RUNLUME / FDE

FDE Business Delivery

A Forward Deployed Engineer works with your team to clarify business needs, select and tailor systems, deliver private deployment and platform integration, and turn business methods into sustainable software products.

Product and service scope

Requirements discovery and system selection
Solution validation, customization, and delivery
Private deployment and platform integration
Business methodology productization
Launch acceptance and iteration planning

Industries: Cross-industry · Professional services

FDEMethod productizationSystem delivery

These are product capabilities. Your selected plan or service agreement determines delivery scope, available features, and resource allowances.

Explore capabilities and workflows

Before you purchase

Business goals and service scope
Deliverables, timeline, and acceptance criteria
Quotation, payment arrangements, and support

METHOD → SOFTWARE → BUSINESS

Featured use case: business methodology productization

Runlume connects domain experts, software engineers, and business users to turn methods, experience, and rules into working software. FDEs work within the business context to establish shared specifications and coordinate building, validation, and delivery. The platform supports integration, authorized collaboration, and ongoing operations so each delivery becomes a lasting software asset.

EXPERTISE. ENGINEERING. EVERYDAY WORK.

Bring business expertise, engineering, and everyday users together.

An FDE does more than relay requirements. Working close to real operations, they align expert methods, engineering decisions, and user feedback around a shared specification and delivery goal. Runlume provides the common foundation from building to operating the product.

Domain experts

Why does the business work this way?

Make industry knowledge, operating experience, and decision criteria explicit. Define workflows, rules, and exceptions, and validate the method.

Contribute: methods, rules, and acceptance criteria

Software engineers

How can the method run reliably?

Turn specifications into systems, APIs, and automated workflows. Own engineering quality, testing, deployment, and maintainability, with AI-assisted development.

Contribute: systems, APIs, tests, and releases

Business users

Does it work in everyday operations?

Bring real tasks, working conditions, and constraints. Participate in trials and acceptance, and test value through everyday feedback and business outcomes.

Contribute: real examples, feedback, and outcomes

FDE connects business understanding with engineering delivery

From discovery and prototyping to integration, launch, and review, the FDE coordinates the three perspectives and keeps problems, specifications, implementation, and feedback connected. FDEs can contribute code without replacing expert judgment or user acceptance.

Why Runlume fits FDE delivery

A shared specification for the method: Connect the team through goals, workflows, data, permissions, and acceptance criteria. Reduce gaps between business meaning and implementation, and evolve the method across releases.
Reuse foundations; focus on business needs: The platform provides shared identity, app lifecycle, entitlements, and common capabilities. FDEs and engineers can focus on domain rules and critical workflows rather than rebuild operating foundations.
Independent deployment, connected workflows: Systems can run independently or in private deployments, connecting capabilities and data through integration and explicit authorization. Agent executes cross-system tasks within its grants—not through unrestricted data sharing.
Keep operating beyond the handover: Connect acceptance, releases, provisioning, and service entitlements, and feed user feedback back into rules and specifications. Methods, systems, and capabilities permitted for reuse can become products for further suitable workflows.

Your operating methods. Your software assets.

01
Define the operating method
Domain experts provide methods and reasoning; users contribute real workflows and exceptions. The FDE aligns business goals and priorities, making tacit experience explicit.
Goals, processes, and rules
02
Create structured specifications
The FDE works with experts and engineers on a blueprint and specification covering data, permissions, inputs, outputs, and acceptance criteria—a shared basis for business decisions and engineering.
Blueprint / Spec
03
Build the business system
Software engineers use AI to build interfaces, workflows, and capability APIs. The FDE keeps implementation aligned with business meaning while reusing existing apps and platform capabilities.
System and change set
04
Validate and release
Validate business examples, permission boundaries, and acceptance criteria; review changes and retain version and release records.
Acceptance and version
05
Integrate and operate
Connect identity, provisioning, entitlements, and authorized collaboration for internal use or a productized service with a defined delivery scope.
App and service
06
Improve through results
Feed usage feedback, business outcomes, and exceptions back into rules and specifications to inform the next improvement.
Feedback and next version

Business owners confirm methods and acceptance criteria; AI assists with construction and execution. Important changes are reviewed, and system calls respect tenant, data, and authorization boundaries.

