Bengaluru · 18 September 2026

The Ground Truth:Field Lessons from FDEsShipping Enterprise AI

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Listen to the experts. Network with a small group of peers over dinner.

In-Person. 40 Seats. Invite-only.

The Speakers

Kautuk Khare
Palantir
Kautuk Khare
Jayant Tarapure
Sarvam
Jayant Tarapure
Location
Hilton Bangalore Embassy GolfLinks

off Intermediate Ring Road, Embassy Golf Links Business Park, Challaghatta, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560071, India

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Why forward-deployed engineers

Enterprise AI is won or lost in the last mile. The model is the easy part. Getting it into a customer’s workflows, data and stakeholders is where enterprise AI stalls, and exactly what a forward-deployed engineer is built to own.

The last mile

The model ships. The workflow around it never gets built, so nothing reaches production.

Enterprise context

Bespoke data, legacy systems and compliance stall every rollout in a place the docs never mention.

Adoption & trust

Business leaders rarely adopt an AI tool they were simply handed and left to figure out.

The last mile is exactly what a forward-deployed engineer owns.

FDE as a service

You don’t hire the FDE. We run the whole function for you.
The hardest profile in AI, recruited, trained and deployed under your brand, without the six-month hunt.

Hiring one yourself
6+ months

to find, hire and onboard one, if you find them at all.

Rare profile

Part consultant, part senior engineer. Few exist in any market.

With KnackLabs

Trained, vetted and deployable now.

Hired & trained

Senior FDE profile, benched in-house.

Scoped on a call

We map the use cases worth owning.

Live in weeks

Deployed and shipping in production, fast.

Elastic & supported

Scale up or down on demand, fully supported.

Delivery capacity without the hunt.

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Trusted by the teams behind leading AI platforms & enterprise rollouts
50+ enterprise deployments · 15B+ conversations shipped
NPCI
Jio
Paytm
Razorpay
Reliance General Insurance
Haptik
Ola
Adani
Hoichoi
Hunger
Manipal
Postman
StarHub
IndiaFirst Life
Acceldata
Bureau
CashFlo
Decklar
Flamingo
Flipspaces
Hapivet
Interakt
MineGate
Reeco
Space
Titan Email
Verity
eGain
hBits
Office Advisor
OneHealth Assist
Our partners & recognition

Built with the models shaping what’s next.

We work closely with the world's leading AI platforms to bring the right models and capabilities into production.

OpenAI Select Partner
OpenAI

OpenAI models and tools for building intelligent systems and AI-powered workflows.

SarvamLaunch Partner
Sarvam

AI built for India, with capabilities across language, voice and enterprise use cases.

LangChain
LangChain

We run the LangChain community and events in India.

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Flexible delivery model

Start with one. Scale as customer demand grows.

1
STEP 01
Platform enablement

The FDE learns your product, APIs and delivery patterns.

2
STEP 02
Customer deployment

Embedded at your customer, under your brand, owning the rollout.

3
STEP 03
Scale delivery

Add FDEs, specialists or a delivery manager as demand grows.

4
STEP 04
Flexible scaling

Increase or reduce delivery capacity as customer demand shifts.

Proof

Seven years as the delivery arm of a leading conversational AI platform.

Since 2019 we've run implementation teams for Haptik, one of India's leading conversational AI platforms, since acquired by Jio.

5+
concurrent delivery teams
50+
enterprise deployments
15B+
conversations shipped
Standout deploymentsThe work our engineers have shipped

Customer bots at national scale.

Bots across India, Australia, NZ & the UK.

Dedicated team · two years · 11 phases.

Complex enterprise integrations, with Pine Labs.

Why choose KnackLabs for FDEs

Tap any reason to expand it.

Partner-led delivery

Every engagement is partner-led.

Kartik Bansal
Kartik Bansal
Founder & CEO, KnackLabs
linkedin.com/in/kartikbansal

Executive governance · Enterprise AI strategy · Customer success

Ravi
Ravi
VP Engineering, KnackLabs · LangChain Ambassador
linkedin.com/in/ravi

AI architecture · Production engineering · Technical reviews

Every engagement receives executive oversight, architecture reviews and escalation support.

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Questions

The questions platform teams ask us first.

Yes. Your customer sees your brand end to end, from email to deliverables to on-site presence. The FDE represents your platform, not KnackLabs.

No. We add delivery capacity so your product engineers stay on the roadmap. We own the customer rollout; you own the product.

Weeks, not quarters. Our engineers are already trained and vetted, so onboarding is to your platform and APIs, not a six-month hire.