By Water Off a Goose
Most startups and family-owned businesses don't need a glossy 100-page strategy deck. What they need is someone to roll up their sleeves and help get a real handle on inventory and financial management.
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Schedule Your Free ConsultationMost startups and family-owned businesses don't need a glossy 100-page strategy deck on accounting, finance, or operations. What they need is someone to roll up their sleeves, sit next to the founder, and help get a real handle on inventory and financial management.
In Silicon Valley, they've branded this approach the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). The idea is simple: instead of advising from afar, you work inside the business like a team member. Surprisingly, very few service providers actually do this well. Most sell cookie-cutter solutions that don't fit the unique quirks of a small company.
The FDE model is different because it's about real partnership. If you're buried in paperwork, invoices, payables, receivables, customs headaches, or shipping delays, we build tools that actually make life easier. And while "AI" gets thrown around as a buzzword, we focus on creating agentic workflows that improve your processes and then put them into action.
The biggest thing we understand is that founders can't spend hours tinkering with systems that don't drive growth or revenue. That's why we work independently and take ownership so that the management team can stay focused on running the business.