# Cohere — Why forward-deployed engineers should build capability, not dependency

- Company: Cohere (cohere.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-27T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Command
- Source: https://cohere.com/blog/forward-deployed-engineers-capability-building
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4507-why-forward-deployed-engineers-should-build-capability-not-dependency

Cohere discusses how forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) can build customer capability to avoid vendor lock-in, emphasizing co-building and knowledge transfer rather than creating operational dependency.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://cohere.com/blog/forward-deployed-engineers-capability-building:

> Our FDEs work alongside our customers’ engineering teams through architecture, integration, deployment, testing, and troubleshooting. This co-building approach helps transfer the tacit implementation knowledge that customer teams need to understand and operate the system themselves.

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