A role that barely existed two years ago

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: the person who gets AI out of the demo and into something a business actually runs on.

1,000%+

one-year growth in demand for the role — against a near-empty talent pool.

Start with the free kit

Chapter 1 + the Deployment Prompt Pack — see exactly how the role works.

One quick step ✦

Check your inbox for a confirmation email from Michael Edison and click the button inside — that unlocks your Starter Kit. Not there in a minute? Check promotions or spam.

What's inside the kit

Two things you can use today.

The chapter

Why AI projects really die

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

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.

The path

A clear next step

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

Who it's for

One skill. Three doors.

Land the $160K job

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

Ship your own AI app

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

Automate your work

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

When you're ready to go deeper

Two ways in — the book, or the full method.

Start with the field guide for the whole picture, or go straight to the masterclass to take one real workflow all the way to production.

The masterclass

From idea to production.

The 40-lesson video course that walks one real customer workflow through all six stages — Discover, Scope, Build, Validate, Go-Live, Operate — with every framework as a usable artifact.

$67 · one payment · 30-day guarantee

+ $2add the 447-term Field Manual at checkout

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The field guide

The Forward-Deployed AI Engineer — book cover

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.

Kindle · Paperback · Apple · Kobo

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Educational and operational planning resource. Not legal, compliance, security, or financial advice.

From the field

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