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Forward Deployed Engineers and the Businesses That Cannot Hire Them AI stalls inside companies for two human reasons: people cannot reimagine their workflows, and leaders will not manage the change. The evidence supports Claire Vo's diagnosis, published 12 August 2026, and the industry's chosen fix - sending engineers to work inside the customer's business - only reaches firms that can pay for a pod of them. Below that line the same two problems remain, and the answer has to arrive already built, with a person whose job is the change.

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