Forward Deployed Engineering
A new essential role in any business.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) job listings on Indeed rose 729% in the year to April 2026. A FDE embeds in teams, understands how they work, and helps them apply AI more effectively.
The median FDE base salary in the UK is about EUR 127k, and frontier labs charge far more: their FDE engagements reportedly start at $10 million.
Our mission at janyl is to offer top-tier FDE to Europe's 1.8 million SMEs, nearly one in five of which already use AI. If you're thinking about onboarding a FDE, consider janyl. We build production grade agents that are used daily across numerous sectors.
Agents
What our agents do daily
Team management
Our agents monitor team chats. They proactively unblock conflicts, move tacit information into official sources, and boost team morale.
SaaS replacement
Most workflows in companies go through SaaS like Excel, Zendesk and Canva. Our agents help companies consolidate and replace SaaS with agentic workflows that are tailor made for their business.
Security, roles, and agreements
Our agents remember and enforce decisions made online or in meetings as well as written and informal company policies, making sure that work stays safe and on-task.
Our clients
The sectors we work across
Method
Our method refined over numerous FDE engagements
Audit
We do a deep dive into how your teams are organized, choosing one that will become a logical internal champion. We get to know the people, their culture, their processes and their tools.
Agent 1.0
We deploy an initial agent in a matter of days that learns from and with a team. It proactively asks questions, builds a model for how things work, and slowly offers to insert itself into workflows where it can add value.
Grow and maintain
The agent grows through its internal champion, linking logically to other teams through day-to-day work. In this way, the process is bottom-up, never top down, and adoption is a natural outgrowth from collaboration.
