job.
FDE job postings grew 800% last year, and 95% of enterprise AI pilots still fail at deployment. Companies don't need more certificates — they need people who can ship. The First Deployment gives you a deployed capstone, a verified proof-of-skill page, and unlimited AI-powered interview reps. 15 founding seats at $3,500 (cohort 2: $5,000). $500 fully-refundable deposit holds yours.
Refundable, no questions asked, any time before Day 1. Test-mode checkout during pre-launch.
first AI app deployed
working agent + eval harness
capstone demo to a live panel
verified proof page published
Tue + Thu 7:00–8:30pm ET — 24 live workshops · Sat 10–11am ET — 12 group coaching sessions · ~20-min async daily missions = 6 focused hours a week, keep your job. Cohorts complete at 64–96% vs 3–15% for solo courses.
The First Deployment — what's in the founding seat
Core 12-week program plus founding-member bonuses (cohort 1 only).
Core program (12 weeks)
- 24 live FDE workshops (Tue/Thu 7:00–8:30pm ET) — build → demo → critique format $4,500
- 12 Saturday group coaching sessions (10–11am ET, hot-seat) $1,200
- The Daily Deployment Loop: 20-min gamified missions, streaks, XP, skill tree $1,500
- AI agent suite: Socratic Tutor, Mock Interview Agent (FDE decomposition mode), Resume & Job Coach with ATS audit $2,000
- Capstone: a deployed AI system with eval harness, architecture doc, ROI memo, and recorded client-style demo $2,500
- Verified employer proof-of-skill page — competency grid + inspectable code, human-verified $1,000
Founding-member bonuses — cohort 1 only
- FDE Interview Vault: decomposition question bank + unlimited mock-agent sessions $750
- Eval-Harness Template Library $500
- AI Tools Field Guide (Cursor, Claude Code, LangGraph, vector DBs, MCP) $200
- Comp & Level Map + salary negotiation playbook (real 2026 bands by employer tier) $350
- "First $10K Consulting Client" playbook — SOW/contract templates, pricing calculator, outreach scripts $500
- Career Sprint (4-week post-graduation job-search overlay) — free for founding members $499
- Lifetime platform access + alumni community $1,000
- Founding-member badge on your proof page + direct founder access all 12 weeks —
Total anchor value: $16,499
Cohort-2 price: $5,000
Founding seat: $3,500
And it will never be this price again — 15 seats, gate-enforced; the price rises to $5,000 for cohort 2.
Deposit terms — exact, in writing
- $500 deposit reserves 1 of 15 founding seats. Applied in full to the $3,500 tuition.
- Refundable, no questions asked, any time before Day 1. One email = full refund within 5 business days.
- Auto-refund in full if the founding cohort doesn't reach 15 deposits by the go/no-go date, or if the start date slips past November 30, 2026.
- Balance ($3,000) due by Day 1. Self-pay: Stripe. Sponsored: Net-30 invoice on enrollment confirmation — a received PO holds the seat while the invoice is outstanding.
- Sponsors: one invoice can cover multiple seats; seat-transfer right — if your sponsored learner withdraws before Week 3, transfer the seat to cohort 2 free.
The guarantee stack
The deposit terms above. Zero risk to say yes today.
Attend the first four workshops and run the daily loop. Not what we promised? Walk away by end of Week 2 for a 100% refund including deposit.
Complete the reps (≥80% of missions + shipped, verified capstone) and if within 180 days of graduation you don't have a live employer-verified proof page and at least 3 interviews for FDE-track roles, we keep working with you free: a seat in cohort 2 plus the Career Sprint again, until you do.
This is not a job guarantee — nobody honest can promise you a job. It's a we-don't-stop guarantee.
The questions you should be asking
"Isn't this just another bootcamp?"
Bootcamps trained web devs into a shrinking market and handed them a certificate. We train the role whose postings grew 800% in a year — and you leave with a deployed system and an employer-verifiable evidence page, not a PDF.
"AI is wiping out junior dev jobs — why would I train now?"
Exactly. AI closed the code-monkey path and opened the deployment path: 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail at deployment (MIT), which is why OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all started hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in bulk this year. We train you for the job AI creates, not the one it killed.
"Why pay $3,500 to a program with no graduates yet?"
That's exactly why it's $3,500 instead of the $5,000 cohort-2 price — and why your $500 deposit is refundable until Day 1, your full tuition is refundable through Week 2, and if you do the work and don't have a verified proof page plus real interviews within 180 days, we keep working with you free. Founding members trade our missing track record for the lowest price this will ever be.
Sponsoring a seat?
- · Flat transparent pricing
- · Net-30 invoice / PO
- · Multi-seat billing
- · Seat-transfer protection
- · Per-learner outcome report aligned to workforce metrics
Sponsoring a seat? Reply to the info-session invite or email for an invoice — leave your email below and check "I'm sponsoring a seat."
Not ready to reserve? Start with the free report.
The job you're grinding for shrank 73%. The one nobody's lining up for grew 800%. Free report: How to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer — plus the invite to the founding-cohort info session.
15 seats. October 2026. $3,500 — never again.
$500 refundable deposit holds your seat. Refundable until Day 1, auto-refunded if the cohort doesn't run.