FDE alignment · The academy integration model

Every Digital Edify program is a pillar of the Forward Deployed AI Engineer.

Seven tracks each own a slice of the enterprise AI value chain. Each is individually employable and individually incomplete — enterprises don't fail at AI because a discipline is missing, they fail at the seams between them. The FDE is the single named human accountable for the whole outcome.

This program
Modern Business Analyst
Discovers and specifies — the functional on-ramp that turns an ambiguous request into a defensible, governed solution contract.
The delivery spine · shared across every program
Discover Qualify Design Prototype Build Deploy Adopt Optimize
P1 Full depth · here
Business Discovery & Problem Structuring
Modern Business Analyst
P2 Other track
Software Engineering
Full Stack & AI App Engineering
P3 Other track
Applied AI Engineering
Applied AI Engineering
P4 Other track
Enterprise Architecture & Integration
Full Stack + DevOps & AI Ops
P5 Other track
AI Operations & Reliability
DevOps & AI Operations
P6 Working depth
Security, Governance & Responsible AI
DevOps + Quality Engineering
P7 Working depth
Delivery & Product Thinking
AI Product Owner
P8 Full depth · here
Communication & Consulting
Business Analyst + AI Product Owner
P9 Working depth
Adoption & Value Realization
Business Analyst + AI Product Owner
You receive
An ambiguous customer request, stated as a solution rather than a problem
Current-state systems, data and workflow reality
Regulatory and contractual constraints from the customer
You own
Stakeholder intelligence and defensible problem framing
AI opportunity qualification and the autonomy recommendation
The To-Be human–AI workflow and 10-section Agent Specification
UAT, evaluation design and adoption evidence
You hand the next discipline
→Discovery brief, problem statement and KPI baseline
→Agent Specification as the engineering contract
→Acceptance criteria and UAT evidence to Quality Engineering