The Practical Deployment Series

The $160K AI job
almost nobody has.

There's a role in AI where demand grew over 1,000% in a single year — and almost nobody qualifies. It's called the forward-deployed engineer. Get the free Starter Kit and see exactly how to become one.

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What's inside

Two things you can use today

01 · The chapter

Why AI projects really die

Chapter 1 of the field guide — the clearest explanation of the "last mile," the gap between a demo everyone loves and a system a business actually runs on. It's where almost every AI project quietly dies, and it's never the model's fault.

02 · The prompts

The Deployment Prompt Pack

The exact prompts a forward-deployed engineer uses at each stage — Discover, Scope, Build, Validate, Go-Live, Operate — plus the one for turning a deployment into a paid pilot. Swap in your specifics and go.

03 · The path

A clear next step

The Starter Kit ends where the full field guide begins — the complete six-stage method that takes any AI idea and walks it all the way to "deployed."

Who it's for

One skill. Three doors.

01

Land the $160K job

Become the person companies are desperate for — the one who gets AI out of the demo and into production.

02

Ship your own AI app

You don't need a CS degree. You need the moves. Build the thing you've been putting off.

03

Automate your life & work

Hand the boring 80% to AI and keep the human 20% — the right way, with a system that actually holds up.

The Forward-Deployed AI Engineer — book cover
The full field guide

Take AI from prototype to production.

The complete operator's field guide — the six-stage method, industry playbooks, the operator's stack, a 447-term glossary, and a full chapter on getting paid.

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“Written by an operator who, as a non-technical founder, used AI tooling to build a working system independently estimated at over $1M in replacement cost.”

Michael Edison · Edison AI