FDE Insights
OpenAI Presence & the Rise of the FDE: Who Should Deploy Your Enterprise AI Agents?
OpenAI now sends its own Forward Deployed Engineers on-site to stand up enterprise agents through a product called Presence. That quietly turns "build vs. buy" into a three-way decision—AI lab, in-house team, or independent partner—and the right answer depends on control, lock-in, and whether you've built the evaluation and governance to run agents in production at all.