Ownership and usage rights for methods, code, data, and deliverables follow the engagement agreement. Business data stays within its authorization boundaries; reuse across customers does not mean copying their data or proprietary knowledge.

LOCAL DEPLOYMENT. CONTROLLED CONNECTIONS.

Deploy on your terms. Share data through explicit grants.

Business systems support on-premises and private deployment on company-managed servers or private clouds, according to the deployment plan. Keep independent business databases while connecting to Runlume identity, entitlements, and collaboration capabilities.

Your deployment environment

Business systems and databases run in the agreed enterprise environment. Methods, customer information, and business records remain in their respective systems, with storage locations, administrator access, and retention defined in the deployment plan.

Runlume platform

Provides shared identity, app integration, entitlements, and controlled collaboration without requiring merged business databases. Identity mappings, instance state, usage, and call records are processed as needed for these functions.

Agent and external capabilities

Agent works through granted capability APIs; external models and services follow the selected integration plan. Define the required fields, recipient, and purpose rather than treating integration as access to all data.

Connect capabilities, preserve data boundaries

For example, CRM and Orders exchange necessary customer references and order information through authorized APIs while retaining separate databases and permissions. Request and response data still travels through the call chain and belongs in the data-scope and network-access review.

Make data protection part of access and delivery.

Data ownership and control: Platform integration does not change agreed data ownership. Define data owners, storage, backup, export, and deletion processes; handle data and access according to the agreement during migration or offboarding.
Tenant isolation and least privilege: Validate access against accounts, app instances, and business roles. Explicit system bindings grant only the capabilities and data scope a task needs. Experts, engineers, FDEs, and users receive access appropriate to their responsibilities.
AI follows the same access boundaries: Task orchestration does not give Agent administrator access. Calls respect tenant, capability, and data grants, with important changes reviewed. Before using external AI, confirm outbound content, service terms, and data-processing scope.
Secure operations and traceability: Use operation and call records to trace processing without exposing secrets or sensitive payloads in ordinary logs. Deployment delivery defines and verifies network access, transport protection, credential management, recovery, and upgrade responsibilities.
Private delivery and License management: Issue, query, register deployments against, and revoke Licenses defining product versions, environments, deployment and business-instance limits, and validity periods. Business systems integrate the verification component to check signatures and license conditions locally using public keys. Deployment licensing does not replace subscription entitlements or data access permissions. License-status updates for offline deployments and delivery scope follow the agreed terms.

Does on-premises deployment mean no data ever leaves?

No. Business data can be stored locally, but shared identity, platform collaboration, notifications, or external AI may process necessary information. Document data flows and purposes and restrict sensitive outbound fields and recipients.

Can a local deployment run entirely offline?

Independent deployment does not make every capability available offline. Platform authentication, entitlement checks, and external capabilities need their respective connections. Confirm private-network access, network requirements, and offline features during selection and deployment.

Who is responsible for local system security?

Responsibilities are agreed between the enterprise, system provider, and delivery team: the enterprise manages infrastructure and authorized personnel, the provider maintains application controls, and the delivery team assists with configuration, validation, and handover. Runlume handles platform governance; local deployments still require ongoing security operations.

COMMON QUESTIONS

FDE and turning expertise into products.

How does FDE relate to productizing business methods?

FDE is a service approach in which specialists work closely with a business to deliver implementation. Productizing business methods is one use case: translating expert knowledge into executable workflows, rules, and applications, then iterating on usage feedback.

How do domain experts, engineers, and users contribute?

Experts define methods and decision criteria; engineers build applications and connections; users apply them and provide feedback. Business owners confirm scope and acceptance criteria. Runlume provides shared foundations for operation, authorized connections, and product management.

How are ownership and usage rights agreed?

The agreement defines ownership and usage rights for methods, code, data, and deliverables. Business data stays within its authorization boundaries. Reusing methods or software across projects does not permit copying client data, proprietary knowledge, or confidential materials.

How are delivery and ongoing maintenance defined?

Agree the scope, milestones, deployment environment, acceptance criteria, and material-change process upfront. Specify support, upgrades, and maintenance in the agreement. Services can cover validation, custom development, and private deployment, as defined in the contract.